Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough said climate change could lead to a “collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world.”
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
U.N. says 2018 will be Earth’s 4th-warmest year on record, predicts a 5- to 9-degree temperature rise this century
The globe continued to bake in 2018, and still more warming is predicted in the decades to come. 2018 is expected to be the fourth-warmest year on record for Earth.
Extreme heat from climate change a ‘medical emergency,’ sickening tens of millions worldwide
According to a new report on climate change, the proportion of Earth’s population that’s vulnerable to heat-related death and disease continues to grow.
Wildfires more likely with hot/dry weather combo, thanks to climate change
Climate change has doubled the odds that a region will suffer the brutal combination of both hot and dry weather at the same time, a new study said.
Global carbon emissions rose in 2017, dimming hopes to rein in climate change
After three years of decline, the amount of carbon dioxide humans emitted increased in 2017, the United Nations announced.
U.S. impacts of climate change are intensifying, federal report says
The Trump Administration released a major report on climate change Friday, one that emphasizes the dire threat that human-caused global warming poses to the U.S. and its citizens.
Buried? Feds to release major climate report day after Thanksgiving
The federal government will release a major climate change report – Volume II of the National Climate Assessment – on Black Friday.
Doomed ‘pinwheel’ star system to explode in spectacular gamma-ray blast, study says
Astronomers have found a unique “pinwheel” star system in our own galaxy, one that will eventually diein a massive explosion the likes of which have never seen before.
How will the bitter cold and howling winds affect the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?
Despite a forecast of brutal, record-breaking cold on Thursday in New York City, the show –Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade – will go on.
Prehistoric ‘Swiss Army knife’ discovered in China
Forget clubs. Real ‘cave men’ actually used complex tools as far back as 170,000 years ago, a new study said.