Global Warming
Climate change is becoming a growing threat to schools, which are being forced to dismiss students because of extreme heat.
As climate change takes hold, extreme heat is becoming a growing problem in cities across the globe. While urban heat waves have a devastating effect on cities' populations, they also highlight grave inequalities in urban life. As global temperatures rise, our cities are facing an existential problem: How can they combat extreme heat?
The world is changing before our eyes. With global warming, human damage and the disintegration of traditions, the threat to planet Earth's most beautiful wonders is very real. Now is the time to witness these precious places before they change forever.
In a survey of more than 30 nations, some 29% of Americans -- the highest percentage of any country -- said they don't worry at all about climate change.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Scientists have chained themselves to a bank, glued their hands to building windows and more in climate protests around the world.
The stark warning comes as Russia’s war further hinders efforts to confront global warming and its mounting impacts.
The celebrity surgeon turned GOP Senate candidate in Pennsylvania is sounding like a seasoned climate ostrich.
“There is no kind way to put it,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.
With countries around the world continually beating their own records for both heat and rainfall year on year, extreme weather is becoming more common. Now, as the planet heats up, natural disasters are on the rise. We have seen events from wildfires to hurricanes increasing in frequency and intensity, but how exactly can our changing climate have an effect on natural disasters?
During an virtual climate summit, President Joe Biden laid out a plan for the United States to combat the climate crisis.