• German mayor strikes deal to stop group's climate roadblocks

    German mayor strikes deal to stop group's climate roadblocks

    Feb 23, 2023 10:42 PM EDT

    ... gluing themselves to roads — a tactic that has enraged many motorists. The group says its goal is to highlight the need for tougher action against global warming but the protests have sparked fierce criticism among some in Germany who say they're dangerous and harm the climate cause. “At times ...

  • New report says companies' climate targets are misleading to the public

    New report says companies' climate targets are misleading to the public

    Feb 13, 2023 01:10 AM EDT

    ... from the companies’ plans would amount to less than half those needed by 2030 to help meet the Paris climate accord’s goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), it found in its second annual assessment. The researchers also questioned companies' pledges to achieve ...

  • House GOP seeks restrictions on presidential use of U.S. oil stockpile

    House GOP seeks restrictions on presidential use of U.S. oil stockpile

    Jan 28, 2023 01:10 AM EDT

    ... lands account for about 20 percent of energy-related U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, making them a prime target for emissions reductions intended to slow global warming. “Whether on land or at sea, oil drilling poses an unacceptable risk for our wildlife, wild places and waterways,'' said Lisa Frank of ...

  • Latest ice core analysis shows sharp warming spike in Greenland

    Latest ice core analysis shows sharp warming spike in Greenland

    Jan 18, 2023 10:59 PM EDT

    ... Hoerhold said. But as of about 25 years ago, the warming became too big to be hidden, she said. Past data also showed Greenland not warming as fast as the rest of the Arctic, which is now warming four times faster than the global average. But the island appears to ...

  • 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 ...