Modern-day meteorologists rely on a vast network of advanced technologies to predict the weather, but that wasn’t always the case. Before satellites, computer modeling, and radar systems, people…
Read more How to Become a Backyard Meteorologist With a Few Simple ToolsSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he’ll settle…
Read more UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissionsSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he’ll settle…
Read more UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissionsNinety percent of the counties in the United States suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a report published Wednesday. Some endured as many as…
Read more Report: 90% of US counties hit with disaster in last decadeSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science warnings that this will push…
Read more Climate activist blasts leaders holding onto fossil projectsSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Hydrogen cars and vehicles that capture their tailpipe pollutants. Computer mice made from recycled ocean waste plastic. Hundreds of millions of trees planted in…
Read more Saudi Arabia has ‘green vision’ at COP27, critics unmovedSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — As the U.N. climate talks in Egypt near the half-way point, negotiators are working hard to draft deals on a wide range of issues…
Read more UN climate talks near halftime with key issues unresolvedSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to international climate talks in Egypt this week with a message that historic American action to fight climate…
Read more US to climate summit: American big steps won’t be repealedAs Sharon Wilson pulled up to the BP site in Texas last June, production tanks towered above the windblown grass roughly 60 miles southeast of San Antonio. Cows…
Read more Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failingMost of the world’s population has been affected in some way by climate change — 85% of the world, in fact. But the effects of climate change haven’t…
Read more Climate Questions: Who is most vulnerable to climate change?Can people’s individual actions make a difference in how much carbon dioxide is emitted on an international scale? International organizations like the United Nations have called on individuals…
Read more Climate Questions: Does what I do matter?ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his Illinois farm when the dew burns off in the morning. This year, dry weather accelerated the…
Read more Drought snarls Mississippi River transit in blow to farmersLISBON, Portugal — A prize worth 1 million euros ($970,000) is being awarded to two intergovernmental bodies for their work on climate change. Organizers of the annual Gulbenkian…
Read more International climate change bodies win humanity awardCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. But if they…
Read more Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient MarsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. But if they…
Read more Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient MarsTUCSON, Ariz. — A former University of Arizona graduate student arrested in the fatal shooting of a hydrology professor was being held without bond Friday after a judge…
Read more Ex-grad student held in Arizona professor’s fatal shootingTUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona has released the name of a professor who authorities said was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student. University…
Read more Police: Ex-grad student kills Arizona professor on campusDrought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — was made 20 times more likely by…
Read more Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likelyWASHINGTON — Methane escaping from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines that run between Russia and Europe is likely to result in the biggest known gas leak to take…
Read more Baltic Sea pipeline leak damages marine life and climate
