• News Wrap: Trump and Fed Chair Powell meet at White House

    News Wrap: Trump and Fed Chair Powell meet at White House

    May 29, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... off and caused a landslide, destroying about 90 percent of the town. Switzerland has the most glaciers of any European country, and scientists warn that global warming is contributing to a thaw in recent years. On Wall Street today, stocks ended a bit higher as investors digested the latest on ...

  • April 27, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    April 27, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Apr 27, 2025 09:59 PM EDT

    ... after Trump raised doubts about Putin’s commitment to peace. As Trump’s second term approaches 100 days, we examine the most controversial and consequential moments. What’s on voters’ minds as Canada elects a new prime minister. Plus, how global warming may be endangering Indigenous artifacts in remote Alaska.

  • How a warming Arctic may be eroding Indigenous history in Alaska

    How a warming Arctic may be eroding Indigenous history in Alaska

    Apr 27, 2025 09:30 PM EDT

    In a remote part of Alaska, global warming is being blamed for endangering a treasure trove of Indigenous artifacts. Archaeologists at one dig site near the Bering Sea say they’re in a race against time. Nelufar Hedayat reports for the nonprofit news organization Evident Media.

  • How Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church

    How Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church

    Apr 21, 2025 09:18 AM EDT

    Francis became the first pope to use scientific data in a major teaching document by calling global warming a largely human-caused problem. In his 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Francis denounced a “structurally perverse” world economic system that exploits the poor and risks turning the Earth into an “immense pile ...

  • Farmers turn to seaweed in attempt to reduce methane emissions from livestock

    Farmers turn to seaweed in attempt to reduce methane emissions from livestock

    Apr 14, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... It's a solution without a negative that I could taste. (Laughter) Sam Elsom: That's true. Miles O'Brien: Scientists say we must cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 in order to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. But we are headed in the ...

  • What is a 100-year flood? Here's what forecasters and scientists mean

    What is a 100-year flood? Here's what forecasters and scientists mean

    Apr 03, 2025 03:53 PM EDT

    ... Other regions have experienced drought due to changing precipitation patterns. According to NASA, major droughts and periods of excessive precipitation have been occurring more frequently. Globally, the intensity of extreme wet and dry events is closely linked to global warming. Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.

  • Greenlanders unite to fend off U.S. as Trump seeks control of the island

    Greenlanders unite to fend off U.S. as Trump seeks control of the island

    Mar 25, 2025 05:42 PM EDT

    ... worried that their homeland, a self-governing region of Denmark, has become a pawn in the competition between the U.S., Russia and China as global warming opens up access to the Arctic. They fear Trump’s aim to take control of Greenland, which holds rich mineral deposits and straddles ...

  • How climate change is affecting this key water cycle, triggering more extreme weather

    How climate change is affecting this key water cycle, triggering more extreme weather

    Mar 24, 2025 03:17 PM EDT

    WATCH: Earth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold. Here’s what to know That's because the atmosphere holds 7% more water vapor for every degree Celsius. “Basically, global warming is turning the atmosphere into a bigger sponge so it can soak up more moisture ... and then when ...

  • News Wrap: Deadly storm system leaves trail of destruction across U.S.

    News Wrap: Deadly storm system leaves trail of destruction across U.S.

    Mar 16, 2025 09:45 PM EDT

    ... who have been stuck in space since last June. Their Boeing Starliner capsule had so many problems that NASA insisted it return to Earth empty. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, how cutbacks at the FAA could affect aviation safety and a global warming milestone that has scientists worried.

  • Trump's EPA announces aggressive rollback of environmental protections

    Trump's EPA announces aggressive rollback of environmental protections

    Mar 13, 2025 10:25 PM EDT

    ... It would take a lot. I mean, you have to come up with science that says the thing that we know is not true, that global warming isn't happening and that humans are not contributing to it and that climate change isn't a problem for public health and ...