Models from Georgia Tech show that indoors can be even hotter than outdoors, something people in poorly-insulated homes around the world are well acquainted with.
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Human-caused climate change and a newly formed El Nino are combining to shatter heat records worldwide, scientists say.
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An El Nino is a natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that shifts global weather patterns, and climate change is making them stronger.
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After the arrival formalities, Biden and Charles participated in a climate-focused roundtable with officials from the financial and philanthropic sectors. John Kerry, the U.S. envoy on climate, also attended.
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The planetary average hit 63 degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing the 62.9-degree mark set Tuesday and equaled Wednesday.
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“Heat sets the pace of our climate in so many ways … it’s never just the heat,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
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Sea rise is pushing the island’s groundwater closer to the surface, allowing the cesspool effluent to mix with the water table and flow into the ocean.
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Given other data, it’s likely the hottest day in “several hundred years that we’ve experienced,” NOAA chief scientist Sarah Kapnick said.
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Meteorologists say that thanks to climate change, the chance of beating the previous joint record has at least doubled since the 1940s.
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday announced that nearly $16 million in federal funding has been committed to the prevention of the imminent extinction of Hawaiian forest birds.
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- By Esme M. Infante
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June 18, 2023
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Ocean users are cautioned to keep far from three uncrewed Saildrone Explorer research vessels that have been deployed around the Hawaiian Islands to help look for signs of climate change.
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- By Seth Borenstein / AP Science Writer
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June 5, 2023
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The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced that the carbon dioxide level measured in May in Hawaii averaged 424 parts per million.
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By absorbing 30% of carbon dioxide emissions since the Industrial Revolution, the ocean has acted as a giant carbon sink and been a crucial buffer in protecting people from even worse effects of early climate change.
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Since last year, an activist group called Last Generation has staged numerous attention-grabbing events in Italy.
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Hawaiian Electric has submitted its final draft of its overarching plan charting how it will transition to clean energy.
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After more than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped epic rain and snowfall on California, a reservoir that stores water upstream is expected to receive three times its capacity in the coming months.
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An international consortium including chemicals giant INEOS and gas and oil producer Wintershall Dea said Project Greensand in Denmark’s North Sea will be the world’s first cross-border carbon storage project.
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Climate change is expected to make turbulence worse in the coming decades, experts say, though improvements in weather forecasting will help.
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