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President Donald Trump crosses the South Lawn on his return to the White House, Saturday Oct. 13, 2018, in Washington, after a trip to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
October 15, 2018, 4:34 am
Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source
President believes that it will change back again and doesn’t want to give ‘trillions of dollars’ or lose ‘millions of jobs’ to combat global warming
By AP
In this Oct. 26, 2015 file photo, fish swim over a patch of bleached coral in Hawaii's Kaneohe Bay off the island of Oahu. Warmer water is repeatedly causing mass global bleaching events to Earth's fragile coral reefs. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones,)
October 8, 2018, 5:58 am
UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
Report written by 90 scientists says preventing an extra single degree of heat could drastically improve life for millions, but sees little chance of it actually happening
By Seth Borenstein
This September 7, 2017 satellite image made available by NOAA shows the eye of Hurricane Irma, left, just north of the island of Hispaniola, with Hurricane Jose, right, in the Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)
September 28, 2018, 11:18 am
Warm waters boosted 2017’s major hurricane tally, study says
Rising global temperatures due to human-made and natural causes could see 5 to 8 major hurricanes a year by century’s end
By Seth Borenstein
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office in Washington, DC, September 11, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
September 12, 2018, 8:11 pm
Majority of French no longer see US as trusted ally, poll finds
Only 44% view America as a friend that can be relied on and 54% have a ‘very bad opinion’ of Trump; 88% say administration harming fight against global warming
By AFP
Black kites and White storks fly over the Dudaim landfill site near Beersheba, southern Israel, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 24, 2018, 12:25 am
Israel seeing early flocks of migrating storks amid hot European summer
After heading south from Poland, stork seen nesting in Beit She’an Valley, the only known nesting site below sea level
By AP and Michael Bachner
FILE- In this Oct. 17, 2014, file photo, a thick blanket of smoke is seen against the setting sun as young ragpickers search for reusable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi, India (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
August 11, 2018, 2:50 pm
Fossil fuel pollution will render parts of Earth uninhabitable, warn researchers
Scientists say a tipping point ‘could be only decades ahead,’ causing sea levels to rise up to 200 feet — and a domino effect may speed the process even more
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Screen capture from video of social scientist Mayer Hillman. (YouTube)
April 29, 2018, 7:47 pm
UK academic: It’s too late to stop climate change, ‘we’re doomed’
Mayer Hillman tells Guardian that only a total cut in global carbon emission can save humanity — and that isn’t going to happen
By Stuart Winer
Children play in a water fountain on a hot summer day near the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem on a hot summer day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 5:44 pm
Study: Israel’s summer to get hotter, longer
Scientists at Tel Aviv University expect region’s summertime to expand from four to six months by 2100
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: A Palestinian boy cools off with water from a jerrycan held by a man during a heatwave at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
January 18, 2018, 7:20 pm
New study rules out worst-case global warming scenarios
Report slashes more than half of possible end-of-century outcomes, says world unlikely to see increase of four or five degrees by then
By Marlowe HOOD
Waves crash over a seawall at the mouth of the Miami River from Biscayne Bay, Florida., as Hurricane Irma passes by, Sempember 10, 2017, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
January 8, 2018, 8:42 pm
2017 the most costly year in US history for natural disasters
As annual temperatures rise, hurricanes, wildfires, freezes, and floods lead to at least 360 deaths, cause damage of $306 billion
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Former United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan poses during a photo session in Paris, December 11, 2017. (JOEL SAGET/AFP)
December 12, 2017, 4:57 pm
Leaders needed to fix global ‘mess,’ says Kofi Annan
Members of The Elders group speak about the state of international affairs in the era of the Trump administration
By Katy Lee and Adam PLOWRIGHT
A projection of the Earth and its biosphere derived from two decades of satellite data starting in September 1997 going through September 2017. (NASA via AP)
November 19, 2017, 6:33 am
Highlighting climate change, NASA maps Earth’s seasons over 20 years
Two decades of shifts in global temperatures from 1997-2007 packed into two and a half minutes of striking footage
By Marcia Dunn
An Indian man rides a bike amid heavy smog on a street of New Delhi on November 10, 2017. (AFP/DOMINIQUE FAGET)
November 13, 2017, 1:59 pm
Scientists bemoan ‘giant leap backward’ as CO₂ emissions resume their rise
Finding comes after recent plateau of carbon dioxide emissions that drive global warming raised expectations that world had turned corner
By Marlowe HOOD
Demonstrators costumed as US President Donald Trump and polar bears protest against the climate change during climate conference COP in Bonn, western Germany, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)
November 11, 2017, 11:58 pm
US cities and states defy Trump, still back Paris climate deal
‘The American government may have pulled out of the agreement, but the American people are committed to its goals,’ former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg says
By Frank Jordans and Dorothee Thiesing
Participants at the World Climate Conference working in front of the depiction of a globe in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday, November 7, 2017. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)
November 7, 2017, 8:32 pm
Syria to join Paris climate pact, leaving US only nation to opt out
Representative from war-torn country declares intention to sign 196-nation treaty during UN conference in Germany
By AFP
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