• UN releases dire climate report highlighting rapid environmental degradation

    UN releases dire climate report highlighting rapid environmental degradation

    Feb 28, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... extinct, and that is new for the -- since the last IPCC report. William Brangham: World leaders, including President Biden, have pledged to try and limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. But with the world's top economies spitting out near ...

  • How climate change is hurting living things on Earth right now, according to a new report

    How climate change is hurting living things on Earth right now, according to a new report

    Feb 28, 2022 11:00 AM EDT

    ... the science behind global warming, and the link to human activity. These latest findings – the second report in a series of three – focus on the global impacts of climate change on people and nature, which will vary based on the level of warming reached in coming decades. It also addresses ...

  • Even as calls for climate action grow, actual greenhouse gas emissions higher than official reports

    Even as calls for climate action grow, actual greenhouse gas emissions higher than official reports

    Feb 24, 2022 10:03 PM EDT

    ... which traps heat 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, making methane reduction one of the fastest routes to reducing global warming, experts say. During the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in November, the Biden administration unveiled its proposal to slash methane emissions ...

  • Alarming new climate report predicts 'catastrophic' global wildfires in the coming years

    Alarming new climate report predicts 'catastrophic' global wildfires in the coming years

    Feb 23, 2022 11:45 PM EDT

    ... of itself, is alarming enough, but a worry that that might even be a lowball projection because of this ongoing question as to how much global warming is impacting the ice sheets in Greenland and in Antarctica. And in Antarctica specifically, there's a glacier there, the Thwaites Glacier, that ...

  • A new report predicts more frequent, destructive flooding. What drives sea level rise?

    A new report predicts more frequent, destructive flooding. What drives sea level rise?

    Feb 17, 2022 04:43 PM EDT

    ... for 10-12 inches of relative sea level rise on average in the next 30 years. The rise is due to both sinking land and global warming. And given the greenhouse emissions released so far, the country is unlikely to be able to avoid it. That much sea level rise ...

  • Western states face a bleak future amid the worst drought in more than 1,000 years

    Western states face a bleak future amid the worst drought in more than 1,000 years

    Feb 15, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    ... and you don't give your plants more water, then they're going to dry out faster. The same thing happens in the real world. Global warming is like turning on the heater in the atmosphere. The atmosphere's demand for moisture actually increases. And so plants and soil lose ...

  • Why Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are on the rise

    Why Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are on the rise

    Feb 09, 2022 10:02 PM EDT

    ... in the 1950s. And a 2019 study projected that  the range of the lone star tick will move northward and westward under some scenarios of global warming. Similarly, a 2021 review of climate modeling studies found that  black-legged ticks are expected to expand farther northward with warming temperatures across ...

  • Unpredictable weather impacts long-standing traditions on outdoor rinks

    Unpredictable weather impacts long-standing traditions on outdoor rinks

    Jan 31, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    In a letter, the league said the refrigerant never has been presented as the only solution, and that the vast majority of rinks now using it had previously used refrigerants with an even higher global warming potential. The threat of climate change is about more than just future generations of ...

  • Inspired by her mother, Isabel Allende publishes new book 'Violeta'

    Inspired by her mother, Isabel Allende publishes new book 'Violeta'

    Jan 25, 2022 06:48 PM EDT

    ... the novel deals with a wide range of themes, from feminism and verbal abuse, human rights violations and homosexuality, to amorous passions, infidelity and even global warming. Throughout its almost 400 pages, it also reviews socialist movements, communism, military dictatorships in the Southern Cone and democracies. "Violeta, like my mother ...

  • Rising temperatures, dying cattle: Iraq is reeling from climate change

    Rising temperatures, dying cattle: Iraq is reeling from climate change

    Jan 16, 2022 09:36 PM EDT

     Simona Foltyn: But while Iraq is reeling from the impact of climate change, it is also a significant contributor to the greenhouse emissions that cause global warming. Iraq is the world’s sixth largest oil producer,  but is second only to Russia in gas flaring,  a wasteful process of ...