Study: Back-to-Back Hurricanes Likely to Come More Often February 28, 2023 By Seth Borenstein What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States...
Historic Compensation Fund Approved at UN Climate Talks November 21, 2022 By Seth Borenstein, Samy Magdy and Frank Jordans SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — For the first time the nations of the world decided to help pay for the...
Study: Four Major Tipping Points Close to Triggering Hotter Temps September 15, 2022 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping...
Nuclear Industry Hopes to Expand Output with New Reactors June 22, 2022 By Jennifer McDermott The U.S. nuclear industry is generating less electricity as reactors retire, but now plant operators are hoping to nearly double...
Australia Fights Court Ruling of a Climate Duty of Care October 19, 2021 By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Monday began its legal challenge to a judge’s landmark decision that the...
Fires Without Precedent Rage in Usually Cool, Wet Northwest September 11, 2020 By Andrew Selsky and Gillian Flaccus GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Numerous wildfires burned in Oregon’s forested valleys and along the coast, destroying hundreds of homes and...
The Arctic is on Fire: Siberian Heat Wave Alarms Scientists June 25, 2020 By Daria Litvinova and Seth Borenstein MOSCOW — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists...
Study Finds Greenhouse Gases to Billow on Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Boom January 15, 2020 By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Jan 14 — A multi-billion dollar boom in petrochemical plants proposed along the U.S. Gulf Coast could pump as...
‘Changing Climate’ Intensifying Disasters Per Texas Report December 18, 2018 By PAUL J. WEBER Powerful natural disasters in Texas on the scale of Hurricane Harvey‘s deadly destruction last year will become more frequent because...
Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Help Thwart Threat From Rising Seas March 26, 2018 Coastal cities worldwide would face a reduced threat from sea level rise if society reduced greenhouse gas emissions, with especially...