Seth Borenstein

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  • economyEnvironment

    The billion-dollar storm? Economists debate how much activity Winter Storm Fern laid waste to

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • mckibbenEnvironment

    Electricity as the new eggs: Affordability concerns will swing the midterms just like the 2024 election, Bill McKibben says

    By Seth Borenstein, Amanda Swinhart, and others
  • Asian woman drinking soft drink in living room, wearing a pink shirt.Health

    Climate change is making Americans crave soda to the tune of 100 million pounds of added sugar a year, new study finds

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Heat waveEnvironment

    ‘Not your grandparents’ summers’: 70 million east coast Americans just had the muggiest June and July in history

    By Seth Borenstein, M.K. Wildeman, and others
  • A child covers his face while a stream of water pours down at Waterfront Park on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)Environment

    Heat dome bringing ‘near historic ’ heat wave settles over Northeast: ‘Like an air fryer, it’s going to be hot’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Chevron Richmond Refinery in this view from Point Richmond, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)Environment

    Saudi Aramco, Chevron, and 109 of the world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage alone—and people want them to pay up

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • A woman holds up a sign that says "Save NOAA"Politics

    DOGE just ordered 1,000 job cuts at the U.S. agency that monitors the weather. A former administrator says ‘this is not government efficiency’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Youths cool off in a pool during a summer afternoon in the Costanera neighborhood of Asuncion, Paraguay, Jan 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)Environment

    The U.S. is abnormally cold and La Niña usually eases warming, but Earth just set another heat record anyway

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Fire crews monitor the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Environment

    Climate change made California wildfires more likely and more intense, scientific study finds

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 08: The Eaton Fire burns through a neighborhood on January 08, 2025 in Altadena, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Eaton Fire has grown to over 10,000 acres and has destroyed many homes and businesses. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Environment

    Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • A person in a blue hat and denim jacket participates in a snowball fightEnvironment

    How cold blasts are paradoxically caused by global warming, as freezing polar vortex sweeps U.S.

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A woman carries a child as she wades through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)Environment

    Climate change has made hurricane winds 18 mph stronger since 2019, study says

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • People tend to vegetables growing in a field as emission rises from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China’s economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    COP29 reveals world’s most polluting states and provinces are all in China—except for one U.S. exception

    By Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, and others
  • A hand-pulled rickshaw moves through thick smoke caused by the burning of coal ovens in an alley in Kolkata, India, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Environment

    Carbon emissions increase again in 2024 as Earth races toward 1.5 degree warming threshold

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Resident Kerry Flynn, right, and a friend walk past a damaged home and the displaced roof of their 55+ mobile home community’s tiki hut after the passage of Hurricane Milton, on Manasota Key, in Englewood, Fla., Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Finance

    Hurricanes Helene and Milton are both likely to cost more than $50 billion, joining ranks of priciest disasters

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press