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Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold

“This is a warning light going off on the Earth’s dashboard that immediate attention is needed,'' said University of Georgia meteorology professor...

10.01.2025 10

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

How cold blasts are paradoxically caused by global warming, as freezing polar vortex sweeps U.S.

Polar vortexes on a warming planet might sound counterintuitive, but there's a scientific reason.

07.01.2025 3

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

Climate change has made hurricane winds 18 mph stronger since 2019, study says

For most of the storms — 40 of them — the extra oomph from warmer oceans made the storms jump an entire hurricane category, according to the...

20.11.2024 3

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

COP29 reveals world’s most polluting states and provinces are all in China—except for one U.S. exception

Seven states or provinces spew more than 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, all of them in China—except Texas.

15.11.2024 20

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

Carbon emissions increase again in 2024 as Earth races toward 1.5 degree warming threshold

If the world continues burning fossil fuels at today's level, it has six years before passing 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the...

13.11.2024 7

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are both likely to cost more than $50 billion, joining ranks of priciest disasters

Making that even more painful is that most of the damage — 95% or more in Helene's case — was not insured, putting victims in a deeper financial...

17.10.2024 8

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

More than 40 trillion gallons of rain flooded the South over the past week

“It was not just a perfect storm, but it was a combination of multiple storms that that led to the enormous amount of rain.”

01.10.2024 7

Fortune

Seth Borenstein

Summer 2024 officially sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record

Human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather.

06.09.2024 2

Fortune

Seth Borenstein