• Can the world's whitest paint save Earth?

    Can the world's whitest paint save Earth?

    Oct 18, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... to paint less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface, no matter is it roofs, roads, cars. We should be able to totally reverse global warming and bring the temperature back to where we want it to be. John Yang: Commercial white paint is widely used in hotter climates ...

  • Climate change's uneven impact on communities of color compounded by uneven flow of aid

    Climate change's uneven impact on communities of color compounded by uneven flow of aid

    Oct 07, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

    ... swallow. There's a lot of people who were vulnerable before Hurricane Laura who are today still 10 times as vulnerable. Roby Chavez: Experts say global warming will likely increase the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, but the impacts will be uneven. The Environmental Protection Agency has said that ...

  • Stalled weather front drenches Alabama, at least 4 killed in floods

    Stalled weather front drenches Alabama, at least 4 killed in floods

    Oct 07, 2021 03:52 PM EDT

    ... seven weeks after flooding killed more than a dozen people in Tennessee. These types of floods may be more common in the future because of global warming, scientists say. Federal research has found that man-made climate change doubles the chances of the types of heavy rains that swamped Baton ...

  • News Wrap: Johnson & Johnson asks FDA to approve its COVID-19 booster shot

    News Wrap: Johnson & Johnson asks FDA to approve its COVID-19 booster shot

    Oct 05, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    ... three scientists for work related to climate change. Japan's Syukuro Manabe, based at Princeton University, and Germany's Klaus Hasselmann created models that predict global warming. Giorgio Parisi of Italy decoded complex behaviors that can help explain forces of nature.In China, doubts over huge debts in the real ...

  • WATCH: Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

    WATCH: Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

    Oct 04, 2021 02:33 PM EDT

    STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy. Syukuro Manabe, 90, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, were cited for their work in “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. The second half of the prize ...

  • What’s at stake at the upcoming world climate conference

    What’s at stake at the upcoming world climate conference

    Oct 03, 2021 07:33 PM EDT

    ... emissions by 2030, even if every country that has made these climate promises keeps those climate promises. And therefore, we are on track to accelerate global warming. So the latest statement from the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was we are still on a catastrophic pathway.  Hari Sreenivasan: During ...

  • Journalist Kara Swisher's Brief But Spectacular take on Big Tech power, responsibility

    Journalist Kara Swisher's Brief But Spectacular take on Big Tech power, responsibility

    Sep 28, 2021 10:20 PM EDT

    ... at this point. You can't fix it. I'm optimistic about climate change technology. I'm confident that there are innovative technological solutions to global warming or living in new ways in a new environmental situation. And so I'm optimistic about that. What I'm not optimistic about ...

  • McDonald’s pledges to phase out plastic in Happy Meal toys, a new app treats spider phobias and other stories you missed

    McDonald’s pledges to phase out plastic in Happy Meal toys, a new app treats spider phobias and other stories you missed

    Sep 24, 2021 07:28 PM EDT

    ... cow urine soaks into the soil, microbes convert it into nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. And nitrous oxide has nearly 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. To potty train the young cows, the team used a system built on reward and mild punishment. If a ...

  • WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 4

    WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 4

    Sep 23, 2021 11:50 PM EDT

    ... a U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday, the high-level officials urged stepped-up action to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations. They said warming is making the world less safe, pointing to Africa’s conflict ...

  • News Wrap: California bars worker productivity quotas used by Amazon, other warehouses

    News Wrap: California bars worker productivity quotas used by Amazon, other warehouses

    Sep 23, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    ... goal is a reduction of 85 percent in the next 15 years. HFCs help cool refrigerators and air conditioners, but scientists say they help fuel global warming. California is now the first state to bar Amazon and other giant warehouse employers from punishing or firing workers over productivity quotas. Governor ...