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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018, putting Paris climate agreement pledge in serious jeopardy
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4 percent in 2018, according to new research - a jarring increase that comes as scientists say the world needs to be aggressively...
“We are in trouble”: Global carbon emissions reached record high in 2018
Global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached the highest levels on record, scientists projected Wednesday, in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and...
Major Trump administration climate report says damages are “intensifying across the country”
The federal government on Friday released a long-awaited report with an unmistakable message: The impacts of climate change, from deadly wildfires to increasingly debilitating hurricanes and heat waves, are already...
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
The world's oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in...
Trump administration sees 7-degree rise in global temperatures
Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the...
A huge stretch of the Arctic ocean is turning into the Atlantic right before our eyes
Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and vast that in effect, it will soon be another limb...
In an internal memo, the White House considered whether to simply “ignore” federal climate research
White House officials last year weighed whether to simply "ignore" climate studies produced by government scientists or to instead develop "a coherent, fact-based message about climate science," according to a...
Someone is making a banned chemical that destroys the ozone layer, scientists suspect
Emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical are on the rise, a group of scientists reported Wednesday, suggesting someone may be secretly manufacturing the pollutant in violation of an international accord.
Humans are causing massive changes in the location of water all over the Earth, NASA says
A 14-year NASA mission has confirmed that a massive redistribution of freshwater is occurring across the Earth, with middle-latitude belts drying and the tropics and higher latitudes gaining water supplies.
Climate change could make thousands of tropical islands “uninhabitable” in coming decades, new study says
More than a thousand low-lying tropical islands risk becoming "uninhabitable" by the middle of the century - or possibly sooner - because of rising sea levels, upending the populations of...