The Paris Accord, meant to join the world in a massive effort to stop or slow global warming was signed by nearly 200 nations. The only hold outs were Iran, Yemen and Libya. The US has just joined that list.
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports on the United States’ withdrawal from the Global Climate Alliance under President Donald Trump. This action aligns the U.S., the world’s largest oil producer,
For a second time, Donald Trump promises to pull the US from a global agreement that most countries are party to.
Donald Trump, for a second time, has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, which puts us in the company of Iran, Libya and Yemen.
Trump is expected to sign more than 50 executive orders -- and possibly more than 100 -- on Day 1 of his presidency. The expected acts are related to a wide range of issues, from the U.S.-Mexico border to gender and the renaming of Denali in Alaska. He referenced many of these plans during his inauguration speech.
Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that critics such as President Trump claim, but it hasn't kept the world from overheating, either. Here's a closer look.
Among President Donald Trump's flurry of Jan. 20 executive orders was one promising to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Click to read.
Joining Iran, Libya and Yemen, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order pulling Washington out of the Paris climate change agreement.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain, under the unifying slogan: “The people want to bring down the regime.” While some countries experienced ...
The Pacific nation’s Attorney-General Arnold Loughman, who led Vanuatu’s landmark International Court of Justice climate case at The Hague last month, said the withdrawal represented an “undeniable setback” for international action on global warming.
While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences of other Arab countries more than a decade ago. In the winter of 2010, an outbreak of protests in Tunisia spread across the region, toppling several regimes in what became known as the Arab Uprisings.
Germany's Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, late on Thursday extended four overseas missions of the country's armed forces, just weeks before the parliamentary election on February 23. The German Navy will continue to participate in the European Union military mission in the Red Sea aimed at protecting the important maritime shipping route