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In yet another blaring call scientists have reported in their latest report on climate change that over the last several years all signs including sea-level rise, planetary warming, shrinking ice sheets and carbon pollution have accelerated....

Amnesty International has honored climate change activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement of school-children with its Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2019 The awards ceremony coincided with events around the world, honoring Fridays...

With leading Democratic candidates making climate change a key national security point in their 2020 campaigns, and Republicans shying away from calling it a U.S. priority, the issue is likely to remain divisive in the national...

Hurricanes buffeting the U.S. with ferocious winds and downpours, fires raging close to urban centers, fog and smog covering cities in South Asia and China, flooding and sizzling heat in Western Europe, tsunamis hitting Japan and...

The year 2019 has begun ominously with record chilly winter in North America making Chicago colder than parts of the Mars and one of the hottest summers baking Australian cities. Between the two extreme scenarios have...

A Pakistani-American teenager Mishka Banuri has won the Brower Youth Award in recognition of her efforts to spotlight climate change issues in the traditionally conservative state of Utah. The 17-year-old from Salt Lake City helped craft...

Rainbow Dream: A rainbow forms over the Barmsee lake in Mittenwald, Germany Photo Credit: Maximilian Ziegler / WMO / UN We may forget what Nature has given us but it’s always there for us to see,...

If the unusually high October temperatures, Hurricane Michael devastation in Florida and Tsunami ravages in Indonesia do not scare you enough to act, here is a climate change horror card that has deprived humanity of 1.3...

Photo: WMO/Alfred Lee via UN. Smog in Beijing China Climate change and air pollution cause more than 12.6 million deaths a year, taking an unprecedented toll on affected communities emotionally and economically. The United Nations has called air...

Photo:  Jessie Eastland/Wikimedia Common South Asia may not be the only region to experience climatic catastrophes but it certainly seems to be the region at risk. A UN weather expert has confirmed fears that this week’s...