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FILE – Bruce Hickey, 70, walks along the waterfront, now littered with debris including shrimp boats, in the mobile home park where he and his wife, Kathy, have a winter home on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday, June 13, 2024, pronounced dead the El Nino that warms parts of the central Pacific. Forecasters expect La Nina to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Bye bye, El Nino. Cooler hurricane-helping La Nina to replace the phenomenon that adds heat to Earth

June 13, 2024 at 9:12 a.m.

The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. It’s cool flip side, La Nina, is likely to...

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 5:18 p.m.

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...

FILE - People gather at "El Morro" to watch the sunset during the San Sebastián Street festivities in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan. 21, 2024. For the eighth straight month, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency’s analysis of January 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo, File)

Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month

February 8, 2024 at 6:07 p.m.

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 people were...

The CTA Holiday Train arrives at the Illinois Medical District CTA Blue Line "L" stop as the sun begins to set on Dec. 16, 2021, in Chicago.

A white Christmas will ‘probably not’ happen this year as Chicago nears record for latest date of first measurable snowfall

December 17, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

Unless Friday night's precipitation leads to lasting snow, Chicago this year might break its record for the latest first measurable snow. That record date is Dec. 20, 2012, the latest...

Scientists reveal first image ever made of black hole, showing bending halo of orange light

August 22, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting its hot, shadowy edges where light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. Assembling data...

Some of the Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues, released by members of the House Intelligence committee. According to a study published on Jan. 9, 2019, in Science Advances, people over 65 and conservatives shared far more false information in 2016 on Facebook than others.

Elderly, conservatives far more likely to have shared fake news on Facebook in 2016: study

August 22, 2019 at 10:15 a.m.

Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media site than younger...

People line up to enter a hurricane shelter at Trask Middle School in North Carolina on September 11, 2018.

Global warming didn’t cause Florence, scientists say, but it’s making hurricanes more intense

August 22, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.

A warmer world makes for nastier hurricanes. They are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster. Their storm surges are more destructive because climate change has already made the seas...

A patient suffering from dengue fever lies in a hospital bed on Oct. 19, 2017, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Cases of dengue fever — a mosquito-borne and -spread disease — have doubled every decade since 1990. Dr. Howard Frumkin, a former environmental health director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said climate change is part of the reason.

Doctors: Global warming is taking a toll on people’s health

August 22, 2019 at 1:28 a.m.

Global warming is hurting people's health a bit more than previously thought, but there's hope that the Earth — and populations — can heal if the planet kicks its coal...

This undated photo provided by Russ Lewis shows researcher John Chapman inspecting a Japanese vessel which washed ashore on Long Beach, Wash. On Thursday, Sept. 27, 2017, researchers reported nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea creatures hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States.

Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris, landing in U.S.

August 22, 2019 at 1:05 a.m.

Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researchers...

Harvey’s perfect storm recipe: Warm water, calm air up high and slow speed

August 22, 2019 at 12:37 a.m.

Hurricane Harvey is following the perfect recipe to be a monster storm, meteorologists say. Warm water. Check. Calm air at 40,000 feet high. Check. Slow speed to dump maximum rain....

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