Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
New York, NY, United States
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Florida in hot water as ocean temperatures rise along with the humidity
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Record global ocean heating has invaded Florida with a vengeance. → Read More
For the third time this week, Earth sets an unofficial heat record
Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial record high, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on record. → Read More
For the third time this week, Earth sets a heat record
Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on reco... → Read More
Earth’s average temperature matches record high set a day earlier
Earth’s average temperature remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week that has seen a series of climate-change-driven extremes. → Read More
For third day, it was the hottest day on Earth, as global temperature matches record set Tuesday
Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high Wednesday, after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records. It’s the latest marker... → Read More
Monday might have set a global record for hottest day ever. Then Tuesday broke it
U.S. scientists calculate that Earth had its unofficial hottest day in human record keeping Monday and then suffered an even hotter day Tuesday. → Read More
World swelters to unofficial hottest day on record Monday then gets even hotter Tuesday
The entire planet sweltered to the unofficial hottest day in human recordkeeping July 3 and then blasted past that with an even hotter day on July 4. → Read More
Monday may have set a global record for the hottest day ever. Tuesday broke it
After scientists talked about Monday’s dramatic heat, Tuesday soared 0.17 degrees Celsius (0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) even hotter, which is a huge temperature jump in terms of global averages and records. → Read More
The World May Have Just Experienced the Hottest Day Ever Recorded
The global record is preliminary, pending approval from gold-standard climate measurement entities, but it’s an indication that climate change is reaching into uncharted territory. → Read More
Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the ‘new abnormal’
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the United States and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen. → Read More
Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the ‘new abnormal’
It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of ... → Read More
Forecasters expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here’s why you’d better get used to it.
Heavy smoke from wildfires in Canada has blanketed parts of the Midwest, causing hazardous air for residents, just weeks after drifting smoke did the same thing along parts of the East Coast. → Read More
Expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here’s why you’d better get used to it
The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity. → Read More
Here’s why you better get used to a smoky stubborn summer in much of America
The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smok e from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sw... → Read More
Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains. Scientists say that’s a problem
A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type... → Read More
Beekeepers Working Harder Than Ever As Nearly Half of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Year
2022 saw the second highest honeybee death rate on record—but with a lot of hard work, beekeepers kept populations "relatively stable." → Read More
Nearly half of U.S. honeybee colonies died last year. Struggling beekeepers stabilize population
Scientists said a combination of parasites, pesticides, starvation and climate change keep causing large die-offs. → Read More
The Start of El Nino Has Officially Arrived, Says NOAA
"The onset of El Nino has implications for placing 2023 in the running for warmest year on record" when combined with climate change. → Read More
Here comes El Nino: It's early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming world
After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others → Read More
Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air hit another peak and show no signs of slowing
Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere increased to record highs in its spring peak, yet another sign that global warming isn't slowing down. → Read More