• Weekend storms to cool California heat wave, but may cause flash floods

    Weekend storms to cool California heat wave, but may cause flash floods

    Sep 09, 2022 02:48 PM EDT

    ... massive flooding around the globe as moisture evaporating from land and water is held in the atmosphere and then redeposited by intense rains. Scientists are reluctant to attribute any specific weather event to global warming, but say heat waves are exactly the type of changes that will become more common.

  • As Africa's climate warms, rich countries pledge more funds

    As Africa's climate warms, rich countries pledge more funds

    Sep 05, 2022 05:09 PM EDT

    ... and $300 billion, Adesina said. He added that the costs of adapting to climate change are expected to increase by 2050, as the effects of global warming get more severe. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo said his country will push for the funds allocated to adapting to a warmer ...

  • Aid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark

    Aid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark

    Sep 02, 2022 07:23 PM EDT

    ... the extreme flooding. Ammar Malik, a research scientist at AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary in the United States, said global warming had worsened the floods in two ways, by hastening the annual monsoon and accelerating summertime glacial melting. WATCH: Millions of flood victims in ...

  • U.N. weather agency predicts rare third consecutive La Nina in 2022

    U.N. weather agency predicts rare third consecutive La Nina in 2022

    Aug 31, 2022 03:24 PM EDT

    ... warming is easing. "It is exceptional to have three consecutive years with a La Nina event. Its cooling influence is temporarily slowing the rise in global temperatures, but it will not halt or reverse the long-term warming trend," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said. La Nina is a natural ...

  • Death toll in Pakistan passes 1,110 as monsoon floods reach historic levels

    Death toll in Pakistan passes 1,110 as monsoon floods reach historic levels

    Aug 29, 2022 10:50 PM EDT

    ... glacial ice mass on the planet, nearly 8,000 glaciers in this part of the world. Those glaciers are receding because of climate change and global warming. And what that is doing is, it is causing flash floods. It is causing glacial lake outburst floods. And all that water is ...

  • Biden's climate change measure promises future land leases for oil companies

    Biden's climate change measure promises future land leases for oil companies

    Aug 19, 2022 01:05 AM EDT

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal time for Chevron ...

  • Sweeping climate bill will push American energy to go green

    Sweeping climate bill will push American energy to go green

    Aug 11, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... 1988 on a steamy summer day, top NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen brought to public attention for the first time the decades-old concept of global warming when he told Congress carbon dioxide was heating up the Earth. That year became the hottest on record. Now, there have been so ...

  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer discusses Democrats' major climate and health bill

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer discusses Democrats' major climate and health bill

    Aug 09, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... lot of things for a lot of people. And the fact, finally, that global warming will finally get a handle on it is going to mean that people will be more protected from the floods and hurricanes and fires and everything else that's been happening because of global warming.

  • Climate change hazards worsen 58 percent of infectious diseases, study says

    Climate change hazards worsen 58 percent of infectious diseases, study says

    Aug 08, 2022 04:52 PM EDT

    ... del Rio and three other outside experts said the study is a good warning about climate and health for now and the future. Especially as global warming and habitat loss push animals and their diseases closer to humans, Bernstein said. "This study underscores how climate change may load the dice ...

  • A look at the policies in the Democrats' historic climate bill

    A look at the policies in the Democrats' historic climate bill

    Aug 07, 2022 09:45 PM EDT

    The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest investment in climate policy in U.S. history, including more than $300 billion to address global warming. It also sets a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent by the year 2030 and creates an electric vehicle tax credit. Rev. Lennox Yearwood ...