World Sep 23 AI firm leaders tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or, at least, its people.
Science Sep 16 Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica in 47 years, satellites show A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from below and the sides.
Science Sep 12 Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Niño might bring record slow storm season On Saturday, 2026 set a record for the longest a season has begun without a storm that has reached winds of 74 mph to qualify as a hurricane — at least in the satellite era, said Nick Novella, a meteorologist…
Nation Aug 10 Contiguous U.S. broke its record for hottest month ever in July, NOAA says Although it was unusually cool in Alaska, hotter-than-normal conditions blanketed the Lower 48, with the most excessive heat in the Mountain West, Southwest, Northern Plains and Southeast.
World Jul 31 Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate Climate change's fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked this week's devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe's burning the past eight years, two new studies conclude.
Science Jul 10 'Not a run-of-the-mill El Nino.' Forecasters predict historic strength It should rank among the most intense El Ninos since the weather agency started tracking them in 1950.
Science May 28 Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
Science Mar 28 Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest winter level as unprecedented heat shatters records globally Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.
Science Mar 24 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' as record-smashing heat spreads And it's not going away for awhile.
Science Mar 20 The Southwest smashing heat records in March 'is what climate change looks like' It's more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds.