Seth Borenstein

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A family walks through Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, on July 31, 2022. Rising seas in Timbulsloko have led people to raise the floors in their homes. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP/Dita Alangkara

This year's climate report warns world on 'thin ice'

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report says the world has a chance but only if we quite oil, gas and coal

News | March 20th 2023

People walk through floodwaters after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, on Sept 19, 2022. File photo by The Associated Press

UN science report to give world a stark climate warning

A major new United Nations report being released on Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold.

News | March 20th 2023

Demonstrators pretend to resuscitate the Earth while advocating for the 1.5 C warming goal to survive at the COP27 UN climate summit on Nov. 16, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. AP Photo/Peter Dejong

World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10 to 12 years. That’s what new AI modelling sees

The study in Monday’s journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reignites a debate on whether it's still possible to limit global warming to 1.5 C, as called for in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to minimize the most damaging effects of climate change.

News, US News | January 30th 2023

The roof of a local business is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Deadly Alabama tornado a harbinger of what’s to come

Early signals, which could change, “indicate the overall pattern remains favourable for an above average tornadic year,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, who studies tornado patterns.

News, US News | January 13th 2023

In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. (NASA via AP, File)

Ozone layer slowly healing and should mend by 2066

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

News | January 10th 2023

Cars drive through a flooded section of Harrison Road in Salinas, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Wild weather driven by unsettled Pacific, nature and warming

In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it’s natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change.

News | January 5th 2023

Wacky weather driven by juiced-up Pacific, nature and warming

News, US News | January 4th 2023

Simon Stiell, U.N. climate chief, speaks during a closing plenary session at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

UN climate boss says climate talks didn't progress much, but could have ended up worse

Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he'll settle for a lack of new emissions-cutting action coming out of the now-concluded climate talks in Egypt.

News | November 22nd 2022

Samela Satere Mawe, center, Indigenous Leadership from the Brazilian Amazon, waits for the arrival of Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, on Nov. 17, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Lines in the sand need redrawing for countries to reach climate deal

As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.

News, Politics | November 17th 2022

Attendees walk at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit at sunset on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

US, China climate envoys to 'meet later' for discussions at UN summit

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry indicated on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, he'll be in talks with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks underway in Egypt, in the latest sign of improving relations between the world's top two polluters after a meeting between the two nations' leaders Monday.

News, Politics | November 15th 2022