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  • FORT MYERS BEACH, FLORIDA – JANUARY 25: In this aerial view, cleared lots are all that remain of some homes and businesses that were destroyed by Hurricane Ian on January 25, 2023 in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The process of rebuilding continues four months after the hurricane passed. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Environment

    Global warming risks ‘pushing’ fiercer hurricanes into the U.S.—especially Florida, new study says

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • BaseballEnvironment

    Climate change digs the long ball: Study finds 50 extra home runs per year because of hotter, thinner air

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Extreme weatherEnvironment

    Why does the U.S. have more extreme weather than other countries?

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Caleb Pander, 10, stands on a wall of a home destroyed by high winds in the Camp Creek Community on April 28, 2011, in Greeneville, Tenn. Meteorologists are warning of a series of severe storms that could rip across America’s Midwest and South over the next couple of weeks. One weather expert said the current persistent pattern of storm ingredients is consistent with the April 2011 tornado onslaught, one of the largest, deadliest and most destructive tornado outbreaks in American history. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)Environment

    Severe storms with likely tornadoes are scheduled to hit the Midwest and South with nearly 17 million people at high risk

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • This May 21, 2020, photo provided by Victor Gensini shows a tornado in Moscow, Kan. A new study says warming will fuel more supercells or tornados in the United States and that those storms will move eastward from their current range. (Victor Gensini via AP)Environment

    More killer tornados will hit the South as global warming creates dangerous new weather patterns, study says

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn’t as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier. (Schmidt/Lawrence/Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP)Tech

    A 13-foot-tall robot named ‘Icefin’ swam underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ and found it’s not just melting—it’s shattering

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Climate changeEnvironment

    ‘The last eight years have clearly been warmer than the years before’: 2022 was one of the 5 or 6 hottest years ever

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Exxon plantEnvironment

    Exxon scientists knew almost exactly how bad climate change would be back in the 1970s while saying the opposite publicly, study finds

    By Seth Borenstein, Cathy Bussewitz, and others
  • Extreme weatherEnvironment

    ‘With a changing climate, buckle up.’ Extreme weather caused over $165 billion of damage in 2022, NOAA says.

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Healing OzoneEnvironment

    The hole in the ozone layer could actually close in less than 50 years, UN says

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • COP27 Climate Youth ActivistsEnvironment

    Gen Z climate activists explain why their protests include defacing works of art: ‘Inherently climate change and capitalism are intertwined’

    By Seth Borenstein, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • 09 November 2022, Egypt, Sharm El-Sheikh: Activists shout slogans during a protest at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27. Photo: Gehad Hamdy/dpa (Photo by Gehad Hamdy/picture alliance via Getty Images)Environment

    ‘They’re on fire’: In-your-face climate activists expected to escalate actions, experts predict

    By Seth Borenstein, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • FILE – The sun sets behind a coal-fired power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Oct. 22, 2022. A new report from doctors and other health experts says the world’s fossil fuel addiction is making the world sicker and is killing people. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)Environment

    The world’s ‘fossil fuel addiction’ is killing 1.2 million people a year and leaving 100 million hungry, doctors say in huge new global study

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Ozone hole graphicEnvironment

    The hole in the ozone layer is now bigger than North America. Here’s why scientists say it’s actually ‘on the mend’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Homes are surrounded by flood waters caused by Hurricane IanEnvironment

    How much did climate change make Hurricane Ian worse? A computer generated 20 different scenarios and calculated it exactly

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press