• News Wrap: Pentagon grounds V-22 Osprey fleet after near-crash

    News Wrap: Pentagon grounds V-22 Osprey fleet after near-crash

    Dec 09, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    ... century. Scientists place the blame on emissions from burning fossil fuels. Sergio Vicente-Serrano, Lead Author, IPPC Assessment Report: From observations, we can see that global warming has been the main factor explaining the aridity trends observed in the last decades. Precipitation is not changing very much at the global ...

  • Draft of climate money agreement for developing world leaves out how much wealthy nations will pay

    Draft of climate money agreement for developing world leaves out how much wealthy nations will pay

    Nov 21, 2024 07:01 PM EDT

    ... Guterres, who was at that meeting, said official language is one thing, but reality is another. “There will be no way” the world can limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius "if there is not a phase out of fossil fuels,” Guterres said at a Thursday news conference. Also ...

  • New study finds climate change is increasing the power of hurricanes

    New study finds climate change is increasing the power of hurricanes

    Nov 20, 2024 05:05 PM EDT

    ... storms is causing a lot more catastrophic damage in general," lead study author Daniel Gifford, a climate scientist at Climate Central, which does research on global warming. "Damages do scale (up) with the intensity." The effect was especially noticeable in stronger storms, including those that made it to the top ...

  • Brazil's president urges G20 members to take more action on climate change

    Brazil's president urges G20 members to take more action on climate change

    Nov 19, 2024 06:50 PM EDT

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president opened the second day of a meeting of the world's 20 major economies Tuesday by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's ...

  • WATCH: Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil

    WATCH: Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil

    Nov 17, 2024 06:34 PM EDT

    ... of his presidency — he’s pushed for cleaner air, water and energy, including legislation that marked the most substantial federal investment in history to fight global warming. But he's about to hand the nation over to Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who is highly unlikely to prioritize the Amazon ...

  • The role of climate change in an unusual outbreak of wildfires in the Northeast

    The role of climate change in an unusual outbreak of wildfires in the Northeast

    Nov 16, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    William Brangham: How much has this drought exacerbated this fire? Hilary Howard: Dry conditions or a drought. They are the reason for the fire or the reason the fire spreads so rapidly. Right. So, it starts with global warming. And if you just break it down, very simply, the earth ...

  • What Trump's pick of Zeldin to lead EPA signals for his environmental plans

    What Trump's pick of Zeldin to lead EPA signals for his environmental plans

    Nov 12, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    ... to the rest of the world is very much the days of thinking that the U.S. will ever be a reliable partner on addressing global warming are over. I don't -- the U.S. will never have credibility in this space again. And, as you say, it's coming ...

  • Afghanistan sends delegation to U.N. climate talks for 1st time since Taliban's return to power

    Afghanistan sends delegation to U.N. climate talks for 1st time since Taliban's return to power

    Nov 11, 2024 09:47 PM EDT

    BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — For the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan on Monday sent a delegation to the United Nations climate talks in a bid to garner help in dealing with global warming. Matuil Haq Khalis, who's head of the country’s environment protection ...

  • What to expect as the UN's COP29 climate change summit begins in Azerbaijan

    What to expect as the UN's COP29 climate change summit begins in Azerbaijan

    Nov 10, 2024 11:41 PM EDT

    ... Nov. 11. Their goal almost 30 years after the first Conference of the Parties (COP) in Berlin remains the same: increase international ambition to curb global warming below 1.5°C (2.7°F) pre-industrial levels to avoid catastrophic harm to the planet. Yet the world is perilously close to breaching ...

  • European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again

    European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again

    Nov 07, 2024 04:30 PM EDT

    ... Natalie Mahowald, chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. Going over that number in 2024 doesn’t mean the overall trend line of global warming has, but “in the absence of concerted action, it soon will,” said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann. Stanford University climate scientist ...