• 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 ...

  • Senate narrowly passes Democrats' economic package, sends it to House

    Senate narrowly passes Democrats' economic package, sends it to House

    Aug 07, 2022 08:59 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. The estimated $740 ...

  • African officials lay out goals ahead of the U.N. climate summit

    African officials lay out goals ahead of the U.N. climate summit

    Aug 02, 2022 11:27 PM EDT

    MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit, including a push to make heavily polluting rich nations compensate poor countries for the environmental damage done to them. The continent will also focus on how countries can adapt to global warming and how the ...

  • Climate change is already fueling global migration. The world isn't ready to meet people's changing needs, experts say

    Climate change is already fueling global migration. The world isn't ready to meet people's changing needs, experts say

    Jul 28, 2022 06:14 PM EDT

    ... asylum to climate migrants, UNHCR published legal guidance in October 2020 that opens the door for offering protection to people displaced by the effects of global warming. It said that climate change should be taken into consideration in certain scenarios when it intersects with violence, though it stopped short of ...

  • WATCH: Biden announces modest climate action at former coal plant in Massachusetts

    WATCH: Biden announces modest climate action at former coal plant in Massachusetts

    Jul 20, 2022 05:33 PM EDT

    ... similar fate. The Supreme Court last month limited the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. Declaring a climate emergency "is a way to get around Congress and specifically Joe Manchin. That's not what emergency powers are for ...

  • Britain breaks record for highest temperature as heat wave sears Europe

    Britain breaks record for highest temperature as heat wave sears Europe

    Jul 19, 2022 02:35 PM EDT

    ... are produced as near to real time as possible with final readings issued after data quality-control, the Met Office said. Climate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events, with studies showing that the likelihood of temperatures in the U.K. reaching 40 C ...

  • Climate change aid, Ukraine war fallout feature at Berlin talks

    Climate change aid, Ukraine war fallout feature at Berlin talks

    Jul 18, 2022 10:39 PM EDT

    ... world. Meanwhile, scientists say the extreme heat slamming large parts of the northern hemisphere in recent weeks could become the new normal in summer if global warming continues. “As this meeting is taking place, parts of Europe are baking, indeed they’re burning. And sadly, it’s an experience that ...

  • Europe's heat wave continues to fuel fires in France, Spain

    Europe's heat wave continues to fuel fires in France, Spain

    Jul 18, 2022 08:28 PM EDT

    ... planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.” That toll comes on top of the hundreds of heat-related deaths reported in the Iberian peninsula, as high ...

  • After Manchin demands, Biden tells Democrats to quickly pass pared-down economic package

    After Manchin demands, Biden tells Democrats to quickly pass pared-down economic package

    Jul 15, 2022 10:11 PM EDT

    ... for Democrats to succeed in the 50-50 Senate, had also said Friday that if party leaders want to pursue a broader measure aimed at global warming and raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, they should wait until later this summer. He argued that would allow time to see ...