Climate Change Caused California Drought

A lot has been written about the California drought.

A lot. Sadly, and a bit surprisingly, very little of it touches on the climate connection. Which is too ba...

Vatican Announces Major Summit On Climate Change

Catholic officials announced on Tuesday plans for a landmark climate change-themed conference to be hosted at Vatican later this month, the latest in Pope Francis’ fa...

Global Warming Is Already Clobbering The Amazon

WHEN IT COMES to doing research in the Amazon, Oliver Phillips says the worst part is the sweat bees. Phillips, an ecologist from the University of Leeds who has been ...

Get Ready For An Explosion Of Mining On The Ocean Floor

Last week, noted billionaire Richard Branson issued a call for more comprehensive protection of the Arctic, which in turn prompted some people to say rude things to him. Se...

Citizens For A Clean Economy

SAN JOSÉ – Over the past 20 years, environmental, energy, and climate policies have been decided behind closed doors – with little input from the people ...

Why The Paris Climate Talks Won’t Be Another Copenhagen

The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, Sydney University professor Nick Rowley writes that the 2015 Paris climate talks are not li...

Wisconsin Agency Bans Talk of Climate Change

The state treasurer in Wisconsin declined to explain his views about climate change a day after leading the effort to ban a small state agency from talking about rising tem...

Asia?s Investment Bank: A New Chapter In Sustainable Development

Development banks can help achieve much needed infrastructure development in Asia, but experts from the World Resources Institute caution that development must not come at ...

Is 'Game of Thrones' aiding the global debate on climate change?

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the continent of Westeros in the hit television series "Game of Thrones", humankind is coming under threat from a zombie-like race ...