Today: October 05, 2024
Today: October 05, 2024

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Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

The NASA astronaut who commanded the dress rehearsal mission for the 1969 moon landing has died

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93
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Meteorologists say this year's warm winter provided key ingredient for Midwest killer tornadoes

Tornado experts say the winter’s record warmth provided the key ingredient for a Midwest outbreak of deadly tornadoes and damaging gorilla hail that hit parts of the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday

Meteorologists say this year's warm winter provided key ingredient for Midwest killer tornadoes
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Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record

Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter

Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record
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Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world's oceans all break high temperature marks.

Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records

Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world's oceans all break high temperature marks.
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Scientists create new idea on how to hack a warming planet: drying the upper atmosphere

Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier

Scientists create new idea on how to hack a warming planet: drying the upper atmosphere
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Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort

Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years

Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort
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Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category
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Ocean sponges suggest Earth has warmed longer, more than thought; some scientists dubious

A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused climate change began sooner and has warmed the world nearly a degree Fahrenheit more than most scientists previously thought

Ocean sponges suggest Earth has warmed longer, more than thought; some scientists dubious
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UN climate chief's blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change

The United Nations' climate chief says to keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations

UN climate chief's blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change
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US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it's climate change

While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather

US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it's climate change
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Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening

The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary

Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening
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Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says

Earth shattered global annual heat records last year and it's flirting with the warming threshold that nations wanted to stay within to avoid the worst consequences of climate change

Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says
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Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water

New research shows that the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics

Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
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Experts at odds over result of UN climate talks in Dubai; 'Historic,' 'pipsqueak' or something else?

The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that everyone accepted, at times grudgingly

Experts at odds over result of UN climate talks in Dubai; 'Historic,' 'pipsqueak' or something else?
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World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation

A team of scientists reported that the world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation
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Gore blasts COP28 climate chief and oil companies' emissions pledges at UN summit

Former Vice President Al Gore says don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution and he adds that the man running United Nations climate talks runs one of the dirtiest oil companies out there

Gore blasts COP28 climate chief and oil companies' emissions pledges at UN summit
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US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

The United States is now committed to the idea of phasing out coal power plants, joining 56 other nations in kicking the coal habit

US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate
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Pressure builds to eliminate fossil fuel use as oil executive takes over climate talks

The pressure to phase out fossil fuels is mounting on the oil company chief who is leading fragile international climate negotiations in what some say are contradictory dual roles

Pressure builds to eliminate fossil fuel use as oil executive takes over climate talks
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Climate contradictions key at UN talks. Less future warming projected, yet there's more current pain

Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated

Climate contradictions key at UN talks. Less future warming projected, yet there's more current pain
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UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge

A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold

UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
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Two grim reports on global climate efforts highlight increased fossil fuel subsidies, ill health

Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies

Two grim reports on global climate efforts highlight increased fossil fuel subsidies, ill health
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Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds

A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change

Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds
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Pioneering scientist says global warming is accelerating. Some experts call his claims overheated

One of modern climate science’s pioneers is warning that the world isn’t just steadily warming, but is dangerously accelerating

Pioneering scientist says global warming is accelerating. Some experts call his claims overheated
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Climate scientist Saleemul Huq, who emphasized helping poor nations adapt to warming, dies at 71

Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died

Climate scientist Saleemul Huq, who emphasized helping poor nations adapt to warming, dies at 71
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In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate

A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate

In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate

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