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Science Nov 07

Carbon pollution from high-flying rich in private jets soars

“The problem is that the 26,000 aircraft and the individuals using them will say ‘We are just a small group. We are not relevant in terms of emissions.’ But everybody else will look at the small group and say, 'Look…

World Oct 24

World on pace for significantly more warming without immediate climate action, UN report warns

The report authors warned that major cuts to the burning of coal, oil and gas are needed now if there's any hope of keeping the 1.5 goal alive.

Science Oct 08

‘If meteorologists could stop hurricanes, we would.’ Here’s why humans still can’t control the weather

Scientists say hurricanes are far too powerful for humans to try and control their paths — and climate change is providing more fuel than ever for storms like Helene and Milton.

Science Oct 06

WATCH: AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in physics

Hinton, who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.

Nation Oct 02

Why hurricanes like Helene are deadly when they strike and kill years later

Researchers say hurricanes contribute to more American deaths than car accidents or all the nation's wars.

Science Sep 04

The world is producing 57 million tons of plastic pollution per year, new study finds

Researchers say the world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year — enough to fill New York City’s Central Park as high as the Empire State Building — and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest…

Nation Jul 23

Inland counties top disaster list as extreme weather becomes more frequent

Despite the common belief that America's hurricane or earthquake prone coasts pose the greatest risk for climate-related disasters, the highest concentration of federally declared disasters is actually found in states like Kentucky or Vermont.

World Jun 27

Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned nearly 30,000 square miles of forest, spewed heat-trapping gas into the air

Canadian wildfires pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air last year than India did by burning fossil fuels.

Science Apr 08

Carbon dioxide, methane levels in the atmosphere hit record highs last year

Both greenhouse gases jumped 5.5% over the past decade of souped-up climate change. The third biggest human-caused greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, also spiked to a record high.

Science Mar 27

Timekeepers may subtract a second from clocks as soon as 2029 as planet spins slightly faster

Ice melting at both of Earth’s poles has been counteracting the planet's burst of speed and is likely to have delayed the global second of reckoning by about three years.

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