• At least 158 killed in Spain's catastrophic floods as authorities continue search for bodies

    At least 158 killed in Spain's catastrophic floods as authorities continue search for bodies

    Oct 31, 2024 03:20 PM EDT

    ... this week’s deluge in Valencia, according to a rapid but partial analysis Thursday by World Weather Attribution, comprising dozens of international scientists who study global warming’s role in extreme weather. Spain has suffered through an almost two-year drought, meaning that when the deluge happened late Tuesday and ...

  • States work to track down and cap dangerous methane leaks from abandoned oil and gas wells

    States work to track down and cap dangerous methane leaks from abandoned oil and gas wells

    Oct 24, 2024 10:25 PM EDT

    ... these at a time. Miles O'Brien: Methane traps about 80 times more heat during a 20-year lifetime than carbon dioxide. It is responsible for about 30 percent of human-caused global warming, and about 8 percent of methane emissions in Pennsylvania are linked to orphaned and abandoned wells.

  • Where Harris and Trump stand on climate change policies

    Where Harris and Trump stand on climate change policies

    Oct 17, 2024 10:25 PM EDT

    ... he often talks about the issue. Donald Trump, Former President of the United States (R) and Current U.S. Presidential Candidate: When people talk about global warming, I say the ocean is going to go down 100th of an inch within the next 400 years. That's not our problem ...

  • 'Planet Earth is really messed up right now': Floridians struggle after 2 major hurricanes

    'Planet Earth is really messed up right now': Floridians struggle after 2 major hurricanes

    Oct 11, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    Robert Harrison, Florida Resident: Every storm seems like it's a little worse than the last one. If that's what the climatologists and science people call the effects of global warming, then OK. But whatever the cause, the effect is, it's getting uglier and uglier every storm season ...

  • Helene's deadly rain and wind got a boost from climate change, flash study finds

    Helene's deadly rain and wind got a boost from climate change, flash study finds

    Oct 09, 2024 02:13 PM EDT

    ... in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, and that observed rainfall was “made up to 20 times more likely in these areas because of global warming.” That study was also not peer-reviewed but used a method published in a study about Hurricane Harvey. Kim Cobb, director of the ...

  • What makes Tampa especially vulnerable to hurricanes right now

    What makes Tampa especially vulnerable to hurricanes right now

    Oct 07, 2024 10:01 PM EDT

    ... level rise and added moisture to the air — all key factors determining a hurricane's strength and the potential flooding it can cause. “Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will likely cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flood risk due to higher storm surge ...

  • Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz on abortion, immigration and Iran

    Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz on abortion, immigration and Iran

    Oct 02, 2024 04:24 PM EDT

    ... He also made similar "hoax" comments in 2022. In an August 2024 interview with X owner Elon Musk, Trump said, "The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years … and you’ll have more oceanfront ...

  • 9 takeaways from the Vance-Walz VP debate

    9 takeaways from the Vance-Walz VP debate

    Oct 02, 2024 05:05 AM EDT

    ... Helene, Vance took a question about climate change and gave an answer about jobs and manufacturing, taking a detour around Trump's past claims that global warming is a “hoax.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzbeb-yUm5o Vance contended that the best way to fight climate change was to ...

  • Firefighters and volunteers battle raging forest fire in southern Greece that's killed two people

    Firefighters and volunteers battle raging forest fire in southern Greece that's killed two people

    Oct 01, 2024 03:34 PM EDT

    ... late Sunday by the fast-advancing blaze. Greece, like other southern European countries, is plagued every summer by destructive wildfires that have been exacerbated by global warming. Over the past few months, the fire service has had to cope with more than 4,500 wildfires. This year's had been ...

  • WATCH: 2024 United Nations General Assembly - Day 3

    WATCH: 2024 United Nations General Assembly - Day 3

    Sep 26, 2024 02:18 PM EDT

    A trio of leaders of international climate negotiations urged colleagues to step up efforts to fight global warming, but outside groups and endangered nations told those leaders to look in the mirror, take their own advice and stop pumping out fossil fuels. At the United Nations, the troika of the ...