Originally Published: 12 DEC 23 10:39 ET Updated: 12 DEC 23 15:51 ET By Allison Chinchar, CNN Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting rapidly, but a new report showed an astonishing phenomenon
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JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — This Rudolph won’t be leading his pals Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid through the Christmas Eve sky. But maybe he’ll lead them back out to sea someday. For now the seven Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles are among 13 given holiday-themed names as they are treated at Loggerhead Marinelife
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By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over deadlines for lowering their carbon dioxide emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than they emit. The Group of Negative Emitters
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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will resume this week to prepare the surfing venue in Tahiti after an uproar over damage to a coral reef put efforts on hold. The venue at Teahupo’o is famed on the surfing circuit for its big waves. But there
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Tennesseans are displaced or facing prolonged power outages after a series of powerful tornadoes and storms tore through the state over the weekend, shredding hundreds of homes and killing at least six people, including a mother and her toddler. Destruction caused by storms
Continue Reading By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Indigenous women at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai are coming together to share some of their innovative ideas on how communities on the front lines of climate change can contend with it. Those include things like cultivating eucalyptus plants in
Continue Reading By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Civil defense authorities in Brazil say a closed rock salt mine belonging to petrochemical giant Braskem has partially collapsed in the coastal city of Maceio, the capital of northeastern Alagoas state. Video distributed by the city’s civil defense authority shows a sudden
Continue Reading Associated Press At least nine people have been killed in Brazil’s Amazonian state of Para when a discharge of high-voltage electricity sparked a fire in an encampment of landless workers. The cause of the discharge was faulty installation of internet wiring, according to a statement from the rural landless workers movement in Para. Three of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The University of Texas El Paso has been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Department of Energy to research two potential climate change solutions: the storage of carbon dioxide and geothermal energy capture. This grant it part of a partnership between UTEP, Florida State University, the University of Utah,
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(CNN) — Masita rustles through the long grass, trying not to stumble as she points to another mountain in the distance. “That all there used to be my land,” she said. “All gone.” The mountain on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was once covered in thousands of pepper trees planted by her family, but all
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By SIBI ARASU The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that’s already here. Discussions for what’s known as the Global Goal
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of Mexico coast facing a drought. Counties up and down Florida’s west side are under new
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer The Paris 2024 organizing committee president says he still wants the surfing competition at next year’s Olympics to take place in Tahiti despite the controversy surrounding the construction of the judging tower at the site, where coral has been damaged. Tony Estanguet tells local media Polynesie La Premiere that
Continue ReadingWFTS, RICHARD SALZMAN, CNN By Casey Albritton Click here for updates on this story PINELLAS COUNTY, Florida (WFTS) — Christmas tree suppliers in the Tampa Bay Area are struggling with their tree supply this holiday. In previous years, there have been issues with inflation and worker shortages, but this year, the cause is the weather.
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By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish. A health company called The Blue Formula sells a powder containing collagen taken from the fish online to countries including the U.S. and China. The powder is designed
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By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News Dec. 6, 2023 “Judge overrules Texas, strikes down air pollution permit for Gulf Coast oil terminal” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal
Continue Reading By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change. An analysis by World Weather Attribution found that the magnitude of the rainfall had nearly doubled due to global warming. The researchers found the
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials will decide whether to auction off a valuable and pristine piece of state land located within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park. The Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners has set a vote on the idea Thursday. State Lands Director Jenifer Scoggin recommends auction
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON, JOSHUA A. BICKEL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as the United Nations climate summit heads into its final week. Every sentence, every
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities rescued people from raging rivers and roads submerged by high waters in the Pacific Northwest and continued to investigate the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in Oregon creeks this week as an atmospheric river brought heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures
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By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — This year’s climate talks should “mark the beginning of the end” of fossil fuels the European Commissioner for Climate Action said on Wednesday as the United Nations summit wrapped up its first week. Wopke Hoekstra told a news conference on the last day of
Continue Reading By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world is in danger of hitting the point of no return for five of Earth’s natural systems because of human-caused climate change, a team of 200 scientists said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations’ climate summit. The report
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham is seeking $500 million to establish a new “first-of-its-kind” strategic water supply to increase drought resilience and advance clean energy production in the state. “In arid states like ours, every drop counts. A warming climate throws that fact into sharper relief every day,” said Gov.
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine. Proponents
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European climate agency calculates that for the sixth month in a row, Earth set a new monthly record for heat, and also added the hottest autumn to the litany of record-breaking heat this year. And with only one month left for the
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light
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By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say at least 47 people are dead and 85 others injured following heavy flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania. The government has deployed the military to help rescue hundreds of people trapped by the flooding which has been described as the worst in years in
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world. The British Antarctic Survey said Monday that it was a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it drifts out of Antarctic waters. The RRS Sir
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