Climate Change

October was the 5th straight month to set new heat record in 2023

By Melina Walling, Associated Press

2023 is now virtually certain to be the hottest year on record, the Copernicus Climate Change service said Wednesday.

Mixed response to climate loss and damages talks set stage for conflict at COP28

By Sibi Arasu, Associated Press

Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

Pioneering climate scientist Saleemul Huq, who argued for helping poor nations adapt to warming, dies at 71

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died. He was 71.

Extreme weather creates a scary sight for U.S. pumpkin patches this year

By Melina Walling, Brittany Peterson, Associated Press

Some pumpkin farmers in the West, particularly wholesalers in places like Colorado and New Mexico, are feeling the pinching effects of drought.

Key chunk of Antarctica destined to melt even if humanity slashes carbon emissions, study says

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

The study's lead author says the full melt will take hundreds of years, but its slow addition of nearly 6 feet to sea levels will reshape where and how people live in the future.

At least 2 people dead in Scotland as severe winds and floods buffet Northern Europe

By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press

The winds are expected to hit hardest in the eastern part of Denmark's Jutland peninsula and the Danish islands in the Baltic Sea. But the northern part of the British Isles, southern Sweden and Norway, and northern Germany are also…

Stalled spending on electrical grids slows rollout of renewable energy, endangering climate goals

By David McHugh, Associated Press

Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines aren't added or refurbished in the next few years.

Analysis: The potential global impact of California's new corporate climate disclosure laws

By Lily Hsueh, The Conversation

The legislation is a major leap from current federal and state reporting requirements, which require reporting of only certain emissions from companies’ direct operations.

U.S. oil production hits all-time high, conflicting with efforts to curb climate change

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

United States domestic oil production has hit an all-time high last week, contrasting with efforts to slice heat-trapping carbon emissions by the Biden administration and world leaders.

IMF and World Bank are urged to boost funding for African nations facing conflict, climate change

By Taiwo Adebayo, Associated Press

Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture.