political correspondent Peter Schwartzstein offers a vital and riveting account of how climate change is already pulling societies apart, feeding violence across the globe. Each chapter presents a ...

Rappler is covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP29 happening in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. Azerbaijan is set to oversee the annual negotiations among ...

It’s report card season for climate change. Each year, the United Nations takes stock of whether countries are on track to cut carbon emissions and limit global warming. The grade this year ...

Climate change has long been a core priority for Democrats in national elections, with the party's voters much more likely than Republicans to believe that climate change is real and caused by ...

Climate change also exerts significant strains on health systems, simultaneously increasing demand for health services while impairing the system’s ability to respond. Furthermore, the climate crisis ...

Now, after a year of record emissions, the United Nations is warning that there are just 10 years to dramatically change policies to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. In a new report ...

The annual Emissions Gap report, which takes stock of countries' promises to tackle climate change compared with what is needed, finds the world faces as much as 3.1 C (5.6 F) of warming above pre ...

Plastics Pollution Worsen the Impacts of All Planetary Boundaries Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean ...

The negative effects of climate change are being felt in some of the most extreme ways by people living in places affected by armed conflict and other violence, who are ill-equipped to cope with and ...

Climate change refers to a statistically defined change in the average and/or variability of the climate system, this includes the atmosphere, the water cycle, the land surface, ice and the living ...

Through complex markets, nations can bank trees to lower their greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to use fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change. But those forests are burning up.