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Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Getty Images photo: Jit Chattopadhyay/Pacific Press/LightRocket The tech industry is playing a growing role in fighting climate change, from zero-carbon commitments…
View More Big Tech takes the climate change lead
COPENHAGEN • A massive chunk of ice – larger than the city of Paris, or about one-sixth the size of Singapore – has broken off…
View More Massive chunk of Greenland glacier crashes into the sea
BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Facebook on Tuesday (Sept 15) launched a climate science information centre to elevate credible sources on climate change, as critics question…
View More Facebook launches climate science info centre amid fake news criticism
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unsuccessfully pressed President Trump on Monday to acknowledge that climate change is making wildfires worse across much of the West Coast.…
View More As fires ravage California, Trump gives his climate-change solution: ‘It’ll start getting cooler’
SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) – Across a hellish landscape of smoke and ash, authorities in Oregon, California and Washington state battled to contain mega-wildfires Sunday (Sept…
View More As wildfires burn out of control, America's West Coast faces the unimaginable
LONDON (REUTERS) – The planet is showing signs it’s in peril. In recent weeks, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the US West, torrential…
View More Wild weather this year shows growing impact of climate change, scientists say
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – BHP Group will focus on cutting its operational emissions by 30 per cent by the 2030 financial year from 2020 levels, and…
View More BHP lays down goals to cut own emissions by 30% by FY2030
BRUSSELS (BLOOMBERG) – August 2020 will go down as the fourth-warmest August on record worldwide, with above average summertime heat in the United States and…
View More Extreme heat made last month the 4th-hottest August on record
TRIENT, SWITZERLAND (REUTERS) – Climate activists gathered at Switzerland’s Trient glacier on Sunday (Sept 6) to urge authorities to take action to reduce carbon dioxide…
View More Climate activists gather at Trient glacier mourn Switzerland's receding ice
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China has seen faster temperature increases and rising sea levels than the global average rate over the past few decades, and experienced…
View More China is heating up faster than the global average, data shows
LONDON (REUTERS) – A platform of ice surrounding Antarctica measuring more than 900,000 sq km is at risk of collapse as the effects of climate…
View More Giant Antarctic ice shelves facing fracture risk, study shows
PARIS (AFP) – Long-dormant viruses brought back to life; the resurgence of deadly and disfiguring smallpox; a dengue or zika “season” in Europe. These could…
View More How climate change could bring back long-dormant viruses
PARIS (AFP) – The unprecedented fall in greenhouse gas emissions from lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic will do “nothing” to slow climate change without a…
View More Lockdown emissions fall will have 'no effect' on climate
MUNICH, GERMANY (AFP) – German giant BMW on Monday (July 27) said executive pay would in future be tied to meeting strict targets aimed at…
View More BMW vows to tie executive pay to climate goals