Seth Borenstein
Reporter for The Associated Press
About Seth Borenstein
New climate bill pushes U.S. toward cheap, clean energy
After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.
Climate change likely upped the temperatures in UK heat wave
Human−caused climate change made last week’s deadly heat wave in England and Wales at least 10 times more likely and added a few degrees to how brutally hot it got, a study said.
How heavy snow and rain flooded Yellowstone
Rivers and creeks this week raged with water much higher and faster than even the rare benchmark 500-year flood. Weather-whiplashed residents and government officials raced to save homes, roads and businesses.
The ethics of tinkering with the Earth's atmosphere to tackle climate change
Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
UN says climate disasters a harbinger of more to come
A disaster−weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued on Monday, April 25, 2022 says.
One of the world's worst greenhouse gases, methane increases at record rates
Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday, February 7, 2022, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.
Newest IPCC climate report reveals 'a litany of broken climate promises': UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
US coastline could experience a century's worth of sea rise in just 30 years
America's coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns.
UN puts finishing touches on bleak climate change science report
Scientists and governments will meet on Monday, February 14, 2022, to finish a major United Nations report on how global warming disrupts people's lives, their natural environment and the Earth itself. Don’t expect a flowery valentine to the planet: instead an activist group predicted “a nightmare painted in the dry language of science.”
When measuring climate change, don’t forget about the humidity
A team of scientists in the U.S. and China decided to use an obscure weather measurement called equivalent potential temperature — or theta-e — that reflects “the moisture energy of the atmosphere.”