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PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Athletes sail in a boat along the river Seine as rain starts at the start of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Environment
Paris ‘flipped the coin’ and took a €1.4 billion gamble against climate change with its plan for the Olympics—and lost
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2024
How extreme heat can turn deadly: It confuses your brain, shuts down your organs, and overworks your heart
Health
How extreme heat can turn deadly: It confuses your brain, shuts down your organs, and overworks your heart
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressJune 21, 2024
Climate change caused by fossil fuels made killer heat wave in U.S. and Mexico 2.5 degrees hotter and 35 times more likely, scientists say
Environment
Climate change caused by fossil fuels made killer heat wave in U.S. and Mexico 2.5 degrees hotter and 35 times more likely, scientists say
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressJune 20, 2024
Simon Stiell
Environment
Humanity has just 2 years ‘to save the world,’ UN climate chief says
By Seth Borenstein, Jamey Keaten and The Associated PressApril 10, 2024
T.J. Rauls
Environment
‘Cicada-geddon’ will hit America for first time since 1803, expert says: ‘Trillions of these amazing living organisms [coming] out of the Earth’
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressApril 1, 2024
As John Kerry steps down from climate role, he sees a ‘vast change in the marketplace’
Environment
As John Kerry steps down from climate role, he sees a ‘vast change in the marketplace’
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressMarch 5, 2024
After the hottest year ever, January is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree Paris Accords threshold
Environment
After the hottest year ever, January is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree Paris Accords threshold
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressJanuary 9, 2024
Power plants
Environment
Nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide were pumped into the air in 2023, twice the amount from 40 years ago, Global Carbon Project tells COP
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressDecember 5, 2023
John Kerry
Environment
John Kerry says U.S. stands with 56 countries committed to phasing out coal power plants entirely
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2023
A person carries sand bags through a flooded street
Environment
The U.S. is warming 60% faster than the world is, National Climate Assessment says: ‘We are not prepared for what’s coming’
By Seth Borenstein, Tammy Webber and The Associated PressNovember 14, 2023
Antarctica
Environment
Study gets real on climate change: Antarctica faces the ‘unavoidable’ melting of enough ice to raise sea levels nearly 6 feet
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressOctober 24, 2023
Atlantic hurricanes are twice as likely to go from wimpy to catastrophic in 24 hours than in decades past
Environment
Atlantic hurricanes are twice as likely to go from wimpy to catastrophic in 24 hours than in decades past
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressOctober 19, 2023
‘We’re in a fossil trap’: U.S. oil production hits an all-time high despite the huge push for green energy
Environment
‘We’re in a fossil trap’: U.S. oil production hits an all-time high despite the huge push for green energy
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressOctober 13, 2023
September was so hot climate scientists are calling it ‘mind-blowing’
Environment
September was so hot climate scientists are calling it ‘mind-blowing’
By Seth Borenstein and The Associated PressOctober 5, 2023
Bill Gates
Environment
Bill Gates sees ‘a lot of climate exaggeration’ out there: ‘The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine’
By Seth Borenstein, Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressSeptember 20, 2023
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