Seth Borenstein
US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds
American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the...
Global hot streak continues with record-breaking high temperatures
WASHINGTON — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the...
Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort
Record hot seawater has killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys
For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition
For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change,...
System of Atlantic Ocean currents approaches ‘cliff-like’ tipping point, could collapse, study says
An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more...
Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s ‘lost winter’
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency. That...
New UN weather agency chief says rate of global warming is speeding up
BALTIMORE (AP) — The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change...
Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts...
UN climate chief’s blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change
To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more...
