• China announces new climate goal to cut its world-leading emissions

    China announces new climate goal to cut its world-leading emissions

    Sep 24, 2025 08:27 PM EDT

    ... that the world’s second largest economy, which has long seen its carbon pollution soar, will finally reduce the emissions of the gases that cause global warming and extreme weather. It came as more than 100 world leaders gathered to talk of increased urgency and the need for stronger efforts ...

  • This key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web is threatened by warming oceans, study finds

    This key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web is threatened by warming oceans, study finds

    Sep 08, 2025 09:17 PM EDT

    ... and fisheries are real. WATCH: Humans have seen a tiny fraction of the deep sea. Researchers are trying to change that “We know what drives global warming. There is no debate among the scientific community,” Ribalet said. “We need to curb greenhouse gas emissions.” He hopes the findings bring more ...

  • Rising floodwaters in Pakistan's Punjab province put 2 million people at risk

    Rising floodwaters in Pakistan's Punjab province put 2 million people at risk

    Aug 31, 2025 04:49 PM EDT

    LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is dealing with the biggest flood in its history, a senior official said Sunday, as water levels of rivers rise to all-time highs. Global warming has worsened monsoon rains this year in Pakistan, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate ...

  • North Carolina's Outer Banks could see dangerous surf and winds from Hurricane Erin

    North Carolina's Outer Banks could see dangerous surf and winds from Hurricane Erin

    Aug 18, 2025 08:52 PM EDT

    ... Virgin Islands with heavy rains and tropical-storm winds on Sunday. Scientists have linked the rapid intensification of hurricanes in the Atlantic to climate change. Global warming is causing the atmosphere to hold more water vapor and is spiking ocean temperatures, and warmer waters give hurricanes fuel to unleash more ...

  • Flash floods triggered by torrential rains kill at least 176 people in India and Pakistan

    Flash floods triggered by torrential rains kill at least 176 people in India and Pakistan

    Aug 15, 2025 12:09 PM EDT

    ... World Weather Attribution, a network of international scientists, found rainfall in Pakistan from June 24 to July 23 was 10% to 15% heavier because of global warming. In 2022, the country’s worst monsoon season on record killed more than 1,700 people and caused an estimated $40 billion in ...

  • July was Earth's third-warmest on record, EU scientists say

    July was Earth's third-warmest on record, EU scientists say

    Aug 07, 2025 02:02 PM EDT

    ROME (AP) — The world experienced it's third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union agency that tracks global warming said Thursday, after two consecutive years when temperatures soared past previous records. Despite a slightly lower global average temperature, the scientists said extremes — including heat and deadly floods ...

  • News Wrap: Army sergeant accused of shooting 5 soldiers at Fort Stewart

    News Wrap: Army sergeant accused of shooting 5 soldiers at Fort Stewart

    Aug 06, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... it an unprecedented disaster and saying that climate change is to blame. Francis Bayrou, French Prime Minister (through interpreter): Today's event is linked to global warming and drought. We need to think about this with local elected officials and professional leaders, with parliamentarians and the government. We need to ...

  • Record catch of krill near Antarctica could trigger early closure of fishery

    Record catch of krill near Antarctica could trigger early closure of fishery

    Jul 29, 2025 05:50 PM EDT

    MIAMI (AP) — Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached seasonal catch limit that would trigger the unprecedented early closure of the remote fishery, The ...

  • UN’s top court delivered a landmark opinion on climate justice. What’s next?

    UN’s top court delivered a landmark opinion on climate justice. What’s next?

    Jul 24, 2025 08:55 PM EDT

    The U.S. also argued that individual nations, not courts, should determine what should be just compensation for the negative effects of climate change. Taylor also argued that countries that were contributors to global warming should only be held responsible for the greenhouse gases they emitted after climate change was ...

  • WATCH: Trump reveals ‘AI Action Plan’ shaped by tech lobbyists after revoking Biden policy

    WATCH: Trump reveals ‘AI Action Plan’ shaped by tech lobbyists after revoking Biden policy

    Jul 23, 2025 02:19 PM EDT

    ... get its computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production, which contributes to global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world’s major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables ...