global warming

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds

Daisy Hips

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought ...

2023’s billion-dollar disasters list shattered the US record with 28 weather and climate disasters amid Earth’s hottest year on record

Daisy Hips

National weather analysts released their 2023 “billion-dollar disasters list” on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting off to a ...

2023’s extreme storms, heat and wildfires broke records – a scientist explains how global warming fuels climate disasters

Daisy Hips

The year 2023 was marked by extraordinary heat, wildfires and weather disasters. In the U.S., an unprecedented heat wave gripped ...

What do you expect when an oil executive runs the climate talks?

Daisy Hips

Editor’s Note: John D. Sutter is a climate journalist and nonfiction filmmaker. He is the Ted Turner Visiting Professor of ...

Pledges from climate talks not enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, IEA says

Daisy Hips

The world is still off track to limit global warming to the crucial 1.5-degree threshold, despite pledges made by dozens ...

Activists at COP28 summit ramp up pressure on cutting fossil fuels as talks turn to clean energy

Daisy Hips

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists had a series of events and actions lined up Tuesday at the United ...

Climate summit leader said there’s ‘no science’ behind need to phase out fossil fuels, alarming scientists

Daisy Hips

The president of the COP28 climate summit, Sultan Al Jaber, recently claimed there is “no science” that says phasing out ...

What sea level rise will look like in cities that have hosted climate summits

Daisy Hips

As global leaders and delegates gather in Dubai for the annual UN climate summit, a new analysis shows how the ...

Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health

Daisy Hips

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious ...

US targets oil and natural gas industry’s role in global warming with new rule on methane emissions

Evan Massoud

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. ...