Global warming

Millions of students, workers and scientists came together at the global climate strikes last week.

Hundreds of students demonstrated against climate change in Syntagma Square, central Athens, as part of the global 'Fridays for the Future' student movement.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison dismissed criticism of his country's climate policy yesterday and hinted that the young Swede, Greta Thunberg, was manipulated.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Morrison said Australia was fighting climate change and rejected "any insinuation to the contrary."

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday, in New York, that climate change is a global challenge and showed that Romania's national strategy on this issue was designed with the aim to shape an economy resilient to climate change, with low carbon dioxide emissions, able of integrating climate policies through smart economic growth.

Two days after the climate summit failed to deliver on serious promises to reduce greenhouse emissions, the UN warned today that global warming is devastating the oceans and ice on the Earth in a way that directly threatens the humanity, AFP reported.

Scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona have come to this conclusion, quoted by NOVA TV. 

Global warming will accelerate in the future, scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona say, Science Daily reported.

Scientists warn of serious threats looming over oceans, polar regions and highlands.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Russia's decision to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement, describing it as remarkable news.

Earlier, it became known that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had signed a cabinet resolution to accept the Paris Climate Agreement.

School students from Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo took part in the "Fridays for Future" protests this Friday, joining millions of people from all around the world as part of the global protest against inaction on climate change.

People around the world have called on world leaders to take urgent action at the UN Climate Action Summit to avert an environmental catastrophe.
The protests are planned in about 150 countries and were inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who will lead the rally in New York.
Organizers said 300,000 people gathered around Australia, the BBC reported.