by Mark Gongloff The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that […]
Tag: global warming
Do you want good or bad news on tornadoes and hurricanes?
by Mark Gongloff If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents […]
Three seasons in 24 hours stump climate change deniers
by Mark Gongloff Spring doesn’t officially begin for more than three weeks, but it came early to Chicago this week, with temperatures hitting a pleasant 74 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday afternoon. […]
COP28 needs less talk, more action
In 2015, the world’s governments declared a collective ambition: to limit the rise in global temperatures to just 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, two things have become clear. First, the […]
Young people sue over climate change. Good for them
Young people are finally learning how to play the game — and how to win. In Montana, 16 people between the ages of 5 and 22 just successfully sued the […]
More bad news on the climate
A study published in the journal Nature Communications this past week suggests part of the Atlantic Ocean’s most important circulation system is on the verge of collapse. Scientists have been […]
Yacht-busting orcas and board-stealing otters? The Earth is angry
by LZ Granderson A handful of college students caught a record-breaking 19-foot Burmese python in Florida recently. That’s longer than the width of an NFL goal post. Jake Waleri, an […]
The catastrophe du jour
King Charles III has launched a catastrophe countdown clock. It will tick until 2030, a year in which he predicts “serious consequences” if the world doesn’t effectively address “climate change.” […]
Montana may be seeing the first youth climate revolt
This is hardly a scientific sampling, but a high school teacher in the Dallas area tells me that her students have two big worries: One is getting shot to death. […]
Oceans are heating up. El Nino will make it worse
by Faye D. Flam Even if you hate the beach, live inland and aren’t bothered by dwindling fish, the latest spike in ocean temperature matters to you. The ocean is […]
