  
By Delger Erdenesanaa and Noah Weiland
The New York Times
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing.
Smoke from increasingly frequent and...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
New controls on ...
Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand
By Judith Kohler
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People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
By Somini Sengupta
The New York Times
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...
By Edith M. Lederer
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS>> The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious. Among them: End extreme poverty and hunger. Ensure every child on Earth gets a quality secondary education. Achieve gender equality. Make significant inroads in tackling climate change....
$1 billion or more events
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.
T...
By Alan Henceroth and Geoff Buchheister
Guest Commentary
Hitting the road before dawn, quietly waiting in the cold to nab one of the first chairs up the mountain, all in the hope of capturing that exhilarating sensation that only skiers and snowboarders know — when the stars and snowpack a...
CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT
By Suzie Romig
Pilot & Today
When State Climatologist Russ Schumacher presented a preview of the Climate Change in Colorado assessment update to a conference audience in late August in Steamboat Springs, he said the statewide annual temperature has warmed by ...
U.N. WEATHER AGENCY
By Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
GENEVA>> Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organiz...
In a research paper, the scientists say capturing carbon dioxide directly from the oceans could have advantages over direct air capture.
By Ananya Chetia
September 2, 2023
As human activity and climate change increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean, harming coral reefs ...
By Mark Harden
Columnist for The Denver Post
The news out of Hawaii has been deeply tragic. The Maui disaster is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, and the island’s death toll continues to rise, with hundreds still missing.
And the cluster of fires that broke out on Aug. ...
By Christopher Rugaber
The Associated Press
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.>> Rising trade barriers. Aging populations. A broad transition from carbon-spewing fossil fuels to renewable energy.
The prevalence of such trends across the world could intensify global inflation pressures in the coming years a...
It’s part of a national movement to have universities’ divest all holdings in fossil fuels. The university says its efforts to minimize climate change have been “innovative” and “consistent.”
By Danish Bajwa
August 29, 2023
As the fall semester approaches, student groups at C...
City wants cleaner air, better mobility for cyclists, pedestrians
By John Aguilar
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The venerable American ritual of palming a burger while gripping the steering wheel, as grease and ketchup drip onto shirt and lap, soon could face resistance as thick as honey mustard sauce ...
n the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact.
Videos and images analyzed...
By Gabe Stern
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev.>> Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs.
But last summer,...

By Elena Becatoros
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece>> The nightmare repeats itself every year: A towering wall of flames devours forests, farmland and homes, forcing animals and people to flee for their lives.
With their hot, dry summers, Greece and its southern European neighbors exp...
By David Sharp and Jim Morris
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, British Columbia>> Firefighters battling wildfires in Canada on Saturday sought to stop flames that swept through the West Kelowna suburbs in British Columbia, forced the evacuation of a university campus and fouled the air with t...
By Olga R. Rodriguez and Haven Daley
The Associated Press
PARADISE, Calif.>> Residents driven from their homes by one of the deadliest wildfires in recent history had one request before they would rebuild in the small mountain town of Paradise: warning sirens to bolster town emergency system...
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories>> Thousands of residents fled the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ahead of an approaching wildfire Thursday, some driving hundreds of miles to safety and others waiting in long lines for emergency flights, ...
