CLIMATE CHANGE

Youth activists are emboldened to make our voices heard because our future hangs in the balance.

An environmental scientist who is admired by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn’t like Elon Musk’s plan to colonize Mars. According to the scientist, the SpaceX CEO is delusional for wanting to leave Earth.

Scientists are now doing their best to understand how climate change leads to the transformation of a lush forest into "ghost forests." These forests are now occupied by marshes, wherein forestal trees would not grow again.

Climate protesters from Sydney to New York blocked roads Monday, sparking hundreds of arrests, as two weeks of civil disobedience demanding immediate action to save the Earth from "extinction" kicked off.The demonstrations, triggered by the group Extinction Rebellion, were mostly limited to a few hundred people in each city, far from the size of last month's massive Greta Thunberg-inspired protests.

Extinction Rebellion protesters are warning of an environmental apocalypse and demanding governments take drastic action to tackle the climate emergency

Some Mercedes-Benz owners in Germany with older vehicles may be eligible for an upgraded exhaust system, as German cities are now allowed to enact bans on heavily polluting diesel cars.

Human beings are no match against Mother Nature when she decides to vent her wrath as in Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 or the tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. The only “defense” against these events is to get out of their way by leaving the area or seeking higher ground to evade floodwaters.

Swedish climate change warrior Greta Thunberg traveled on a Tesla Model 3 loaned her by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in her speaking tour of the U.S. and Canada.

Her fiery speech was the climax of a trip across the Atlantic in early August and another step in her fight to address climate change.

Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.Crumbling ice sheets, marine heatwaves, melting glaciers, ocean dead zones, thawing permafrost -- a raft of impacts on sea and ice are decimating fish stocks, lifting seas, depleting fresh water stores, and incubating superstorms that will ravage some cities annually by mid-century.

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a Climate Crisis Committee joint hearing on September 18, 2019 in Washington

Carbon emissions are high on the agenda at the International Civil Aviation Organization's annual conference in Montreal

The worst banker in the world when it comes to funding the climate crisis is JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

Oil giant Saudi Arabia is blocking the adoption of a major UN report on oceans and climate change by challenging an earlier UN assessment highlighting the need to slash carbon emissions

While many applauded the young activist for calling the world's government to the carpet, she has faced just as sharp criticism about how educated she is on the subject.

Greta Thunberg (L) and French activist Iris Duquesne (C) attend a press conference where 16 children from across the world presented their official complaint on the climate crisis to the United Nations

Youth Climate activist Greta Thunberg accused world leaders of betraying her generation through their inaction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Map of climate protests planned during Global Climate Action Week (Sept 20-27)

Almost 90 companies have signed a UN climate pact ahead of a summit on global warming on Monday.

Pacific Islanders marched in Sydney in one of the first protests in a global day of action on climate change

Teen activist Greta Thunberg told AFP she hoped worldwide youth strikes would mark a turning point in the fight against climate change