Projected system-wide price for the Texas electricity grid on 20 August 2023. By 8:00 PM, the price was expected to rise to nearly $1000 per megawatt-hour. Graphic: ERCOT By Jason Ma 18 August 2023 (I
The world has just gotten its first real taste of a planet that is 1.5 degrees Celsius — or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than preindustrial times. According to data from the Copernicus Climate Chan
Advertisement Watch 4 August 2023 BBC climate reporter & data team Getty Images The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implic
Linda J You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this a
Grandfailure In Chinese mythology, the dragon king commands oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain. He controls dragons and sea creatures. He makes the weather. He would be a good god to pray to right now. H
Ever since some of the earliest projections of climate change were made back in the 1970s, they have been remarkably accurate at predicting the rate at which global temperatures would rise. For decade
Dzmitry You might’ve seen that India recently banned exports for non-basmati rice this week in an effort to control inflation. It’s a big deal because they produce 40 percent of the world’s rice. This
Almost half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with chemicals known as "forever chemicals," according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Video above: What are harmful '
Oil and gas companies in West Texas released hundreds of tons of toxic gases into the air last week as a record-breaking heatwave drove pressure inside pipelines and compressors to dangerously high le
The ocean waters surrounding the United Kingdom and much of Europe are baking in an unprecedented marine heat wave that scientists say is being intensified by human-caused climate change. Scientists a
Advertisement Watch 18 June 2023 BBC News, Johannesburg BBC The peace of a normally tranquil suburban road near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, is being shattered by the sound of drilling. These are
Watch 19 June 2023 Getty Images Large parts of India have been experiencing intense heat waves Officials in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are investigating dozens of deaths that some have
Richard J. Lazarus is the Howard and Katherine Aibel professor of law at Harvard Law School. Justice Antonin Scalia died more than seven years ago, but the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. Envir
Firefighters hose down a burning house during the Tick Fire in Agua Dulce near Santa Clarita, Calif., in October 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images State Farm has stopped accepting homeowner insu
Published 17 May comments Share page About sharing Related Topics COP27 Image source, Science Photo Library Image caption, This is how El Niño brought heat to the surface of the Pacific in 2015 By Mat
Water levels at Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, remain critically low because of a climate-change driven megadrought and overuse of the Colorado River's water. Claire Harbage/NPR H
Published 19 May Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Media caption, Watch: Orange skies loom over Canada after wildfire By Brandon Drenon BBC News The province of Alberta, Canada, h
Published 25 April comments Share page About sharing Related Topics COP28 Image source, Getty Images By Matt McGrath and Mark Poynting BBC Climate and Science team A recent, rapid heating of the world
Published 18 April Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate change Image source, Getty Images Image caption, India is one of the countries most exposed and vulnerable to heat By Soutik Biswas I
When Sean Youra was 26 years old and working as an engineer, he started watching documentaries about climate change. Youra, who was struggling with depression and the loss of a family member, was horr
Our children will never experience a childhood as cool as ours. And our childhood wasn’t that cool. That’s one of the stark realities underlined by the latest report from the United Nations Intergover
Snow, high winds and intense rain hit parts of the state Friday. Los Angeles was under a flash flood warning early Saturday, and blizzards were expected in nearby mountains. Heavy snowfall near Pine M
Published 17 February Share page About sharing Related Topics East Palestine train derailment Media caption, Washing fruit with bottled water: How one family is dealing with the aftermath By Bernd Deb
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Eleven days after a train derailed, spilling toxic chemicals and causing a massive fire here, officials told residents Tuesday to use bottled water until testing could confirm w
Fossil fuel industry groups say the technology isn’t ideal for the state’s climate. Mainers aren’t buying it. By February 7, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST VAN BUREN, Maine — The video starts with a Maine radi
Published 7 February Share page About sharing Media caption, A powerful arctic blast grips North America By Sam Cabral & Nadine Yousif BBC News, Washington and Toronto Forecasters say the coldest wind
Published 26 December 2022 Share page About sharing Media caption, A winter storm causes widespread disruption across North America At least 38 deaths have now been linked to a severe Arctic freeze th
Published 19 November 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, James Gallagher By James Gallagher Inside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4 Mention deadly cold and I think of polar explorers with icicle
A 12-year-old boy in the far north of Russia has died in an outbreak of anthrax that experts believe was triggered when unusually warm weather caused the release of the bacteria. The boy was one of 72
See more from our live coverage: Weather Updates Overnight Storm in New York City Causes Flash Flooding, but No Tornado There were no reports of tornado sightings, despite a warning issued for parts o
Pearl River flooding is exacerbating Jackson’s drinking water crisis, bringing warnings of a system-wide outage, causing some businesses and schools to close Monday and prompting some leaders to call
A view of the water level at Hoover Dam, on the Lake Mead side, in 1997 . . . Chlaus Loetscher/Alamy When Bob Seawright moved to San Diego 27 years ago, the only thought he gave to water was about the
Be ‘Less Squeamish’ About Drinking Recycled Wastewater, British Official Says As droughts become more frequent, drinking water that has been reprocessed from sewage treatment is the future, the head o
Nintendo and Valve have issued warnings to customers regarding overheating hardware as brutal heat waves continue to bake the world. Advanced electronics such as smartphones and gaming devices don’t d
4 hours ago - Energy & Environment La Niña heads for rare "triple dip," dampening global temperatures Andrew Freedman , author of Axios Generate Map of sea surface temperature departures from average
Published 3 June 2022 Share page About sharing Related Topics Climate Image caption, A view of Lake Mead - in wetter times, the water came all the way up to the rocks By Regan Morris and Sophie Long B
The world has just 10 weeks' worth of wheat stockpiled after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine disrupted supplies from the "breadbasket of Europe". The UN has been warned that global wheat inventor
The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above
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