• 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 ...

  • Why Harris is promoting domestic oil drilling at the same time as clean energy jobs

    Why Harris is promoting domestic oil drilling at the same time as clean energy jobs

    Sep 13, 2024 06:35 PM EDT

    ... surprised supporters and opponents alike — and conflicted with frequent boasts by Harris and President Joe Biden that they are champions in the fight to slow global warming. After former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Biden-Harris administration reentered the global ...

  • Strengthened by warm oceans, Francine hits Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane

    Strengthened by warm oceans, Francine hits Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane

    Sep 11, 2024 10:54 PM EDT

    ... projections are telling us this is the type of thing that should become much more common as we go forward into the 21st century, as global warming continues to increase,” according to Gabriel Vecchi, a hurricane researcher at Princeton University who also directs its High Meadows Environmental Institute. But there ...

  • The Great Barrier Reef waters were the warmest in 400 years over the past decade, Australian study finds

    The Great Barrier Reef waters were the warmest in 400 years over the past decade, Australian study finds

    Aug 07, 2024 04:46 PM EDT

    ... casualty of future warming as the world approaches the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold that countries agreed to try and keep warming under in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Even if global warming is kept under the Paris Agreement's goal, which scientists say Earth is ...

  • After 3 days of searching mud and debris, hopes of finding landslide survivors wane in India

    After 3 days of searching mud and debris, hopes of finding landslide survivors wane in India

    Aug 01, 2024 05:46 PM EDT

    ... for rain-fed crops planted during the season, but often cause extensive damage. Scientists say monsoons are becoming more erratic because of climate change and global warming. Heavy rains also wreaked havoc in other parts of India in recent days.New Delhi, the Indian capital, shut schools on Thursday after ...

  • Storms bring new round of heavy flooding to Vermont with more downpours on the horizon

    Storms bring new round of heavy flooding to Vermont with more downpours on the horizon

    Jul 31, 2024 05:47 PM EDT

    ... depend on litigation against the much-better-resourced oil industry. Although climate change has its impacts, special calculations are needed to determine exactly how much global warming is to blame, if at all, for any single extreme weather event. “The flooding in Lyndonville is just highlighting that climate change is ...

  • Landslides caused by heavy rains in southern India kill at least 93 and bury many others

    Landslides caused by heavy rains in southern India kill at least 93 and bury many others

    Jul 30, 2024 05:21 PM EDT

    ... brings most of South Asia’s annual rainfall. The rains are crucial for rain-fed crops planted during the season, but often cause extensive damage. Scientists say monsoons are becoming more erratic because of climate change and global warming. AP writer Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India, contributed to this report.

  • Inmates at Louisiana's Angola prison sue to end working farm lines in brutal heat

    Inmates at Louisiana's Angola prison sue to end working farm lines in brutal heat

    Jul 25, 2024 05:53 PM EDT

    U.S. correctional officials, meanwhile, tout the benefits of their work programs, saying they reduce recidivism, provide skills that can be used on the outside and keep prisoners from being idle. The issue of extreme heat has become more concerning in recent years amid the effects of global warming. The ...

  • News Wrap: Airstrike on shelter in Khan Younis kills at least 25

    News Wrap: Airstrike on shelter in Khan Younis kills at least 25

    Jul 09, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... know what this is? It's a snowball. Amna Nawaz: Known for his bullish personality, Inhofe famously went to the Senate floor in 2015 with a clump of snow as evidence to refute global warming. Flags will fly at half-staff in Oklahoma through tomorrow. Inhofe was 89 years old.