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  • FILE – A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, July 16, 2023. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)Health

    How extreme heat can turn deadly: It confuses your brain, shuts down your organs, and overworks your heart

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Jorge Moreno, a worker, drinks flavored water to cope with the heat wave during his workday at a construction site in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 17, 2024. Human-caused climate change intensified and made far more likely this month’s killer heat with triple digit temperatures, a new flash study found Thursday, June 20. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)Environment

    Climate change caused by fossil fuels made killer heat wave in U.S. and Mexico 2.5 degrees hotter and 35 times more likely, scientists say

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Simon StiellEnvironment

    Humanity has just 2 years ‘to save the world,’ UN climate chief says

    By Seth Borenstein, Jamey Keaten, and others
  • T.J. RaulsEnvironment

    ‘Cicada-geddon’ will hit America for first time since 1803, expert says: ‘Trillions of these amazing living organisms [coming] out of the Earth’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, attends 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)Environment

    As John Kerry steps down from climate role, he sees a ‘vast change in the marketplace’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Residents of a riverside community carry food and containers of drinking water from an aid distribution due to the ongoing drought in Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 24, 2023. Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, the European climate agency said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo /Edmar Barros, File)Environment

    After the hottest year ever, January is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree Paris Accords threshold

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Power plantsEnvironment

    Nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide were pumped into the air in 2023, twice the amount from 40 years ago, Global Carbon Project tells COP

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • John KerryEnvironment

    John Kerry says U.S. stands with 56 countries committed to phasing out coal power plants entirely

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • A person carries sand bags through a flooded streetEnvironment

    The U.S. is warming 60% faster than the world is, National Climate Assessment says: ‘We are not prepared for what’s coming’

    By Seth Borenstein, Tammy Webber, and others
  • AntarcticaEnvironment

    Study gets real on climate change: Antarctica faces the ‘unavoidable’ melting of enough ice to raise sea levels nearly 6 feet

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rescue workers with Tidewater Disaster Response wade through a tidal surge on a highway while looking for people in need of help after the Steinhatchee River flooded on, Aug 30, 2023, in Steinhatchee, Fla., following the arrival of Hurricane Idalia. With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)Environment

    Atlantic hurricanes are twice as likely to go from wimpy to catastrophic in 24 hours than in decades past

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Pumpjack/pump jack operating at an onshore oil well in Texas, United States/USA. (Photo by: Marica van der Meer/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Environment

    ‘We’re in a fossil trap’: U.S. oil production hits an all-time high despite the huge push for green energy

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A man cools off in a shower at Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2023. After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday, Oct. 5. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)Environment

    September was so hot climate scientists are calling it ‘mind-blowing’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
  • Bill GatesEnvironment

    Bill Gates sees ‘a lot of climate exaggeration’ out there: ‘The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine’

    By Seth Borenstein, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • March to End Fossil FuelsEnvironment

    Gen Z New Yorkers are furious with the UN: ‘If you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands, end fossil fuels’

    By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press