A man with a cooling pad on his forehead takes a nap on a bench on a sweltering day in Beijing, July 24, 2023. At about summer's halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say. Killer heat. Deadly floods. Smoke from wildfires that chokes. And there’s no relief in sight. Expect a hotter than normal August and September, American and European forecast centers predict. “We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world,” said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. “The heat waves that...…A man with a cooling pad on his forehead takes a nap on a bench on a sweltering day in Beijing, July 24, 2023. At about summer's halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say. Killer heat. Deadly floods. Smoke from wildfires that chokes. And there’s no relief in sight. Expect a hotter than normal August and September, American and European forecast centers predict. “We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world,” said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. “The heat waves that...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-oxford-ca-state-wire-f487b63befb2f4c3181404bcc87be1c1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-oxford-ca-state-wire-f487b63befb2f4c3181404bcc87be1c1Click to copyRelated topicsActs of kindness may not be that random after all. Science says being kind pays off.Research shows that acts of kindness make us feel better and healthier. Kindness is also key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind. Kindness “is as bred in our bones as our anger or our...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-oxford-ca-state-wire-f487b63befb2f4c3181404bcc87be1c1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-oxford-ca-state-wire-f487b63befb2f4c3181404bcc87be1c1Click to copyRelated topicsActs of kindness may not be that random after all. Science says being kind pays off.Research shows that acts of kindness make us feel better and healthier. Kindness is also key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind. Kindness “is as bred in our bones as our anger or our...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/climate-un-carbon-cut-pledges-not-enough-baf7d41df6a3e909afecaa54025cdf7aClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-un-carbon-cut-pledges-not-enough-baf7d41df6a3e909afecaa54025cdf7aClick to copyRelated topicsThe newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what’s needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report finds. So the U.N.’s climate chief is telling nations to go back and try harder.Most countries — especially top carbon polluters China, United States and...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/climate-un-carbon-cut-pledges-not-enough-baf7d41df6a3e909afecaa54025cdf7aClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-un-carbon-cut-pledges-not-enough-baf7d41df6a3e909afecaa54025cdf7aClick to copyRelated topicsThe newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what’s needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report finds. So the U.N.’s climate chief is telling nations to go back and try harder.Most countries — especially top carbon polluters China, United States and...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-biden-cabinet-cabinets-genetics-2597b3c1e5c1c0c484086a752174f9ffClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-biden-cabinet-cabinets-genetics-2597b3c1e5c1c0c484086a752174f9ffClick to copyRelated topicsPresident-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a pioneer in mapping the human genome — the so-called “book of life” — to be his chief science adviser and is elevating the top science job to a Cabinet position.Biden nominated Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who was the...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-biden-cabinet-cabinets-genetics-2597b3c1e5c1c0c484086a752174f9ffClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-biden-cabinet-cabinets-genetics-2597b3c1e5c1c0c484086a752174f9ffClick to copyRelated topicsPresident-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a pioneer in mapping the human genome — the so-called “book of life” — to be his chief science adviser and is elevating the top science job to a Cabinet position.Biden nominated Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who was the...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/2020-global-temperature-record-b4f5556cbdb2b0b4de6c86d52642db4eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/2020-global-temperature-record-b4f5556cbdb2b0b4de6c86d52642db4eClick to copyRelated topicsEarth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.While and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the , said last year came in a close second or third. The differences in rankings mostly turned on how...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/2020-global-temperature-record-b4f5556cbdb2b0b4de6c86d52642db4eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/2020-global-temperature-record-b4f5556cbdb2b0b4de6c86d52642db4eClick to copyRelated topicsEarth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.While and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the , said last year came in a close second or third. The differences in rankings mostly turned on how...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bfClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bfClick to copyRelated topicsThe amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.But it’s not game over because, while that amount of warming may be inevitable, it can be delayed for centuries if the world quickly stops emitting extra greenhouse gases from the...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bfClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bfClick to copyRelated topicsThe amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.But it’s not game over because, while that amount of warming may be inevitable, it can be delayed for centuries if the world quickly stops emitting extra greenhouse gases from the...WW…

Want to discuss? Please read our first.AdvertisementClose XAAA locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its this year by seven per cent, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.The Global Carbon Project, an authoritative group of dozens of international scientists who track emissions, calculated that the world will have put 37 billion U.S. tons (34 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide in the air in 2020. That’s down from 40.1 billion US tons (36.4 billion metric tons) in 2019, according a study published Thursday in the journal Earth System Science Data.Scientists say this drop...…Want to discuss? Please read our first.AdvertisementClose XAAA locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its this year by seven per cent, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.The Global Carbon Project, an authoritative group of dozens of international scientists who track emissions, calculated that the world will have put 37 billion U.S. tons (34 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide in the air in 2020. That’s down from 40.1 billion US tons (36.4 billion metric tons) in 2019, according a study published Thursday in the journal Earth System Science Data.Scientists say this drop...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/un-calls-end-war-nature-go-carbon-free-d144cda34053abbd0758e22d9ff8f7c6Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/un-calls-end-war-nature-go-carbon-free-d144cda34053abbd0758e22d9ff8f7c6Click to copyRelated topicsAs an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming carbon pollution. With new reports highlighting 2020’s record-breaking weather and growing fossil fuels...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/un-calls-end-war-nature-go-carbon-free-d144cda34053abbd0758e22d9ff8f7c6Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/un-calls-end-war-nature-go-carbon-free-d144cda34053abbd0758e22d9ff8f7c6Click to copyRelated topicsAs an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming carbon pollution. With new reports highlighting 2020’s record-breaking weather and growing fossil fuels...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-paris-e6db5893841465bab91f18d8fde8b800Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-paris-e6db5893841465bab91f18d8fde8b800Click to copyRelated topicsWhat happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.The day after the presidential election, the United States formally leaves the 2015 to fight climate change. A year ago, President Donald Trump’s administration notified the United...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-paris-e6db5893841465bab91f18d8fde8b800Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-paris-e6db5893841465bab91f18d8fde8b800Click to copyRelated topicsWhat happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.The day after the presidential election, the United States formally leaves the 2015 to fight climate change. A year ago, President Donald Trump’s administration notified the United...WW…