Science Nov 07 The magic 1.5: What’s behind climate talks’ key elusive goal One phrase, really just a number, dominates climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland: The magic and elusive 1.5. That stands for the international goal of trying to limit future warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. It’s…
World Nov 05 Young climate activists raising voices but fear going unheard at COP26 The generation of young people who will inherit a warmer future is telling the generation that caused carbon pollution to clean up its mess. But they fear that message isn't getting through.
World Nov 01 WATCH: Queen urges leaders to act quickly on climate at COP26 Queen Elizabeth II has welcomed world leaders to the U.N. climate summit in a pre-recorded video message, saying "the time for words has now moved to the time for action."…
World Nov 01 World leaders ramped up rhetoric ahead of international climate negotiations World leaders are turning up the heat and resorting to end-of-the-world rhetoric in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.
World Nov 01 5 top issues for the climate summit Transparency, carbon trading and methane are some of the big topics the talks will tackle.
Science Oct 29 A look at the top issues for this year’s UN climate summit This year’s U.N. climate summit in Glasgow renews an urgent question to the international community: Can the world come together to confront the common enemy of global warming before it’s too late?…
Science Sep 02 AP EXPLAINER: How Ida can be so deadly 1,000 miles from landfall Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made Ida deadly and devastating in the New York and New Jersey area even though the weakened storm made landfall more than 1,000 miles away.
Nation Aug 29 EXPLAINER: Ida similar to Katrina, but stronger, smaller Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous and perhaps scarier sequel to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there’s a few still-to-come twists that could make Ida nastier in some ways, but not quite as…
Science Aug 13 July was hottest month on record, NOAA says "This is climate change," said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann. "It is an exclamation mark on a summer of unprecedented heat, drought, wildfires and flooding."…
Politics Aug 04 This year’s summer of climate extremes hits wealthier places The founder of a disaster database maintained at a Belgian University says, "It is not only a poor country problem, it's now very obviously a rich country problem."…