New global solar energy this year could surpass 2016's record
LONDON (Reuters) - New global solar capacity will continue to grow this year, after lower costs drove it to record levels in 2016, and could surpass 80 gigawatts (GW), Europe's solar industry forecast...
View ArticleAhead of Trump decision to abandon Paris pact, Indian prime minister says...
BERLIN (AP) — India's prime minister says it would be a "crime" to spoil the environment for future generations as the world awaits a decision on U.S. climate policy.President Donald Trump says he will...
View ArticleThe Great Barrier Reef has lost 29% of its coral — and current efforts can't...
The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef's...
View ArticleThese 20 images of Earth over the past 70 years show why countries signed the...
President Trump is expected to announce a US withdrawal from the landmark Paris Agreement on Thursday afternoon. The international accord, which was signed by every country except Nicaragua and Syria,...
View ArticleHere is the evidence of climate change
Paris (AFP) - As President Donald Trump prepares to announce whether he will pull America out of the 2015 Paris Agreement sanctioned by his predecessor and nearly 200 other world leaders, the stakes on...
View ArticleThe Bannon wing of the White House looks poised to win another fight
Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, and Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, have reportedly been waging war against the Paris climate deal and those...
View ArticleHere's what Earth might look like in 100 years — if we're lucky
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his intent to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord."We're getting out, but we will start to negoatiate to see if we can make a deal that is fair,"...
View ArticleTrump is pulling the US out of the Paris agreement — here’s what that could...
President Trump has announced his intention to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.If the US succeeds in withdrawing from the accord (a process that will take years), the consequences for...
View ArticleTrump just pulled out of the Paris Agreement — but the US has contributed...
President Trump has announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, the 2015 international accord by which 195 nations agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent...
View Article'Call his bluff': Mark Cuban tells Democrats how to punch back after Trump...
The billionaire businessman Mark Cuban tweeted some advice for Democrats after President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.Cuban...
View ArticleObama slams Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, says...
Former US President Barack Obama on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, implying his decision would hurt rather than help the...
View ArticleThe reasoning behind Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement
In a speech in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump laid out his reasons for pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, an international effort to reduce global...
View ArticleParis Climate Agreement architect: This was a 'vacuous political melodrama'
Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement was a political message, according to Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate...
View Article5 claims Trump used to justify pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement —...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would begin pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The accord, signed by all but two countries, aims to keep the world from...
View ArticleThe optimistic, pessimistic, and ultra-pessimistic scenarios following...
Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a lower-carbon future.U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007,...
View Article'I'll ask it one more time': Kellyanne Conway won't say if Trump believes...
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Kellyanne Conway refused to answer whether or not Trump thinks climate change is a hoax. Following is a transcript of the video.George Stephanopoulos: Does...
View ArticleA giant crack in Antarctic ice is 'days or weeks' from breaking off a...
A giant crack in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves is about to break off a Delaware-size block of ice.The crack in the ice shelf, called Larsen C, has forked toward the Southern Ocean and is...
View ArticlePittsburgh has unexpectedly become a climate battleground after Trump ditched...
With one sentence, President Donald Trump placed Pittsburgh at the center of a post-Paris climate battle."I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," he said during his Thursday...
View ArticleOne chart shows how solar energy growth is skyrocketing compared to predictions
In early 2016, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projected that, starting that year, the world would add just 50 gigawatts of added solar energy capacity per year. And in 2017, solar's growth rate...
View ArticleA conservative think tank has mailed a book challenging climate change to...
Conservative think tank The Heartland Institute has been mailing tens of thousands of US science teachers a book that challenges the scientific consensus on climate change, Buzzfeed and The New York...
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