Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.
Writer Douglas Fox and photographer Carolyn Van Houten are spending 15 days aboard the M.V. Ortelius, docked here at the Port of Ushuaia on March 10, 2016, to join scientists conducting studies of humpback and minke whales in the glacial fjords along the Antarctic Peninsula.
China released its thirteenth five-year plan on Saturday, pledging to cut the carbon intensity of its economy to 18% below current levels by 2020, a target that is likely to guide the CO2 cap in its national emissions trading scheme.
Leonardo DiCaprio has won an Academy Award for best actor for his role as a betrayed 19th century frontiersman in The Revenant. The actor used his acceptance speech to warn about the effects of global warming, saying ‘Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take this night for granted’
The global temperature rise must be kept below +2°C by the end of the century to avoid catastrophic climate change.
A new 3D cartoon, Planet Blue, will help parents strike that balance by combining laughter and heart-pounding adventures with a positive attitude about our ability to save the planet.
This week saw an important milestone for the aviation sector's ongoing efficiency drive with a technical, but important, new regulation taking shape at the specialised UN agency dealing with aviation, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
In 2015, the world finally, collectively, decided to take climate change seriously.
United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP21 - is almost upon us. There are high hopes leaders gathering in Paris later this month, will come up with binding agreements to drastically curb carbon emissions to stop catastrophic climate disruption once and for all.
Climate negotiations resume in South Africa today. In the United States, the hot air has yet to stop blowing.
