President-elect Donald Trump’s stance on global warming spells trouble for the country’s carbon footprint.
The agreement will enter into force on Friday, signalling a true global effort to tackle the climate challenge.
The Republican feels restoring traditional industries will ‘make America great again’, while the Democrat envisions an environmentally-friendly US.
It is immensely encouraging that, less than a year after its adoption at the closing of COP21, the ratification of the Paris Agreement has taken place
Armed conflicts break out as a result of natural disasters, and societies with pre-existing factions are the most at risk of falling apart.
Earth blasts through more heat records, while research shows governments are not ambitious enough to stop catastrophic warming.
April has gone one further, with the most abrupt increase in temperature.
Home cookstoves are the second largest contributor to black carbon emissions globally, behind forest grassland and agricultural fires.
Rising temperatures would make the Hajj dangerous for people with health conditions, or those not at the peak of their physical ability.
Profound changes in weather means yields are lower, tea’s taste is altered and income is reduced.
The melting Arctic ice is forcing them to swim far further than usual to find food, causing a loss of body fat and threatening the lives of cubs.
Unless good governance is demanded by citizens, it will not be consistently supplied by authorities, write Yarik Turianskyi and Steven Gruzd.
We knew that 2017 was the year to put the brakes on activities that cause global warming, but we didn’t do enough – welcome to the future.
You might be tired of climate change phrases, doomsayers and so much hysteria and hyperbole it feels clichéd, but the planet’s not getting any cooler.
Evolutionary responses favour real-time threats, not those that take place on an extended timescale, writes Ruth Greenspan Bell.
Famous for complementing Mediterranean and Mexican cooking, the herb could now be a key ingredient in lowering global greenhouse gas emissions.
Earth is going to slowly burn up and gangs will be key to survival, so form a clan and gather all the canned food, seeds, water and weapons you can.
Research out this week shows that the recent temperature record-breaking years are caused by human endeavours that drive global warming.
The margin by which 2015 beat the previous year has been flagged by three weather agencies as cause for great concern.
If donors help states with which they have links rather than those most vulnerable to climate change, it will increase poverty and thus migration.
But developed nations can play a big role in finding cheaper ways to produce clean energy.
Paris talks failed the most vulnerable, but that failure could be fixed as the world’s governments have at least agreed to head in the same direction.
A cacophony of climate deniers is trying to fool us into thinking we should not be planning for the future. Here’s how to spot one, writes Sipho Kings
As with all South Africa’s good intentions, the ambitious goals are consistently undermined by a lack of implementation.
South Africa has the means to mitigate climate change. It just needs the will.
The critical climate conference kicks off with world leaders calling for an ambitious – but fair – agreement to lower carbon emissions.
Using Africa’s national parks, scientists have garnered essential information which will help refine their understanding of Earth’s climate.
Carbon dioxide dramatically lowers cognitive ability, a hazard found in office spaces especially.
Average temperature and humidity rises in the Gulf will be too extreme for humans to continue living in the area by 2070, according to researchers.
Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, SA’s delegate to a summit drawing up a global climate pact, says the proposed plan ignores the needs of poor countries.
Data from NASA shows that last month was the second-hottest September ever recorded, with the last 12 months being the hottest on record.
South Africa could create a million jobs and cut emissions, but the government is ignoring a societal proposal that tells them how to do so.