Isabella O'malley
About Isabella O'malley
Reporter with The Associated Press
U.S. carbon removal industry group calls for regulation
A report Wednesday by the Carbon Removal Alliance, a nonprofit representing the industry, outlined recommendations to improve monitoring, reporting, and verification. Currently the only regulations in the U.S. are related to safety of these projects.
Some lab-grown diamonds come with cloudy sustainability claims
How sustainable they are is questionable, since making a diamond requires an enormous amount of energy and many major manufacturers are not transparent about their operations.
Superstar Taylor Swift’s jet travel raising questions
The hitmaker whose dominance of pop culture now includes the first tour to gross more than $1 billion, is the latest in a long list of celebrities, government officials and elite businesspeople to come under scrutiny about private jet travel.
With climate talks set to begin next week, UN chief Guterres visits crucial Antarctica
On the cusp of the COP28 climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited frozen-but-rapidly melting Antarctica on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, and said intense action must be taken at the conference where countries will address their commitments to lowering emissions of planet-warming gases.
Last 12 months on Earth the hottest ever recorded
The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has ever recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group.
Deadly flooding is hitting various countries worldwide. Scientists say expect more in the future
Schools in New Delhi were forced to close on Monday after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital, with landslides and flash floods killing at least 15 people over the last three days. Farther north, the overflowing Beas River swept vehicles downstream as it flooded neighborhoods.
Third unofficial heat record for Earth in just one week
Earth's average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, July 6, 2023, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on record.