Global warming

The U.N. weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years

A Siberian town with the world’s widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires.

This year is on track to be one of the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which also announced Thursday that last month had tied the previous record for the warmest May in recorded history.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.

We should be relishing in a decade of success for our city. Philadelphia, after all, served as a destination for pontiffs and presidential candidates. Women took power over Pennsylvania politics. The skyline grew taller. A Super Bowl victory parade really happened on South Broad Street. Still, roughly 1-in-4 city residents live in poverty and a neighborhood once considered one of…

Climate change is making stronger El Niños, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new study finds. Scientists examined 33 El Niños — natural warming of equatorial Pacific that triggers weather extremes across the globe — since 1901. They found since the 1970s, El Niños have been forming farther to the west in warmer waters,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wishes he could travel back in time like the cyborg he played in “The Terminator” so he could stop fossil fuels from being used. “If we would’ve never started in that direction and used other technology, we’d be much better off,” the actor and former California governor said Monday at the start of a U.N. climate...

The federal government’s National Climate Assessment says that climate change will unleash heat waves that make Chicago feel like Las Vegas, bring disease-carrying mosquitoes to Florida year-round, warm oceans enough to drive lobsters from Maine and more, NBC News reports. This version of the report, released over Thanksgiving weekend, gives many examples of the impact of climate change on the...

A senior U.S. diplomat says Washington will continue to take part in talks about implementing the Paris climate accord, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to pull out of the pact. Trump announced in June that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement unless he can get a better deal for the United States. Trigg Talley, the U.S....

A new global study says deadly heat waves will grow in frequency, intensity and duration, affecting 75 percent of the world’s population if greenhouse emissions are not reduced.

In a Wednesday afternoon appearance at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, President Donald Trump promised to revisit federal regulations of fuel efficient cars and trucks set by the Obama Administration as part of their strategy to combat global warming. Trump also promised a “big announcement” in regards to the auto industry for next week.

With a subject as politically sensitive as climate change, we need to be careful about how far we go with the headlines.

We will end March 2016 shortly, and it is assured to be one of the warmest ones in the recorded history of Philadelphia. It also means that we will have gone an ENTIRE YEAR with every month having above normal temperatures. (March is unofficial, of course)

What are the odds that 4 of the Top 5 biggest snowstorms occurred in the past 20 years, when we’ve been keeping official records for 145 years? And that 3 of the Top 4 have occurred in the past SEVEN years? And that every one of the Top 5 has occurred since 1983? Something seems “odd”.

Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he calls the “structurally perverse” economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an “immense pile of filth.”

Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sounded the alarm Thursday in Miami Beach about the potentially crippling effects climate change and rising sea levels could have on the city and accused change skeptics of “avoiding reality.”