By Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temper...
$1 billion or more events
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.
T...
Now that last month’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.
July’s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (si...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far more often in a warming world, becoming a frequent occurrence, a new study said.
That fire-flood combination, ...
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...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Earth simmered to the sixth-hottest year on record in 2021, according to several newly released temperature measurements.
And scientists say the exceptionally hot year is part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints of accelerating.
Two U.S. agencies...
By Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan and Jennifer Steinhauer © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncer...
U.N.: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall
By Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten
The Associated Press
GENEVA » Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency ...
A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview of the decades ahead.

By Bob Berwyn
August 9, 2021
Amidst a summer of fires, floods and heat waves, scientists on Monday de...
Article from: Denver Post - June 11, 2021
THE OPEN FORUM
Dan Danbom, Denver
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that carbon dioxide levels were above 419 parts per million in May, never this high in our lifetimes.
Climate scientists t...
Biden doubles funding to prepare for natural disasters, keeping climate change in focus
Biden announced a 100% increase in funding during a visit to FEMA on Monday.
ByLibby Cathey
May 24, 2021, 12:27 PM
President Joe Biden announced he's directing $1 billion into natural disaster mitigation reso...
Earth Day 2021 5 Top Stories on Environment in 2021
1. COP 26The 26th COP, or the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, will be held in Glasgow, UK this November. It will see a gathering of world leaders to convene on the most pressing climate change issues. Most importantly, COP may h...
Combat climate change, Letter to Editor, The Denver Post, October 13. 2020 Peter Fessenden, Highlands Ranch, CO
COVID-19 is a crisis. Much worse, particularly for future generations, is human-caused climate change. Many years of research yield a four-part solution.
Step 1: Education as to ho...
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By Cara Anna
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG» In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at the annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn’t kill us, climate change will.
With Siberia seeing its warmest t...
Shared from the 9/10/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
CLIMATE AND DISASTERS
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’...
Shared from the 8/21/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 4 feet of water, a new study said.
After two years when summer ice melt had be...
Shared from the 1/16/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
Tourists at Lake Conjola, a popular holiday destination in Australia, take refuge on a beach from wildfires Tuesday. This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia’s history, with at least 1...
