Climate

When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in Nepal last month, Pema Tamang and her neighbours fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had…

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand the potential link between global warming and El Niño — and whether human activity is making the already powerful climate phenomenon even more…

Highlighting South Asia’s severe vulnerability, Pisupati noted that the region is caught in a web of overlapping crises. “South Asia is challenged by demographic pressures, income inequality, unequal access to…

The severe fires ravaging parts of Spain, France, and the western U.S. and Canada represent some consequences of anthropogenic climate change denial. This crisis is not an academic conjecture but…

As climate-fuelled disasters intensify, political leaders should stop treating discussion of their causes as untimely and confront the consequences of continued inaction. Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah said last week’s…

Canadians will have to prepare for a future that’s 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change. The second edition of Canada’s Changing…

In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze. The unrelenting…

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have determined that human-driven greenhouse gas emissions are causing an unprecedented breakdown in the historical climate interactions between the tropical Indian and Pacific…

WRGB Studios-Schenectady, NY — This week, a United Nations report found that the Earth has missed its opportunity to prevent major global warming impacts, saying the planet has warmed above…

The Trump administration is continuing it’s war on climate science. This time, instead of attacking climate science in general, as they tried (and failed) to do with the DOE Climate…

A West Point professor who claims he was stifled, then had his contract canceled for teaching humans are a major cause of climate change, is suing three current and former…

When forecasting climate change, scientists usually opt to determine what the climate will look like at a specific point in time, for example in 2050, or in 2100. In a…

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand the potential link between global warming and El Niño — and whether human activity is making the already powerful climate phenomenon even more…

The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger zone” of extreme…

The report the UN released in Nairobi this week is the first of its kind, and it opens by conceding defeat on the number the world spent a decade defending….

For over a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C. That’s no longer possible, according to a new United Nations report. We will likely pass…

A federal judge has blocked New York’s attempt to make major fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion toward the cost of climate change. Enacted in 2024, the Climate Change Superfund…

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s…

A United Nations report is urging the world to zero out carbon emissions to prevent cataclysmic warming of the planet, even as others have said a more measured approach to…

KOROR, Palau (AP) — When stormy seas batter Melekeok state on Palau’s biggest island, the Pacific Ocean floods right into people’s homes. “We keep telling the legislature we need to…

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s…

It’s been over a decade since countries signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty aimed at limiting global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius). At the time, staying…

The prime minister has defended the number of leaders attending a high-profile climate meeting in the Pacific Islands, as a United Nations report warns the world will breach the 1.5C…

Global warming is set to cross the 1.5C limit within the next few years, exposing people and ecosystems to more severe climate damage, the UN’s environmental agency said on Wednesday….

Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction…

Governments must slash emissions further and faster, and keep every climate promise they have made for the planet to be able to return to 1.5C of warming by the end…

Sea-level rise around the world is accelerating due to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the rise to-date is ‘essentially irreversible’ on human timescales. But a swift and timely switch away from fossil…

Climate campaigners are urging New York’s attorney general to appeal, while experts are split over what the ruling means for other states — including Vermont, which has a similar law…

Newswise — As you prepare stories regarding El Niño, landslides, extreme weather events, climate change and natural disasters, the following experts are available: Oceans and Atmospheric Rivers Joseph Carlin, professor…