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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
Burgers produced from animal cells in a laboratory. (YouTube screenshot)
September 17, 2017, 4:44 pm
China makes massive investment in Israeli lab meat technology
$300 million deal sees Chinese partner with Israeli high-tech companies battling global warming
By Sue Surkes
Al Gore, center, with filmmaking couple Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 24, 2017. The duo produced a documentary follow up 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' to Gore's Oscar-winning first film on climate change. (Courtesy SJFF)
July 28, 2017, 12:37 pm
Ahead of nationwide release, Al Gore presents an ‘Inconvenient’ sequel at SF Jewish Film Festival
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power' condemns Trump, calls for grassroots activism
By Lisa Klug
Researchers from the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat monitor coral growth while scuba diving on June 12, 2017 in the Red Sea off Eilat. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
June 21, 2017, 10:51 am
Gulf of Eilat corals probed for secret to surviving global warming
Colorful marine life, seemingly impervious to high temperatures, may be longest to survive significant climate change
By Jonah Mandel
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi briefs journalists at a press conference in Tehran on August 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 4, 2017, 10:03 am
Iran says Trump’s climate pact withdrawal will isolate US
Tehran urges world to compel Washington to implement international commitments
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks about the US role in the Paris climate change accord, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
June 1, 2017, 11:09 pm
Trump says US will abandon global climate accord
President says US ceasing all implementation of Paris accord immediately, negotiating re-entry not a major priority
By Agencies
In this February 14, 2017 photo, taken against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, a rooftop is covered with solar panels at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
June 1, 2017, 2:14 pm
US states will keep battling global warming, with or without Trump
President 'up against the rest of the world, not to mention science itself... And it's very obvious who's going to win,' says California governor
By John Flesher
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, third from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, signs an Energy Independence Executive Order, March 28, 2017, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
March 28, 2017, 11:55 pm
Trump tosses Obama’s ‘clean’ energy plan, embraces coal
US president declares 'the start of a new era,' as he undoes plan to curb global warming in order to save fossil fuel jobs
By Matthew Daly and Jill Colvin
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