• Oregon governor takes sweeping action to cut global warming

    Oregon governor takes sweeping action to cut global warming

    Mar 11, 2020 04:28 AM EDT

    Gov. Kate Brown's sweeping executive order, one of the boldest in the nation, directs a state agency to set and enforce caps on pollution from industry and transportation fuels.

  • How more organic farming could worsen global warming

    How more organic farming could worsen global warming

    Oct 22, 2019 07:56 PM EDT

    ... cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in certain controlled situations. A widely cited white paper by the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania found that shifting all global cropland to a regenerative model could cut annual CO2 emissions by more than 100 percent. (Reminder: The planet will likely need to achieve a ...

  • United Nations predicts hungry future, due to global warming, that can be avoided

    United Nations predicts hungry future, due to global warming, that can be avoided

    Aug 08, 2019 12:42 PM EDT

    Most scenarios predict the world's tropical regions will have "unprecedented climatic conditions by the mid to late 21st century," the report noted. Agriculture and forestry together account for about 23% of the heat-trapping gases that are warming the Earth, slightly less than from cars, trucks, boats and planes ...

  • How global warming is permanently reshaping the Great Barrier Reef

    How global warming is permanently reshaping the Great Barrier Reef

    Apr 03, 2019 06:49 PM EDT

    ... have also contributed to the decline in new corals in the northern Great Barrier Reef. The new paper, Kenkel said, convinced her that bleaching -- and global warming -- caused this decline in baby corals. The timing and location of the bleaching events matched too closely with the researchers’ empty coral panels ...

  • Trump's speech ignored global warming and climate disasters, but Americans are more worried than ever

    Trump's speech ignored global warming and climate disasters, but Americans are more worried than ever

    Feb 06, 2019 05:53 PM EDT

    The PBS NewsHour spoke with energy and climate advocates about how they want Trump and the union to approach these issues in 2019 and beyond.

  • UN chief: 'Pivotal moment' for fighting global warming

    UN chief: 'Pivotal moment' for fighting global warming

    Sep 25, 2018 01:28 PM EDT

    UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the world has reached "a pivotal moment" in global warming and risks runaway climate change if leaders don't act in the next two years. He is telling world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that they aren't doing ...

  • Global warming could drive 660,000 more people per year to Europe

    Global warming could drive 660,000 more people per year to Europe

    Dec 22, 2017 01:46 PM EDT

    ... that developing countries will be impacted more severely by climate change, resulting in a human spillover into more resilient nations. While the future extent of global warming is hard to guess, Schlenker said the best case scenario for emissions would limit warming to 1.8 degrees Celsius. But based on ...

  • Global warming is stronger than ever -- and nearly all of it is man-made, new government report says

    Global warming is stronger than ever -- and nearly all of it is man-made, new government report says

    Nov 03, 2017 06:48 PM EDT

    ... have become frequent. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt have repeatedly said carbon dioxide isn't the primary contributor to global warming. It's "extremely likely" — meaning with 95 to 100 percent certainty — that global warming is man-made, mostly from the spewing of carbon ...

  • EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming

    EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming

    Mar 26, 2017 05:35 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump in the coming days will sign a new executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to curb global warming, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday. EPA chief Scott Pruitt said the executive order to be signed Tuesday will undo the Obama ...

  • How global warming leads to tiny horses and other shrinking mammals

    How global warming leads to tiny horses and other shrinking mammals

    Mar 15, 2017 08:09 PM EDT

    ... years to adapt to these global climate change events,” University of New Hampshire paleoclimatologist Abigail D'Ambrosia, who led the study, said. “Today, we're warming and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at 10 times the rate of these ancient global warming events.” Bighorn Basin sits 80 miles east of ...