In the proposal released Monday, the Vermont senator vowed to impose a carbon tax on the country's worst polluters and create a 100 percent clean energy system.
The tech giant's latest investment would add 842 megawatts to its clean energy capacity -- boosting its renewable energy capacity to 2 gigawatts.
Emissions and rising temperatures are already having a devastating impact on the continent, where nations lack resources to confront the impacts of climate change.
According to a new survey, over the past decade, climate change has forced a large number of people from three Pacific island nations -- Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru -- to flee their countries.
According to a new report by Oxfam, the poorest half of the world — approximately 3.5 billion people — are responsible for only 10 percent of all carbon emissions.
Tuesday's resolutions to block President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan were approved largely along party lines.
Ahead of the COP 21 conference, scheduled to begin Monday, activists want world leaders to do more to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit warming.
Japan, one of the world’s top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases, has pledged to assist emerging economies to the tune of $10.6 billion a year by 2020.
U.S. President Barack Obama is championing urgent measures on climate change, ahead of a global meet in Paris.
With terrorism a more urgent concern ahead of the Paris climate conference, global leaders may have more resolve than ever to agree on aggressive action.
A new study looking at the impact of the shrinking snowpacks over the northern hemisphere suggests that over 2 billion people could suffer from water shortage.
With temperatures soaring in the Persian Gulf, trending traditional buildings might help offer some relief to people.
Unless the world adopts fast, inclusive and smart development, over 100 million people will be living in extreme poverty by 2030.
Environmental activists and Democrats had been hoping the president would reject the project before global climate talks in Paris this month.
Diamond dust was proposed as an alternative to sulfates to scatter sunlight.
Australia, the world's largest coal exporter, said it will not stop development of coal mines despite a call by prominent citizens to curb the country's role in global warming.
"This blue planet is our only home and Tibet is its roof," the exiled Buddhist leader said Tuesday, urging leaders to frame a "meaningful” climate change agreement.
The Oslo city council plans to reduce auto traffic throughout the city by 20 percent by 2019 and 30 percent by 2030.
Donald Trump prefers global warming to cold streaks in October.
Only 16 percent of Americans now ascribe to the view that global warming is not real, according to a survey from the University of Michigan.
Rachel Kyte, the World Bank special envoy for climate change, said a $100 billion limit on climate aid to developing nations was "picked out of the air."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who does not believe climate change is real, took to Twitter Sunday to criticize President Obama's stance on climate leadership.