President Trump is telling aides he is ready to pull out of the Paris climate deal, officials tell TIME, but the White House is still working out the details. Especially in this Administration, nothing is final until everything is final, but the move in that direction is sending shockwaves around the world. Democrats and even […]
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Trump Delays Decision On G7 Summit’s Paris Climate Agreement
President Trump announced on Twitter he will delay a decision on whether the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accords until next week, a move that led leaders of Group of Seven (G7) countries to declare the U.S. is “not in a position to join the consensus” around the agreement. I will make my […]
Stephen Hawking Says Doomsday For Earth Is Only 100 Years Away
We gotta get out of this place. (“This place” being the Earth that we all know and love). Stephen Hawking has come up with yet another doomsday prediction for humans, this time giving us just 100 years to skedaddle. Professor Hawking’s apocalyptic predictions began in 2015, when he mentioned in a Reddit Ask Me Anything […]
Columbia Devastated, Over 400 Dead Or Missing
BOGOTA, Colombia — An avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers tore through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes, sweeping away cars and killing at least 193 unsuspecting residents. The incident triggered by a sudden, heavy rainstorm happened around midnight in Mocoa, a provincial capital of about 40,000 tucked between mountains […]
Saudi Arabia Investing 50 Billion In Move Towards Renewable Energy
Saudi Arabia is kicking off its $50 billion renewable-energy push as the world’s top crude exporter turns to solar and wind power to temper domestic oil use in meeting growing energy demand. Bidders seeking to qualify to build 700 megawatts of wind and solar power plants should submit documents by March 20, and those selected […]
China Surges Past America In Green Energy
China installed almost three times more wind power than the U.S. last year, continuing its clean-energy investment blitz to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase air quality. China led new global wind-power installations with 23.3 gigawatts, compared with 8.2 gigawatts in second-place U.S., according to a report published Friday by the Global Wind Energy Council. […]
2016 Hottest Year On Record For 3rd Straight Year
The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, […]
Trump Continues To Claim No One Knows If Climate Change Is Real
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, Trump said he’s “very open-minded” on whether climate change is […]
Is Jurassic Park closer than we think? Scientists discover dinosaur trapped in amber
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists. Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen, the size of a dried apricot, at an amber market in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border. The remarkable piece was destined to end up as a […]
Gore Meets With Trump About Climate Change
As Donald Trump continues to indicate that he might be willing to change his position on climate change, which he has long called a “hoax,” the president-elect met Monday with former vice president Al Gore, who has become a prominent activist in the fight against global warming. “I had a lengthy and very productive session […]
Stephen Hawking: Asteroid Collision Wiping Out Humanity by 3016?!
Are humans doomed? Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, thinks so. Hawking said that humanity will only have 1,000 years left, with an impending asteroid collision possibly wiping out humans by 3016. During a speech at the Oxford University Union, Hawking noted that climate change, nuclear weapons and genetically engineered viruses could pose a threat to […]
In Spite Of The Science, Trump Still Thinks Climate Change Is A Hoax
In an interview with the New York Times last week, President-elect Donald Trump appeared open to accepting “some connectivity” between human activity and climate change. But the man who claimed numerous times that climate change is “an expensive hoax,” “a concept…created by and for the Chinese” and “bullshit” still believes it is “a bunch of bunk,” according to […]