• Kenya's worst drought in decades creates humanitarian crisis

    Kenya's worst drought in decades creates humanitarian crisis

    Jan 14, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    ... always been a part of pastoralist culture, but increasingly severe droughts are intensifying competition among rival nomadic groups. Researchers estimate that just one degree of global warming will increase the likelihood of conflict by a minimum of 17 percent. Animosity here is already running high. Kacimapus Ichor (through translator): The ...

  • Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences

    Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences

    Jan 14, 2022 04:30 PM EDT

    Our study provided the first analysis of 2021’s ocean warming, and we were able to attribute the warming to human activities. Global warming is alive and well, unfortunately. The global mean surface temperature was the fifth or sixth warmest on record in 2021 (the record depends on the dataset ...

  • For 6th straight year, Earth sets record for hottest in history

    For 6th straight year, Earth sets record for hottest in history

    Jan 13, 2022 08:34 PM EDT

    ... is important, extreme weather from climate change is hurting people now in their daily lives with about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warming, Vose and Schmidt said.The global average temperature last year was 58.5 degrees (14.7 Celsius), according to NOAA. In 1988, NASA's ...

  • 2021's deadliest, coldest, most expensive U.S. disasters, by the numbers

    2021's deadliest, coldest, most expensive U.S. disasters, by the numbers

    Jan 12, 2022 07:56 PM EDT

    ... Quality weather and climate data sets are “critical” for scientists’ understanding of “how our climate system has changed over the years,” Gleason said in an email, adding that they “expect to see more frequent extremes in heat waves, droughts, floods and warmer overnight temperatures as a result of global warming.”

  • How climate change exacerbates conditions that can spawn lethal tornadoes

    How climate change exacerbates conditions that can spawn lethal tornadoes

    Dec 14, 2021 06:52 PM EDT

    ... outbreak or a tornado-producing storm occurred at different levels of global warming. Projections suggest that stronger, tornado-producing storms may be more likely as global temperatures rise, though strengthened less than we might expect from the increase in available energy. The impact of 1 degree of warming Much of ...

  • Russia vetoes U.N. resolution linking climate change to international security

    Russia vetoes U.N. resolution linking climate change to international security

    Dec 13, 2021 09:03 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Russia on Monday vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security, a vote that sank a years-long effort to make global warming more central to decision-making in the U.N.'s ...

  • Biden sets out oil and gas leasing reform, stops short of ban

    Biden sets out oil and gas leasing reform, stops short of ban

    Nov 26, 2021 06:57 PM EDT

    ... that goal over the next decade to avoid catastrophic climate change. Yet even as Biden has tried to cajole other world leaders into strengthening efforts against global warming, including at this month’s U.N. climate talks in Scotland, he’s had difficulty gaining ground on climate issues at home.

  • 5 global climate actions to watch for in 2022

    5 global climate actions to watch for in 2022

    Nov 24, 2021 08:55 PM EDT

    ... In island nations that are losing their homes to sea level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F). For large middle ...

  • WATCH: Biden to re-nominate Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair

    WATCH: Biden to re-nominate Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair

    Nov 22, 2021 04:15 PM EDT

    ... two other senators expressed opposition to Powell last week because they said he was insufficiently committed to using the Fed's regulatory tools to combat global warming. Brainard, meanwhile, cast 20 dissenting votes against financial rule changes in the past four years. In March 2020, she opposed a regulatory change ...

  • WATCH: Pelosi holds briefing while divided House debates Dems' expansive social, climate bill

    WATCH: Pelosi holds briefing while divided House debates Dems' expansive social, climate bill

    Nov 18, 2021 09:32 PM EDT

    ... the measure's roughly $555 billion in tax credits and other costs to encourage cleaner energy need not be paid for in the bill because global warming is an existential crisis. Critics have said the bill's overall cost would exceed $4 trillion if Democrats hadn't made temporary some ...