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The report laid out how the changes to climate, environment and human life would be less devastating and risky if the global temperature rise is contained at below 1.5 degree instead of 2 degree Celsius – the existing primary goal of the Paris Agreement.

After working overtime for the last couple of years, scientists volunteering for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have now provided a report summarizing what existing research tells us about a 1.5ºC warmer world.

Senators voting to eventually confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court were forced repeatedly to stop so that protesters could be cleared from the room.

Moments after Collins spoke on the Senate floor announcing her intention to vote for the nominee, Manchin said in a statement he would also vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) – who blocked President Barack Obama’s 2016 nominee to the Supreme Court for almost a year amid widespread Democratic objections – signaled Monday that he would help fill a high-court vacancy if one emerges when...

It’s intended as a guide for policymakers who are aiming to limit temperature rise to the target 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Kavanaugh staunchly denied the allegations, but almost all Senate Democrats voted against his confirmation.

“Net CO2 emissions at the global scale must reach zero by 2050”, said Valerie Masson-Delmotte, a climate scientist at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris and a key participant in drafting the report. The Paris Agreement sets a...

She then said her “greatest fears have been realized”.

It’s also given new definition to the high stakes of November’s election.

The prolonged nomination battle has roiled American politics, disrupting the status quo on Capitol Hill and firing up both Republicans and opposition Democrats a month before the mid-terms.

Sen. Susan Collins defended her support for newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and said she found no corroborating evidence for Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations of sexual assault.

As the tally neared an end, she spoke with Collins, a Democratic friend.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced on Friday afternoon that she will vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, assuring that he will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, despite allegations of sexual assault.

Kavanaugh was sworn in shortly after the Senate voted 50-48 in his favor – a move that cemented the high court’s shift to the right under the Republican leader, who has chosen two of the nine sitting justices.