
UN: World Could Pass Temperature Limit Sooner Than Expected
A new United Nations report says the world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit.
A new United Nations report says the world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit.
Study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, used 30 years of NASA satellite data to track the effects of climate change.
More than 1,200 square miles in hundreds of wildfires triggered by lightning strikes.
Residents flee communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and California’s famed wine country as fires rage in nearby brush lands and forests.
Gov. Jared Polis issued a 30-day burn ban earlier this week as the drought consequences of global warming intensify in Colorado.
The melting ice is caused by global warming and contributes to global sea level rise and dangerous flooding along coastlines.
The Ranch Fire and Lake Fire in California have created challenges for firefighters.
It's burned more than 10,000 acres north of Los Angeles.
Winds reached as high as 100 mph across parts of Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Nearly three million people are evacuated and troops are mobilized for flood rescues after five days of torrential rains in Japan.
There's a nearly 50% chance it will be the hottest year on record.
The annual meeting will be pushed back one year to November 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
A new study found daily worldwide CO2 emissions dropped by nearly 19 million tons in early April.
The pandemic is expected to bring a decline in emissions around 8% in 2020, dwarfing declines seen during 2008's global financial crisis.
Scientists have recorded a decline in air pollution and spikes in animal activity.
Vehicle emissions are down thanks to coronavirus lockdown orders. Experts expect "substantial" benefits for health, for as long as they stay low.
The reduced industry and travel from coronavirus lockdowns is causing at least temporary reductions in emissions across whole countries.
Climate change makes El Paso's water depletion worse. But officials and researchers think they have solutions. And it's getting national attention.
Most of the financing for the fight against climate change comes from private sources. But public financiers aren't worried about making a return.
The Amazon CEO announced the Bezos Earth Fund on Monday and said he'll pledge $10 billion "to start."
It could take up to nine months to verify whether the temperature broke a record.
The energy firm announced that it will seek to cut pollution from oil and gas enterprises and step up investments in clean energy.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot had previously declared a "local disaster" after January storms caused millions of dollars of damage.
The verification process could take up to nine months.
Climate change is more than rising sea levels and stronger hurricanes. Farmers in Iowa are trying to protect their crops from more frequent floods.
The region's premier said the scale of the fires has been "unprecedented" and "we must leave no stone unturned."
For more than a decade, scientists have considered the threats from climate change when they set the symbolic Doomsday Clock.
President Trump and activist Greta Thunberg spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
Scientists estimate 1 billion animals were killed by infernos still raging around Australia. Organizations across the country are working together.
The judges said the case was "compelling," but two out of three said it's out of the court's jurisdiction.