Tag: climate change

Every winter brings some bitterly cold days, and it thus seems natural that each winter we ask why this one is so cold. Maybe the coldest we?ve had! And in the summer, it?s the same: isn?t…

With frigid Arctic weather descending on tens of millions of Americans, states have declared emergencies, mail carriers are staying inside, and there’s a risk of frostbite for exposed skin in Chicago in as little as…

WASHINGTON — Andrew Wheeler, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel Wednesday that he does not believe climate change is the “greatest crisis” and vowed to continue the…

TNS — Three years after forging the Paris climate agreement, world leaders are meeting again to decide how to turn emissions-cutting pledges into action. But as talks begin this week in Katowice, Poland, a clash…

Because President Trump is so keen on anything concerning money, the one thing that may grab his attention in the recent report on climate change is its $500 billion price tag. If we don’t take…

LOS ANGELES —The death toll from the Camp fire in the Northern California town of Paradise jumped to 42 Monday, making it the deadliest fire in state history, as President Donald Trump approved a major…

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires raged at both ends of California, officials released another grim statistic: Six more dead in a swath of Northern California wiped out by fire, raising the death toll there…

The effects of climate change are coming harder and faster, according to a recent report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, a child born today — if greenhouse gas emissions…

The warning couldn?t be any more clear and direct: Without near-immediate action, the world will fail to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a new and highly anticipated report…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists…