Hot planet on a path of ‘suicidal emissions’

The U.N. secretary-general prodded nations to act faster and more decisively to combat climate change by altering their “path of suicidal emissions.”

By Arete News - September 10, 2018

A glacier field near the North Ridge of K2 in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (AN/John Heilprin)

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