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Biden Declares Major Disaster in Texas as Federal Aid Flows
The extreme winter weather that left residents of Texas and other Southern states shivering through an unseasonal cold spell is testing President Joe Biden’s disaster management skills
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Five Years On, Signs That Paris Climate Accord Is Working
Five years after the historic climate deal in Paris, world leaders are again meeting to increase efforts to fight global warming
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Climate Change Has Already Caused So Much Damage, But Here's Why One Top Scientist Still Has Hope
If we stop burning fossil fuels cold turkey, the planet’s temperature crisis may stabilize within a few years, says climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann. He joins LX News to give a reality check about our dangerous climate crisis and explain what humans can still do to prevent a catastrophe.
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Hurricanes Stay Stronger Longer After Landfall Than in Past
A new study finds that hurricanes are staying stronger longer after striking land than they did decades ago, and that means more destruction inland
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Scientists Return From Arctic With Wealth of Climate Data
An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany
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Pence, Harris Spar Over Climate Change
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., discussed how their respective administrations would combat climate change. Pence was specifically asked if he believed climate change was real, and Harris was asked if she supported the Green New Deal.
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Leaders to UN: If Virus Doesn't Kill Us, Climate Change Will
In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view
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Record Melt: Greenland Lost 586 Billion Tons of Ice in 2019
A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in a record melt last year
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UN: World Could Hit 1.5-degree Warming Threshold by 2024
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
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Temperature Hits 100 F Degrees in Arctic Russian Town
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.
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2020 on Track to Be One of the Warmest Years on Record
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.
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Amazon CEO Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Climate Change
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.
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Very Philly Decade: Highs and Lows of 2010s
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…
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Climate Change Making Stronger El Niños, Study Finds
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,...
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Schwarzenegger Would Time Travel to Terminate Fossil Fuels
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...
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Heat Waves, Mosquito Outbreaks, Landslides: 6 Ways Climate Change Is Hitting the US
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...
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US Will Continue Participation in Climate Talks
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....
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Study: Earth's Killer Heat Waves Will Only Get Worse
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.
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Trump to Reverse Obama-Era Fuel Standards for Auto Industry
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.
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Glenn's Blog: Hurricane Matthew and Climate Change
With a subject as politically sensitive as climate change, we need to be careful about how far we go with the headlines.