• At the World Economic Forum, Zelenskyy urges allies to speed up push against Russia

    At the World Economic Forum, Zelenskyy urges allies to speed up push against Russia

    Jan 18, 2023 08:04 PM EDT

    ... accurate predictions about the effects of climate change as far back as the 1970s, even as the company's stance publicly raised doubts about whether global warming was real. “We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking ...

  • African activists question credibility of upcoming UN climate talks

    African activists question credibility of upcoming UN climate talks

    Jan 17, 2023 04:36 PM EDT

    ... and multilateral development banks in the last eight months for their funding of fossil fuels, which campaigners say undermines the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. The International Monetary Fund revealed that subsidies for dirty fuels ...

  • Will climate change lead to more intense weather events?

    Will climate change lead to more intense weather events?

    Jan 16, 2023 11:25 PM EDT

    ... s increasingly clear that other severe types of weather, like the recent flooding in California, droughts and longer wildfire seasons, all can be linked to global warming, the fingerprints of manmade climate change on extreme winter weather is less obvious. That debate often centers around the Arctic, a region warming ...

  • LISTEN: NASA says 2022 was one of the warmest years on record

    LISTEN: NASA says 2022 was one of the warmest years on record

    Jan 12, 2023 04:00 PM EDT

    ... lives on land," including stronger hurricanes and rising seas, said study co-author John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas.In the United States, global warming first grabbed headlines when Schmidt’s predecessor, climate scientist James Hansen, testified about worsening warming in 1988. That year would go on to ...

  • Climate change helped fuel 18 billion-dollar disasters in 2022, NOAA says

    Climate change helped fuel 18 billion-dollar disasters in 2022, NOAA says

    Jan 11, 2023 10:58 PM EDT

    At least 144 deaths were attributed to the storm in Florida alone, and the total damage neared $113 billion. Did global warming play a role? In some ways, yes, but there are still a lot of unknowns when it comes to hurricanes, explained climate scientists Matthew Barlow of UMass-Lowell ...

  • New study outlines grim future for hundreds of thousands of glaciers

    New study outlines grim future for hundreds of thousands of glaciers

    Jan 10, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    ... the world's more than 214,000 glaciers. You looked at what happens even if the world manages to meet what is its most ambitious, global warming goal, right, just a 1.5-degree Celsius increase. What did your study find happens to those glaciers if we can do that ...

  • Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Jan 10, 2023 09:18 PM EDT

    ... Gleason. With a third straight year of a La Nina cooling the eastern Pacific, which tends to change weather patterns across the globe and moderate global warming, 2022 was only the 18th-warmest year in U.S. records, Gleason said. "It was a warm year certainly above average for most ...

  • Influential people we said goodbye to in 2022

    Influential people we said goodbye to in 2022

    Dec 31, 2022 01:55 AM EDT

    ... most prolific scorer with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national team. Dec. 29. Vivienne Westwood, 81. The influential fashion designer who played a key role in the punk movement became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. Dec. 29.

  • Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81

    Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81

    Dec 29, 2022 09:46 PM EDT

    ... who was honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. Katz, a longtime correspondent for The Associated Press who died in 2020, was ...

  • Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life

    Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life

    Dec 22, 2022 11:20 PM EDT

    ... if you're bad at forecasting, it means you also have -- it's difficult to make a strategy how to mitigate, right, the consequences of global warming. On the other hand, I would say now we have a generic road map, right? We have a genetic -- it's the building ...