Seth Borenstein

The CHS oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in McPherson, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 — and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold

January 9, 2025 at 9:32 p.m.

Three government climate agencies in Europe and Japan say last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept pushing even higher.

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire around a burned structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?

January 9, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.

Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar.

La tormenta invernal en Florence, Kentucky, el 6 de enero del 2025. (AP foto/Carolyn Kaster)

Por qué el calentamiento global podría traer más olas de frío

January 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.

Lo que realmente significa para la gente común en las áreas donde llega el frío: brrrrr.

A lone jogger traverses the Lake Michigan shoreline on a bike and running path in below freezing temperatures Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold

January 3, 2025 at 10:50 a.m.

A strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States as frigid air escapes the Arctic, plunging as far...

Activists demonstrate in silence protesting a draft of a proposed deal for curbing climate change at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A $300B a year deal for climate cash at UN summit sparks outrage for some and hope for others

November 23, 2024 at 7:34 p.m.

United Nations climate talks adopted a deal to inject at least $300 billion annually in humanity’s fight against climate change, aimed at helping developing nations cope with the ravages of...

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)

Climate change goosed hurricane wind strength by 18 mph since 2019, study says

November 20, 2024 at 7:15 a.m.

Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found.

Ron Rook, who said he was looking for people in need of help or debris to clear, walks through windy and rainy conditions on a deserted street in downtown Tampa, Fla., during the approach of Hurricane Milton, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Here’s what has made Hurricane Milton so fierce and unusual

October 9, 2024 at 6:54 p.m.

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears.

This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (Princeton University via AP and Noah Berger/AP Photo)

Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics

October 8, 2024 at 4:40 p.m.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning.

FILE – Debris is visible in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Sept. 30, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Hurricanes like Helene are deadly when they strike and keep killing for years to come

October 2, 2024 at 8:38 p.m.

The average storm hitting the U.S. contributes to the early deaths of 7,000 to 11,000 people over a 15-year period, which dwarfs the average of 24 immediate and direct deaths...

City workers remove garbage floating on the Negro River, which has a rising water level due to rain, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

The world is pumping out 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year

September 4, 2024 at 6:13 p.m.

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to...

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