By Rachel Hubbard Tuesday, the city of Paris has said it will explore the possibilities of suing the fossil fuel industry. In response to the city’s recent climate damage including massive recent floods, Paris is considering taking this action following in the footsteps of New York and other U.S. cities. Paris made the commitment to […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s address to the United Nations at the Paris climate agreement signing ceremony in New York City on April 22. Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, for the honor to address this body once more. And thanks to the distinguished climate leaders assembled here today who are ready to take action. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meeting […]
With the possible prospect of the world warming dangerously and uncontrollably, half of one degree Celsius may sound like a negligible temperature change unlikely to make much difference to life on Earth. But scientists say 0.5 C could make a crucial difference in some regions—particularly in developing countries in the tropics—that are already at great […]
The high-level United Nations event today, which marks the first day of signing period for the Paris climate agreement, is set for record participation by nearly 170 countries. Watch the Paris climate agreement signing ceremony at the United Nations in New York City live as world leaders sign the historic deal. The program has already started and will run until […]
By The Climate Mobilization When establishment civil society groups and politicians gather Friday to cheer the signing of the Paris agreement as a “historic” achievement that will avert global catastrophe, a group of climate emergency protesters will stage a “mass death” and collapse scenario outside the United Nations to demonstrate the reality of the future […]
An unprecedented number of countries will be gathering in New York City tomorrow to sign the Paris climate deal. After significant progress was made this past December in agreeing the landmark deal, more than 167 countries—including past climate villains Iran, Canada and Australia and polluting giants China, the U.S. and the EU—are set to sign the […]
By Kathleen Rogers On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans hit the streets to protest the environmental effects of more than 100 years of uncontrolled fossil-fueled industrial development. It was the first Earth Day. What was intended to be a college campus teach-in soon spread to every community and city across the United States. It […]
The U.S. and China will sign the Paris agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day they can do so, Presidents Obama and Xi announced Thursday. Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama at a press conference following their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, […]
By Greg M. Schwartz Despite having had a heart transplant three years before, Lonnie Thompson ascended to 22,000 feet and braved -35 degree F temperatures on a mountain peak in far western China in 2015 to do his job as an ice-core paleoclimatologist. The renowned professor from the Ohio State University has extracted and examined […]
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