Environment
UN Kicks Off Major Climate Change Effort
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has kicked off a major United Nations push for progress on what he calls the defining issue...
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50 US Coal Power Plants Have Shut Down Under Trump
In total, 289 have closed since 2010, comprising 40 percent of the U.S.'s coal power capacity, while an additional 241...
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‘Transformative Change’ Necessary to Prevent Mass Extinction: Major UN Report
A landmark UN report found humans are causing a rapid acceleration in species loss that could ultimately threaten civilization and...
Read moreOne Million Species Risk Extinction Due to Humans: Draft UN Report
The pace of loss "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the...
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Food Can Be the Key to a Long-Term Climate Change Solution
John Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, provided the key to a long-term climate change solution:...
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Combating Energy Poverty: The Rise of Off-Grid Energy in Africa
On any given day, lobbyists and business people in offices on Washington’s K street utilize the same amount of energy...
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Germany Reports First Greenhouse Emissions Fall in Five Years
Last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth government officially gave up on the goal of slashing output by 40 percent by...
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Thousands of German Teens Join Thunberg’s Climate Fight
Thousands of German youths went on strike from school on Friday, joining Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg who has taken...
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Jury Begins Deliberations in ‘Roundup’ Cancer Trial
"Monsanto knew" its weedkiller Roundup was carcinogenic yet sold it anyway, the lawyer for an American retiree said on the...
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‘No Planet B:’ Tens of Thousands Join Global Youth Demo for Climate
Students flooded into the streets around the world carrying placards reading: "There is no planet B," "You're destroying our future"...
Read moreYouth to Demand Actual Change During Global Climate Strikes
Students from more than 100 countries will miss school to show lawmakers and world leaders how serious they are about...
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Air Pollution Deaths Are Double Earlier Estimates: Study
On average, a toxic cocktail of pollutants from vehicles, industry and agriculture shortens the lives of those who die prematurely...
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Plastic in Crosshairs at UN Environment Forum
The U.N. wants individual countries to sign up to "significantly" reduce plastic production, including a phasing out of single-use plastics...
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Climate Change is Projected to Greatly Worsen Refugee Crises. Is the World Prepared?
“The world has not been able to accomodae the few thousand Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe. Therefore, the fate of...
Read moreSwedish Climate Activist Brings Major Youth Protest to Paris
"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children," Thunberg...
Read moreSoutheast Asia Urgently Needs to Put Brakes on Tailpipe Pollution
Rapid urbanization across Asia has brought with it a severe public health crisis. Less than 8 percent of the continent’s population is...
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The Green New Deal: A Generational Fight Over the Future of America
With a Green New Deal proposal introduced in Congress, The Globe Post spoke to Aracely Jimenez-Hudis, a spokesperson for the...
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Captured: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Took Control of the EPA
As scientists continue to warn of the looming existential threat to human civilization climate change poses, Trump and his EPA...
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Thousands of Young People Rally for Climate Action in Belgium
Thousands of young people rallied in Belgium to demand action on climate change, part of a wave aimed at intensifying...
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Climate Change in 2019: Reasons for Renewed Optimism
As the climate change problem turns itself into a climate change emergency, the year 2019 may actually see a turning...
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