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FILE - A woman is silhouetted against the setting sun as triple-digit heat indexes continue in the Midwest, Aug. 20, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating

June 4, 2024 at 11:53 p.m.

The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated.The group of 57 scientists from...

ARCHIVO - Un policía disfruta el rociado de agua fresca bajo el calor intenso en un centro de distribución de máquinas de voto electrónico y otro material electoral antes de la quinta fase de votación en la elecciones nacionales de seis semanas de duración en Lucknow, India, el domingo 19 de mayo de 2024. (AP Foto/Rajesh Kumar Singh, archivo)

Subsecretario de ONU: Mejor preparacion reduce muertes por desastres pese a empeoramiento climatico

June 1, 2024 at 11:55 p.m.

Aunque el cambio climático hace que desastres como ciclones, inundaciones y sequías sean más intensos, más frecuentes y afecten a más lugares, menos personas mueren a causa de esas catástrofes...

FILE - A polling official enjoys a cooling spray of water under intense heat at a distribution venue for Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other election material on the eve of the fifth phase of polling in the six-week-long national election in Lucknow, India, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A top United Nations official says even though climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally. Thats because of better warning, planning and resilience. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climate

June 1, 2024 at 5:02 p.m.

As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better...

FILE - Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 15, 2023. Nearly all the experts think 2024 will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summer

May 23, 2024 at 4:58 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.There's...

FILE - Bleached coral is visible at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 16, 2023. Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of ‘crazy’ ocean heat

May 16, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that...

ARCHIVO - Una mujer mira la puesta del sol en un día cálido, el 20 de agosto de 2023 en Kansas City, Misuri (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

Anillos de los arboles muestran que el verano de 2023 fue el mas calido desde el ano 1

May 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

El abrasador verano de 2023 has ido el más cálido en el hemisferio norte en más de 2.000 años, según los hallazgos de un nuevo estudio.Cuando las temperaturas se elevaron...

FILE - A woman watches the sun set on a hot day, Aug. 20, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. A new study on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1

May 14, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.

The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found.When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said...

FILE - Working inside a nearly 18-foot-deep snow pit at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, from left, Shaun Joseph, Claudia Norman, Helena Middleton take measurements of snow temperatures ahead of a weather storm on March 9, 2023, in Soda Springs, Calif. A new study finds the snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above. The study authors coined the term “snow deluge” for one-in-20-year heavy snowfalls. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)

Study says California’s 2023 snowy rescue from megadrought was a freak event. Don’t get used to it

April 29, 2024 at 7:18 p.m.

DENVER — Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found.Don’t get used to it because...

ARCHIVO - Un automóvil queda varado en una inundación causada por las fuertes lluvias en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el jueves 18 de abril de 2024. (AP Foto/Christopher Pike, archivo)

Estudio: Evidencia apunta a que cambio climatico empeoro diluvio en Dubai

April 25, 2024 at 5:47 p.m.

La evidencia circunstancial apunta a que el cambio climático empeoró el diluvio mortal que acaba de inundar Dubái y otras partes del Golfo Pérsico, pero los científicos no hallaron las...

FILE - People walk through floodwater caused by heavy rain while waiting for transportation on Sheikh Zayed Road highway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 18, 2024. A new report says climate change played a role in the floods. (AP Photo/Christopher Pike, File)

Study says it’s likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

April 25, 2024 at 7:21 p.m.

Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of...

The website for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention displays on a computer screen in Glenside, Pa., Monday, April 22, 2024, a new heat risk system developed with the National Weather Service. They unveiled a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

When red-hot isn’t enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level

April 22, 2024 at 8:20 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer.The National Weather Service and...

COP29 President-designate Mukhtar Babayev takes part in an interview with The Associated Press at the Azerbaijan embassy in Washington on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming president

April 19, 2024 at 5:34 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The man who will run United Nations climate talks this November views the negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb global warming.The conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, must...

Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwaters covering a road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 17, 2024. With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Here’s why experts don’t think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai’s downpour

April 18, 2024 at 12:55 a.m.

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said.Cloud seeding,...

ARCHIVO - Dos personas miran el atardecer en un parque, en un día inusualmente cálido, el 25 de febrero de 2024, en Kansas City, Misuri. (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

El impacto economico del cambio climatico sera de 38 billones de dolares al ano para 2049: estudio

April 17, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

El cambio climático reducirá el ingreso global un 19% en los próximos 25 años en comparación con un mundo ficticio sin calentamiento, y las áreas más pobres y aquellas menos...

New study calculates climate change’s economic bite will hit about $38 trillion a year by 2049

April 17, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that's not warming, with the poorest areas and those least...

Former Ireland President Mary Robinson speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Oxford, England, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo)

European court decision shows that a safe climate is a human right, former UN rights chief says

April 12, 2024 at 2:17 p.m.

OXFORD, England — Having a safe climate is becoming more of a human right globally with this week's European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something...

FILE - United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Stiell says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left ‘to save the world’

April 10, 2024 at 1:02 p.m.

OXFORD, England — Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act...

ARCHIVO - Una antorcha arde en un pozo petrolero el 26 de agosto de 2021, cerca de Watford City, Dakota del Norte. (AP Foto/Matthew Brown, Archivo)

Niveles de dioxido de carbono y metano volvieron a alcanzar niveles record el ano pasado, dice NOAA

April 5, 2024 at 7:38 p.m.

Los niveles de los importantes gases que atrapan el calor en la atmósfera alcanzaron niveles históricos del año pasado, aumentando a un ritmo casi récord, de acuerdo con la Oficina...

FILE - A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric istration. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

April 5, 2024 at 6:05 p.m.

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric istration.Carbon dioxide,...

La Luna vista detrás de la torre de Home Place, el sábado 22 de junio de 2013, en Prattville, Alabama. (AP Foto/Dave Martin, Archivo)

La NASA quiere idear un nuevo reloj para la Luna, donde los segundos transcurren mas rapido

April 2, 2024 at 11:41 p.m.

WASHINGTON — La NASA quiere encontrar la manera de medir el tiempo fuera de este mundo y establecer un reloj específico para la Luna.No se trata de un huso horario como los...

FILE - The moon rises behind the Home Place clock tower in Prattville, Ala., Saturday, June 22, 2013. NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock. The White House on Tuesday, April 2, 2204, told NASA to work with other agencies abroad to come up with a new moon-centric time reference system. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

NASA wants to come up with a new clock for the moon, where seconds tick away faster

April 2, 2024 at 9:59 p.m.

WASHINGTON — NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.It's not quite a time zone like those on...

A periodical cicada nymph wiggles in the grass in Macon, Ga., on Thursday, March 28, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cicadas are nature’s weirdos. They pee stronger than us and an STD can turn them into zombies

April 1, 2024 at 2:35 p.m.

The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren't just plentiful, they're downright weird.These insects are the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom with...

A periodical cicada nymph is held in Macon, Ga., Wednesday, March 27, 2024. This periodical cicada nymph was found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence in centuries

April 1, 2024 at 2:36 p.m.

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades...

ARCHIVO - Turistas visitan la antigua colina de la Acrópolis durante una la de calor en Atenas, Grecia, el 21 de julio de 2023 (AP Foto/Petros Giannakouris, Archivo)

Desde 1979, el cambio climatico ha provocado olas de calor mas largas, calidas y daninas: estudio

March 29, 2024 at 7:46 p.m.

El cambio climático hace que las grandes olas de calor sean más prolongadas en todo el mundo y afecten a más personas durante más tiempo con mayores temperaturas en áreas...

FILE - Tourists visit the ancient Acropolis hill during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, on July 21, 2023. Climate change is making heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people

March 30, 2024 at 12:21 a.m.

Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new...

FILE - This image provided by NOAA/NASA In This May 31, 2018 satellite image shows the Earth's western hemisphere at 12:00 p.m. EDT on May 20, 2018, made by the new GOES-17 satellite, using the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster. (NOAA/NASA via AP, File)

A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks

March 27, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.For the first time in...

Una pareja se toma fotos con los cerezos en flor de fondo en Fairmount Park, Filadelfia, el 29 de marzo de 2023. (Foto AP/Matt Rourke, Archivo)

Expertos preven una primavera mas agradable de lo normal para EEUU

March 21, 2024 at 8:17 p.m.

Estados Unidos puede esperar unas agradables vacaciones de primavera después de extremos demasiado lluviosos o demasiado secos, predijeron el jueves los meteorólogos.Después de algunas temporadas difíciles de sequía, inundaciones e...

FILE - Shoppers buy food in a supermarket in London, on Aug. 17, 2022. Food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change, a new study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank found. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation

March 21, 2024 at 7:41 p.m.

Food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change, a new study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank found.Looking at monthly price tags...

FILE - A couple takes a selfie with cherry blossoms at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, March 29, 2023. The United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too dry extremes, federal meteorologists predicted Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

The US may catch a spring break on weather. Forecasters see minimal flooding and drought for spring

March 21, 2024 at 5:31 p.m.

The United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too dry extremes, federal meteorologists predicted Thursday.After some rough seasons of drought, flooding and fires, the...

John Kerry, enviado especial presidencial de Estados Unidos para el clima, posa para una fotografía durante una entrevista con The Associated Press en su oficina en el Departamento de Estado, el martes 6 de febrero de 2024, en Washington. (AP Foto/Jacquelyn Martin)

John Kerry reflexiona sobre su labor como el principal negociador climatico de EEUU

March 20, 2024 at 11:51 p.m.

WASHINGTON — El tiempo se estaba agotando y John Kerry lo sabía.Las conversaciones internacionales sobre el clima a mediados de diciembre estaban estancadas sin un acuerdo para eliminar gradualmente el uso del...

La secretaria general de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial, Celeste Saulo, en Ginebra, Suiza, el 19 de marzo de 2024. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Agencia climatica de la ONU emite “alerta roja” sobre calentamiento global

March 19, 2024 at 2:21 p.m.

GINEBRA — La agencia climática de la ONU emitió una “alerta roja” sobre el calentamiento global, citando aumentos sin precedentes el año pasado de gases de efecto invernadero, temperaturas en tierra y...

Celeste Saulo, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General, speaks about the state of Global Climate 2023, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that the world's efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

March 19, 2024 at 10:11 p.m.

GENEVA — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea...

This Aug. 23, 1965 photo provided by NASA shows astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, near the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico during training. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday, March 18, 2024. He was 93. (NASA via AP)

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

March 18, 2024 at 5:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air...

Debris scatters the ground near damaged homes following a severe storm Friday, March 15, 2024, in Lakeview, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Meteorologists say this year’s warm winter provided key ingredient for Midwest killer tornadoes

March 15, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.

This winter's record warmth provided the key ingredient for a Midwest outbreak of deadly tornadoes and damaging gorilla hail that hit parts of the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday, tornado experts...

Quema de gas en un pozo de petróleo cerca de Watford City, Dakota del Norte, el 26 de agosto de 2021. (AP Foto/Matthew Brown, File)

Estudio: Fuga de gas metano es el triple de lo que piensa el gobierno de EEUU

March 13, 2024 at 5:25 p.m.

Los pozos de petróleo y gas natural, los ductos y compresores en Estados Unidos emiten tres veces más metano —un poderoso gas que atrapa el calor— de lo que piensa...

FILE - A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, a new comprehensive study calculates. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

March 13, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly...

FILE - A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago. Federal meteorologists on Friday, March 8, have made it official: It's the warmest U.S. winter on record by far. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record

March 8, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter.In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, the thermometer...

Un hombre compra una bebida refrescante de un vendedor ambulante en un día soleado, el 29 de febrero de 2024, en Mahawewa, un poblado ubicado al norte de Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Foto/Eranga Jayawardena, Archivo)

El planeta registra nuevos records de calor para febrero, invierno y temperatura oceanica

March 7, 2024 at 4:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Por noveno mes consecutivo, el planeta impuso nuevos récords de calor. Febrero, el invierno en su totalidad y los océanos rompieron las marcas de altas temperaturas, según la agencia climática...

FILE - A man buys a cool drink from a roadside vendor on a sunny day in Mahawewa, a village north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Feb. 29, 2024. Earth has exceeded global heat records in February, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Last month was hottest February ever recorded. It’s the ninth-straight broken record

March 7, 2024 at 7:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the...

John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the State Department, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Washington. Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

John Kerry reflects on time as top US climate negotiator and ‘major breakthrough’ in climate talks

March 4, 2024 at 12:40 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Time was running out and U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry knew it.International climate talks in mid-December were stuck with no agreement to phase out oil, gas and coal, fossil fuels...

Scientists create new idea on how to hack a warming planet: drying the upper atmosphere

February 28, 2024 at 7:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier.Water vapor — water...

ARCHIVO - Hielo flota en el estrecho de Bransfield cerca de la base militar chilena Bernardo O'Higgins el 23 de noviembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Jorge Saenz, Archivo)

Calor en el Atlantico y poco hielo en el Antartico anuncian un mundo mas calido: estudio

February 27, 2024 at 6:55 p.m.

Las altas temperaturas en el Atlántico Norte y los mínimos récord en la cantidad de hielo en el océano Antártico observados el año pasado son mucho más graves de lo...

FILE - A bird flies past as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean, Jan. 3, 2024, in Surfside, Fla. A new study suggests that scientists tracking climate change may be underestimating the impacts of rising temperatures. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Study says 2023’s crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world

February 27, 2024 at 4:36 p.m.

Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current...

This image provided by researcher J. Larsson in February 2024, made from a combination of Hubble Space Telescope images, shows the aftermath of supernova 1987A. Scientists have confirmed that the exploding star morphed into a neutron star, one of the oddest objects in the universe. (J. Larsson via AP)

Space telescope spies neutron star in the debris of famous supernova

February 22, 2024 at 7:02 p.m.

Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago: It morphed into a neutron star, one of...

En esta imagen, distribuida por la Oficina Nacional de istración Oceánica y Atmosférica se muestra coral cuerno de alce muerto, el 9 de febrero de 2024, en el arrecife de Carysfort, al noreste de Key Largo, Florida. (Ben Edmonds/NOAA vía AP)

El agua de mar caliente mata a la mayor parte del coral cultivado en los cayos de Florida

February 17, 2024 at 7:39 a.m.

La temperatura récord del agua del mar mató a más de tres cuartas partes del coral cultivado por el hombre que los científicos habían colocado en los cayos de Florida...

This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric istration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. (Ben Edmonds/NOAA via AP)

Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort

February 16, 2024 at 10:06 p.m.

Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species...

FILE - A male polar bear eats a piece of whale meat as it walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Aug. 23, 2010. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer, a new study suggests. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition

February 13, 2024 at 4:11 p.m.

For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their...

FILE - People swim in the Atlantic Ocean in Biarritz, southwestern , Oct. 27, 2021. An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before, according to a new story. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says

February 9, 2024 at 9:39 p.m.

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a...

Dos personas observan el atardecer en "El Morro" durante los festejos de la Calle San Sebastián, el 21 de enero de 2024, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Foto/Alejandro Granadillo, Archivo)

La Tierra alcanza temperaturas record por octavo mes consecutivo

February 8, 2024 at 4:39 a.m.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, EE.UU. — Durante ocho meses consecutivos hasta enero, la Tierra impuso un nuevo récord de altas temperaturas, según la agencia climática europea. Esto fue evidente en el norte de...

FILE - A street vendor displays sheets for sale while people sunbathe on the beach in Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 26, 2024. For the eighth straight month, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency’s analysis of January 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s ‘lost winter’

February 8, 2024 at 3:22 a.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency. That was obvious in the northern United States, where about 1,000...

ARCHIVO - La argentina Celeste Saulo posa luego de que fue elegida como el secretario general de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial en Ginebra, Suiza, el 1 de junio de 2023, durante un congreso de la agencia. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, Archivo)

Nueva directora de agencia meteorologica de ONU dice que ritmo de cambio climatico esta acelerando

February 7, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

BALTIMORE — La nueva directora de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial, Celeste Saulo, señaló que considera que el ritmo del cambio climático causado por el hombre está acelerando y ese calentamiento ha causado...

FILE - Celeste Saulo, of Argentina, poses after she was elected as Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 1, 2023, during the U.N. climate and weather agency's congress in Geneva. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

New UN weather agency chief says rate of global warming is speeding up

February 7, 2024 at 5:35 p.m.

BALTIMORE — The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change is accelerating and that warming has triggered more Arctic cold...

FILE - Residents wade down a street through receding floodwaters, two days after Hurricane Patricia, in the village of Rebalse, Jalisco State, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2015. A handful of powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has some experts proposing a new category of hurricanes: Category 6, which would be for storms with wind speeds of 192 miles per hour or more. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

February 5, 2024 at 9:46 p.m.

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes:...

This undated image provided by Amos Winter shows a sponge from the Caribbean. This sponge, a simple animal that filters water, and a handful of other centuries-old sponges are causing some scientists to think human-caused climate change began sooner and has heated the world more than they thought. Many sponge species live long, and as they grow they record the conditions of the environment around them in their skeletons. (Courtesy of Amos Winter via AP)

Ocean sponges suggest Earth has warmed longer, more than thought; some scientists dubious

February 5, 2024 at 6:09 p.m.

A handful of centuries-old sponges from deep in the Caribbean are causing some scientists to think human-caused climate change began sooner and has heated the world more than they thought.They...

ARCHIVO - El jefe de asuntos climáticos de la ONU, Simon Stiell, habla en una sesión plenaria de la cumbre COP28 en Dubai, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, 13 de diciembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Kamran Jebreili)

ONU: Combate al cambio climatico requiere menos exenciones y mucho mas dinero

February 2, 2024 at 3:01 p.m.

Para impedir el sobrecalentamiento de la Tierra, los países del mundo deben reducir las exenciones en sus acuerdos climáticos e invertir mucho más dinero —billones de dólares por año— en...

FILE - United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

UN climate chief’s blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change

February 2, 2024 at 1:29 p.m.

To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year...

FILE - John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States, left, listens to Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy for Climate Change for China, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 24, 2022. Kerry and Xie are stepping down from their roles, marking a generational shift in the world of international climate negotiations. Activists and scientists hope that the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases continue finding ways to collaborate to prevent the planet from heating up to catastrophic levels. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action

January 26, 2024 at 6:14 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The United Nations climate summit in Dubai was wrapping up last month when John Kerry went to a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua only to find a surprise...

ARCHIVO - Un espectador se refresca durante una jornada de entrenamiento previa al Abierto de Australia en Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, 12 de enero de 2024. (AP Foto/Andy Wong, Archivo)

EEUU se congela mientras la mayor parte del mundo se calienta? Una vez mas, es el cambio climatico

January 17, 2024 at 4:18 a.m.

Gran parte de Estados Unidos está temblando a causa de un frío brutal mientras la mayor parte del resto del mundo siente un clima inusualmente cálido. Por extraña que parezca,...

FILE - A worker pauses while removing snow from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Jan. 14, 2024. While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather. Scientists Tuesday, Jan. 16, say that fits with what climate change is doing to Earth. (AP Photo/ Jeffrey T. Barnes, File)

US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it’s climate change

January 16, 2024 at 11:13 p.m.

Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually warm weather. However strange it sounds, that contradiction fits...

FILE - A man cools off in a shower at Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2023. The latest calculations from several science agencies Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, all say that global average temperatures for 2023 shattered existing heat records. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening

January 12, 2024 at 5:52 p.m.

The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that what's behind those numbers could be even worse.The...

ARCHIVO - El río Colorado avanza a través de montañas cubiertas por una ligera capa de nieve el 12 de abril de 2023, cerca de Burns, Colorado. (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily vía AP, archivo)

El cambio climatico reduce la nieve acumulada en muchos lugares, dice estudio

January 11, 2024 at 4:17 a.m.

DENVER — Las cuencas fluviales de todo el mundo que solían estar cubiertas de nieve con regularidad están sufriendo una reducción de esa capa y el culpable es el cambio climático, de...

FILE - The Colorado River runs through lightly snow covered mountains April 12, 2023 near Burns, Colo. Once regularly snowbound river basins across the globe, including the upper Colorado, are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a new study found. (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP, File)

Climate change is shrinking snowpack in many places, study shows. And it will get worse

January 10, 2024 at 4:38 p.m.

DENVER — River basins around the world that were once regularly snowbound are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a new study found.“Many of the world’s most...

Evidencia de la sequía en el embalse Sau, al norte de Barcelona, España, el 20 de marzo de 2023. (Foto AP/Emilio Morenatti)

El 2023 fue el ano mas caluroso en la historia del planeta

January 10, 2024 at 12:16 a.m.

La Tierra batió el año pasado récords de temperatura anual, estuvo cerca del límite del calentamiento acordado y mostró nuevas señales de un planeta febril, informó el martes la agencia...

FILE - The cracked earth of the Sau reservoir is visible north of Barcelona, Spain, March 20, 2023. Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, the European climate agency said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says

January 9, 2024 at 9:37 p.m.

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.The European...

Turistas rellenan botellas de plástico con agua de un bebedero público en el Castillo de Sforzesco, el 25 de junio de 2022, en Milán. (AP Foto/Luca Bruno, Archivo)

Cientificos hallan cerca de 250.000 particulas de nanoplasticos en un litro de agua embotellada

January 9, 2024 at 2:30 a.m.

Un litro promedio de agua embotellada contiene cerca de un cuarto de millón de partículas invisibles de minúsculos nanoplásticos, detectados y categorizados por primera vez mediante un microscopio que utiliza...

FILE - Tourists fill plastic bottles with water from a public fountain at the Sforzesco Castle, in Milan, Italy, June 25, 2022. A new study found the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of nanoplastics, microscopic plastic pieces, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water

January 8, 2024 at 9:11 p.m.

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual...

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber gestures at the end of the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Experts at odds over result of UN climate talks in Dubai; ‘Historic,’ ‘pipsqueak’ or something else?

December 14, 2023 at 8:20 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that nearly 200 countries accepted, at times grudgingly.For the first...

El presidente de la COP28, Sultan al-Jaber (centro), aplaude tras la aprobación del balance mundial en la cumbre climática de Naciones Unidas, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el 13 de diciembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Kamran Jebreili)

Delegados en la COP28 acuerdan “transicion para alejarse” de los combustibles fosiles

December 13, 2023 at 10:42 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Los negociadores climáticos de Naciones Unidas indicaron el miércoles al mundo que emprenda la transición para abandonar los combustibles fósiles que...

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, right, celebrates ing the global stocktake with United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell, left, and COP28 CEO Adnan Amin during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

In a first, delegates at UN climate talks agree to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels

December 13, 2023 at 7:08 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Nearly 200 countries agreed Wednesday to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels — the first time they’ve made that crucial pledge in decades of U.N. climate talks...

Activistas protestan contra el uso de combustibles fósiles y en favor de la justicia climática durante la COP28, el 12 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Kamran Jebreili)

COP28 entra en su ultima jornada sin un acuerdo sobre los combustibles fosiles a la vista

December 12, 2023 at 8:00 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — El marcado enfrentamiento entre los países que quieren una eliminación drástica de los combustibles fósiles causantes del calentamiento global y los...

People walk through the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Sharp disagreements over future of planet-warming fossil fuels at UN climate talks in Dubai

December 12, 2023 at 10:38 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A standoff between countries that want a dramatic phase-out of planet-warming fossil fuels and those that don't pushed a critical climate summit officially into overtime on Tuesday....

Activistas muestran carteles que forman la frase "mantengan la línea" cerca del secretario general de Naciones Unidas, António Guterres, mientras habla en durante una conferencia de prensa en la cumbre climática de la ONU COP28 en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el lunes 11 de diciembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong)

Activistas y lideres ONU apremian a los negociadores en las “dificiles” negociaciones climaticas

December 11, 2023 at 12:27 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Visiblemente cansados y frustrados, dirigentes de Naciones Unidas instaron el lunes a los negociadores climáticos a presionar más para poner fin...

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, right, accepts an item from an activist as she heads to a new session of talks at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

As COP28 nears finish, critics say proposal ‘doesn’t even come close’ to what’s needed on climate

December 12, 2023 at 4:26 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Negotiators from around the world haggled deep into the night to try to strike a deal to halt global warming at United Nations climate talks, with Western...

Delegates arrive for a meeting at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Agreeing to agree: Everyone must come to consensus at COP28 climate talks, toughening the process

December 11, 2023 at 10:22 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It’s the killer detail in international climate talks: Consensus.With nearly 200 nations of different sizes, economies, political systems, resources and needs, they all have to find common...

Panfletos que anuncian a Azerbaiyán como sede de la COP29 en el pabellón de Azerbaiyán durante la cumbre climática de Naciones Unidas COP28, el viernes 8 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Rafiq Maqbool)

Tras estancamiento en Dubai, proxima cumbre climatica de ONU sera en Azerbaiyan en 2024

December 11, 2023 at 12:28 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Durante años, el cambio climático ha sido un factor —no el único— en guerras y conflictos. Ahora, por primera vez, es...

A woman pours tea at the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Baku to the future: After stalemate, UN climate talks will be in Azerbaijan in 2024

December 10, 2023 at 3:59 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For years, climate change has been a factor — not the only one — in wars and conflicts. Now for the first time, it's part of a...

El ministro danés para el Clima, Dan Jorgensen, a la izquierda, asiste a una sesión plenaria en la cumbre COP28 el sábado 9 de diciembre de 2023 en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong)

Persisten diferencias sobre combustibles fosiles en la recta final de la COP28

December 10, 2023 at 4:53 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Se ha instado a los negociadores a reducir sus opciones para poder llegar a un acuerdo sobre cómo salvar a la...

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, left, and John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, speak as they attend a meeting at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

At COP28, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and adapting to climate as talks near crunch time

December 10, 2023 at 5:27 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies...

Una mujer se protege del sol con un paraguas, durante la cumbre climática de Naciones Unidas, COP28, el 9 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong)

Observadores: “panico” en OPEP mientras COP28 aborda posible eliminacion de combustibles fosiles

December 9, 2023 at 7:12 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Los negociadores más veteranos de la reunión de las Naciones Unidas sobre el clima afirmaron el sábado que la presión para...

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, center, and COP28 CEO Adnan Amin speak ahead of a stocktaking plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Observers see OPEC ‘panicking’ as COP28 climate talks focus on possible fossil fuel phase-out

December 9, 2023 at 7:13 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Veteran negotiators at the United Nations climate talks Saturday said that the push to wean the world from dirty fossil fuels had gained so much momentum that...

Activistas sostienen una pancarta con la frase "Estamos luchando" durante la cumbre climática de Naciones Unidas, COP28, el 8 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong)

Tras dia de descanso, negociadores de la COP28 vuelven a centrarse en los combustibles fosiles

December 8, 2023 at 8:58 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — La conferencia del clima de Naciones Unidas arrancó el viernes su última semana, en la que se espera que los negociadores...

People walk near country's flags during the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense; ‘It’s go time’ to save planet in peril

December 8, 2023 at 10:51 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 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...

ARCHIVO - Personas se dirigen a la Cumbre Climática de Naciones Unidas COP28 cerca del Domo Al Wasl, el lunes 4 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong, archivo)

Se aceleran negociaciones sobre clima. Cada frase importa en la COP28

December 7, 2023 at 5:44 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — El estado de ánimo está a punto de cambiar, las horas se hacen más largas y el sentido de urgencia, de...

FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration for loss and damage at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28

December 7, 2023 at 2:22 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 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...

Activistas, incluida la ugandesa Vanessa Nakate, a la derecha, protestan contra los combustibles fósiles en la cumbre COP28 de Naciones Unidas, el martes 5 de diciembre de 2023 en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Los carteles dicen "Pongan fin a los combustibles fósiles". (AP Foto/Rafiq Maqbool)

La cumbre climatica ultima su 1ra semana con avances, pero sin despedirse de combustibles fosiles

December 6, 2023 at 9:43 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Los negociadores en una importante conferencia climática de Naciones Unidas se preparaban el miércoles para concluir su primera semana de trabajo...

People walk through the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

December 6, 2023 at 6:28 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more...

Un avión despega del Aeropuerto Internacional Sky Harbor la tarde del 12 de julio de 2023, en Phoenix. (AP Foto/Matt York, Archivo)

Cientificos: Noviembre es el 6to mes consecutivo en imponer record de altas temperaturas

December 6, 2023 at 4:06 a.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Por sexto mes consecutivo, la Tierra impuso un nuevo récord mensual de calor y, además, sumó el otoño más cálido a...

FILE - A jet takes flight from Sky Harbor International Airport as the sun sets over Phoenix, July 12, 2023. Homeless people are among the people most likely to die in the extreme heat in metro Phoenix. The European climate agency calculates that November, for the sixth month in a row, the globe set a new monthly record for heat, adding the hottest autumn to the broken records of record-breaking heat this year. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

November is the sixth straight month to set a heat record, scientists say

December 6, 2023 at 5:58 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 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...

Varias personas participan en una manifestación en favor de una transición justa y equitativa de los combustibles fósiles a las energías renovables, en la COP28, el 5 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Kamran Jebreili)

La pregunta clave en COP28: reducir o eliminar los combustibles fosiles

December 5, 2023 at 6:54 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — Después de varias jornadas en las que rozaron distintos aspectos del calentamiento, los negociadores se abocaron el martes a la dura tarea de afrontar la causa principal...

Activists protest against fossil fuels at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

To phase out or phase down fossil fuels? That is the question at COP28 climate talks

December 5, 2023 at 10:36 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of...

Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation

December 5, 2023 at 12:02 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of...

Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, speaks to The Associated Press at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Gore blasts COP28 climate chief and oil companies’ emissions pledges at UN summit

December 5, 2023 at 4:03 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution, said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who added that the man leading the...

ARCHIVO - Vista de la refinería de petróleo Capuava de Petrobras en Maui, en las afueras de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 6 de noviembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Andre Penner, File)

Petroleras en cumbre climatica prometen reducir metano; segun ambientalistas, es una cortina de humo

December 2, 2023 at 2:21 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Cincuenta empresas petroleras que representan casi la mitad de la producción mundial se han comprometido a reducir las emisiones de metano...

FILE - Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

At COP28 meeting, oil companies pledge to combat methane. Environmentalists call it a “smokescreen”

December 2, 2023 at 5:11 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president...

AES Indiana Petersburg Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Petersburg, Ind., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

US s in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

December 2, 2023 at 10:42 a.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States committed Saturday to the idea of phasing out coal power plants, ing 56 other nations in kicking the coal habit that's a huge factor...

El canciller alemán Olaf Scholz habla durante una sesión de la COP28, el sábado 2 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Rafiq Maqbool)

Paises en desarrollo presionan al mundo rico para que luche mejor contra cambio climatico en COP28

December 2, 2023 at 3:31 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Países que alguna vez fueron colonizados por imperios están contraatacando en relación con el calentamiento global, y tienen la bendición del...

A man looks out at the Al Wasl Dome at Expo City at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Don’t ignore us: Backed by pope, poorer nations use COP28 summit to press rich world on climate

December 2, 2023 at 3:56 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope's blessing.Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday's high-level speeches at...

Operarios trabajan en una zona del recinto que albergará la cumbre del clima de la ONU o COP28, el 30 de noviembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Rafiq Maqbool)

Lideres desfilan por COP28, que tiene el calentamiento global y los combustibles fosiles en la mira

December 1, 2023 at 3:11 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — Las conversaciones internacionales sobre el clima se convirtieron el viernes en un juego de poder: docenas de líderes mundiales, incluyendo el príncipe heredero saudí y el primer...

Italy Premier Giorgia Meloni, left, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, and COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber speak at a group photo at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top world leaders talk of climate crisis at UN summit. They say they must act on fossil fuels, war

December 1, 2023 at 10:14 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dozens of world leaders said they know the planet's dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse. The next step is to turn...

El presidente de COP28, sultán al-Jaber, habla en la sesión inicial de la Cumbre Climática de la ONU COP28, jueves 30 de noviembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong)

COP28: Crecen presiones para eliminar combustibles fosiles

November 30, 2023 at 5:23 p.m.

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos — Crecían las presiones el jueves para la eliminación gradual de los combustibles fósiles al comenzar las frágiles negociaciones climáticas internacionales en Dubái, presididas por el jefe...

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