By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
What’s considered officially “dangerous heat” in coming decades likely will hit much of the world at least three times more often as climate change worsens, according to a new study.
In much of Earth’s wealthy mid-latitudes, spiking temperatures and humidit...
By Mark Schiefelbein
The Associated Press
CHONGQING, CHINA » Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically...
By Talmon Joseph Smith
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Inside a colossal new plant, about 13 football fields long, the employees of SK Battery America are at work 24/7, essential players in the high-stakes early days of a worldwide battle to build the motors of the future.
The sweeping new clima...
By Carl Zimmer
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A team of scientists has found a cheap, effective way to destroy so-called forever chemicals, compounds that pose a global threat to human health.
The chemicals — known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are found in a spectrum of products, a...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons by 2030, a new Department of Energy analysis shows.
The first ...
By Jane Margolies
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NEW YORK » Worried about higher temperatures, more frequent and intense rainfall and rising seas that are nibbling away at New York’s coastal edges, the City Council enacted Local Law 97 in 2019 as part of a pioneering legislative package aimed at...
By Zeke Miller and Seung Min Kim
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing wit...
By John Leicester and Nicholas Garriga
The Associated Press
PARIS » Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights.
Click. Click. Click. One by one, the o...
By Maria Abi-Habib and Bryan Avelar
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Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water.
An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly twothirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for...
By Lee Keath
The Associated Press
CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity.
The Middle East is one of the most vul...
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s for...
By Thomas Fuller
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SALEM, ORE. » A giant earthquake. A huge flood. Wildfires followed by choking smoke. An ice storm that knocks out power for days.
Four years ago, a group of employees at the Oregon State Treasury sat down and compiled a list of every conceivable d...
One of Earth Protect’s founding Advisory Council Members, Dr Hugh Lavery AM, has published a sequel to the baseline account of environmental management set out in 1978 in his Exploration North: Australia’s Wildlife from Desert to Reef.
Again using Queensland as an illustrative focus, Conser...
Residents can expect 12% premium rise for home insurance
By Aldo Svaldi
The Denver Post
Colorado over the past 20 years has suffered more major natural disasters than Florida and is among nine states where the number of events causing $1 billion or more in damage has more than tripled ove...
Hurrah to all the Earth Protectors out there who day by day live their lives at home, at work and in their communities
in ways that lead to a sustainable life on Earth. We honor you and celebrate you and this amazing and beautiful Earth.
By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
BERLIN » Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inac...
As the West gets drier, Colorado tries to get every drop of moisture it can out of winter snowstorms
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
All across Colorado, teams of cloud seeders keep watch over the winter months, looking for the right conditions to make water.
Snow, to be precise. But t...
By Maggie Astor
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Startlingly large amounts of methane are leaking from wells and pipelines in New Mexico, according to a new analysis of aerial data, suggesting that the oil and gas industry may be contributing more to climate change than previously was know...
By Christopher Flavelle, Julie Tate and Erin Schaff
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GRANT TOWN, W.VA. » On a hilltop overlooking Paw Paw Creek, 15 miles south of the Pennsylvania border, looms a fortresslike structure with a single smokestack, the only viable business in a dying Appalachian town....
By Sabrina Valle
HOUSTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) on Wednesday outlined plans to advance its clean energy transition business, including spending between $800 million and $1 billion on a facility to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air.The proposed facility, the world'...
