• News Wrap: Storm system blasts eastern U.S. with severe weather

    News Wrap: Storm system blasts eastern U.S. with severe weather

    Aug 08, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    ... far, the storm is blamed for two deaths in the Baltics. Forecasters say the rough weather could continue through tomorrow. There's fresh evidence of global warming affecting Antarctica. A study out today finds sea ice in the southern polar region hit a record low in February, and minimal ice ...

  • Pope Francis meets with survivors of clergy sex abuse in Portugal

    Pope Francis meets with survivors of clergy sex abuse in Portugal

    Aug 03, 2023 08:42 PM EDT

    ... hope that World Youth Day will be, for the ‘Old Continent,’ the aged continent, an impulse towards universal openness.” Citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, global warming and Europe’s aging population, he urged young people in particular to take up the mantle to build a future together. “I dream ...

  • Winter waves off of California are getting higher as the climate changes, research finds

    Winter waves off of California are getting higher as the climate changes, research finds

    Aug 03, 2023 03:22 PM EDT

    ... collapsed bluffs, damaged piers and flooded parts of the state’s picturesque Highway 1. Bromirski said that is a harbinger of the future. Scientists say global warming may even be accelerating, ushering in even bigger waves. As sea levels rise and storms intensify, bigger waves will cause more flooding in ...

  • News Wrap: Jurors recommended death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue gunman

    News Wrap: Jurors recommended death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue gunman

    Aug 02, 2023 10:40 PM EDT

    ... hear from victims' families tomorrow before formally imposing the death sentence. New findings on July's extreme heat point to a new link to manmade global warming. The science nonprofit Climate Central says it was hotter than normal for 80 percent of the world's population at least one day ...

  • Pope Francis urges Europe to settle conflicts and ignite hope while on Portugal trip

    Pope Francis urges Europe to settle conflicts and ignite hope while on Portugal trip

    Aug 02, 2023 05:14 PM EDT

    ... hope that World Youth Day will be, for the ‘Old Continent,’ the aged continent, an impulse towards universal openness.” Citing Russia's war in Ukraine, global warming and Europe’s demographic decline, he urged young people in particular to take up the mantle to build a future together. “I dream ...

  • 80 percent of humans on Earth had hotter July due to climate change, scientists find

    80 percent of humans on Earth had hotter July due to climate change, scientists find

    Aug 02, 2023 01:46 PM EDT

    Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a flash study. More than 6.5 billion people, or 81% of the world's population, sweated through at least one ...

  • Analysis: Is it actually hotter now than any time in the last 100,000 years?

    Analysis: Is it actually hotter now than any time in the last 100,000 years?

    Jul 29, 2023 04:52 PM EDT

    ... interglacial period, global temperature averaged over multiple centuries might have peaked roughly around 6,000 years ago, but probably did not exceed the 1 C global warming level at that point, according to the IPCC report. Another study found that global average temperatures continued to increase across the interglacial period ...

  • News Wrap: Wildfires trigger explosions in Greece as flames reach ammunitions depot

    News Wrap: Wildfires trigger explosions in Greece as flames reach ammunitions depot

    Jul 27, 2023 10:50 PM EDT

    ... trapping emissions. And, in New York, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres sounded his own warning. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General: The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived. The air is unbreathable. The heat is unbearable. And the level of fossil fuel ...

  • July is globe's hottest month in recorded history

    July is globe's hottest month in recorded history

    Jul 27, 2023 03:27 PM EDT

    ... terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” Guterres told reporters in a New York briefing. “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.” Buontempo and other scientists said the records are from human-caused climate change augmented by a natural El Nino warming of ...

  • Climate change influencing July heat waves in Europe, China and America, study says

    Climate change influencing July heat waves in Europe, China and America, study says

    Jul 25, 2023 02:19 PM EDT

    ... in Europe and North America "virtually impossible" without the increase in heat from the mid 1800s. Statistically, the one in China could have happened without global warming. Since the advent of industrial-scale burning, the world has warmed 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius), so "they are not ...