Amid historic flooding in Venice, Italy, and catastrophic bushfires decimating Australia's koala population, Oxford has named its 2019 Word of the Year "climate emergency." The historical dictionary ...

Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Climate emergency is the 2019 Oxford Word of the Year, highlighting the growing evidence of climate change, the efforts by citizens to reduce their own carbon footprints, and the increased demands of ...

WASHINGTON—It’s time again for broadcasters to prep for a national emergency alert test. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that the 2019 National Periodic Test is scheduled for ...

It’s official — the 2019 word of the year is “climate emergency,” according to Oxford Dictionaries. In an indication of the phrase’s cultural impact, the organization said “climate emergency” was once ...