• 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 ...

  • 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 ...