Oct 28 4 key issues to watch as world leaders prepare for the Glasgow climate summit By Rachel Kyte, The Conversation The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes. Continue reading
Oct 26 Majority in U.S. concerned about climate change, AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds By Ellen Knickmeyer, Emily Swanson, Nathan Ellgren, Associated Press In all, 59 percent of Americans said the Earth's warming was very or extremely important to them as an issue, up from 49 percent in 2018. Continue reading
Oct 26 U.N. chief laments ‘leadership gap’ ahead of climate talks By Associated Press U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Tuesday that time is running out to cut greenhouse gas emissions to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris accord and avert the world of global warming. Continue reading
Oct 22 Campaigners stage climate protests across the world By Associated Press Protesters rallied in Uganda, Bangladesh, India and Germany to call for measures that prevent dangerous levels of warming and take account of the plight of the world's poorest, who are particularly hard-hit by climate change. Continue reading
Oct 21 Forecasters predict warmer winter for two-thirds of U.S. By Emma H. Tobin, Associated Press The U.S. is currently in its second La Nina year in a row, which is not unusual. This likely will lead to worse drought across Western states, while the Pacific Northwest will see drought conditions improve. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch 8:37 Climate change’s uneven impact on communities of color compounded by uneven flow of aid By Roby Chavez, Sam Lane Hurricane Ida survivors are still facing a difficult road ahead, nearly six weeks after it battered Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. And in Lake Charles, Louisiana, thousands are still waiting for relief from a string of natural disasters that… Continue watching
Oct 01 Cavers descend into the ‘Well of Hell,’ new clues about humans’ arrival in North America and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin One in two children in the U.S. have detectable levels of lead in their blood, cavers descend to the bottom of Yemen’s ‘Well of Hell’ for the first time and newly discovered fossil footprints show earlier human arrival in North… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 8:30 California’s giant sequoias are pillars of living history. Climate change may kill them By Cat Wise, Leah Nagy California's famous giant sequoias can live for thousands of years. But the KNP Complex Fire is just 11 percent contained, and is burning across nearly 50,000 acres, including treasured groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Another fire is… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 5:06 Here’s what contributed to the extinction of ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species By John Yang, Ryan Connelly Holmes The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list, declaring them extinct. Perhaps the most well-known of the species deemed gone forever is the ivory-billed woodpecker. These extinctions are part of an… Continue watching
Sep 29 U.S. declares 23 species extinct By Matthew Brown, Associated Press It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal. But scientists say climate change threatens to make extinctions more common as it adds to the pressures facing imperiled species. Continue reading