Tag: climate change

  • Massive environmental march a prelude to U.N. meeting

    Massive environmental march a prelude to U.N. meeting

    The alarm has sounded for years. Now a draft U.N. report on the environment warns that global warming is here, caused by people, unquestionably dangerous and possibly irreversible.

  • Climate change imperils major U.S. landmarks

    Climate change imperils major U.S. landmarks

    The president marked the centennial of Harriet Tubman’s death a year ago by designating 25,000 acres on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as a new national monument. By 2050, if sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay continue to rise at twice the global rate because of climate change, the monument to the legendary abolitionist could be largely…