In a dramatic escalation of tensions outside Citigroup’s New York headquarters, a purported employee of the financial giant unleashed a violent tirade against demonstrators who had been blocking the entrance for months. The incident, which occurred in July 2024, was captured on video and has since sparked widespread outrage. The footage, exclusively obtained by The … Read more
This story was originally published by Grist and is part of State of Emergency, a series exploring how climate disasters impact voting and politics. It was published with support from the CO2 Foundation. As the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Marshall fire approached, Kyle Brown was serving as a city councilman in Louisville, a Denver suburb … Read more
United Nations — The U.N. Secretary-General warned Thursday that the Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, killing nearly a half-million people annually, and he blamed fossil fuels for driving global warming. “Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic — wilting under increasingly deadly heat waves, with temperatures topping 50 degrees … Read more
Extreme early summer heat and record temperatures are being endured across the northern hemisphere this month, following what was the warmest May on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.65 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. May was the 12th consecutive month for which the global … Read more
Two subpopulations of polar bear in Hudson Bay will disappear in the next few decades if the world isn’t able to cap global warming at 2 C, according to a new multi-disciplinary study. The report, published in the journal Nature, Communications Earth and Environment on Thursday, looks at various scenarios of warming and what it … Read more
NEW DELHI: A new study has provided “unambiguous evidence” that the Earth’s inner core began to slow down its rotation in 2010, compared to the planet’s surface. Researchers said that the slowing down could change the length of one day on the Earth by fractions of a second. The Earth’s inner core, a solid sphere … Read more
The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the world used United Nations-approved methods to examine what’s behind last year’s deadly burst of heat. They said even with a faster warming … Read more
PARIS: Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead? The EarthCARE satellite will soon blast off on a mission to find out, aiming to investigate what role clouds could play in the fight against climate change.The collaboration between the European Space Agency and Japan’s JAXA space agency is scheduled to launch … Read more
Representative Image Synopsis As Delhi sizzles at 45 degrees Celsius, many of us tend to overlook the ironic reality that the comfort provided by air conditioners contributes directly to global warming. With the increasing affordability of ACs and more countries, including India, meeting the rising demand for electricity, the use of air conditioners is escalating. … Read more
Most voters don’t know Biden’s climate change policies, poll says – CBS News Watch CBS News Relatively few Americans say they know a lot about President Biden’s initiatives to combat climate change, according to a CBS News poll. Carolyn Kissane, a New York University global affairs associate dean and professor, joins CBS News with more … Read more
