According to a new report on climate change, the proportion of Earth’s population that’s vulnerable to heat-related death and disease continues to grow.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Wildfires more likely with hot/dry weather combo, thanks to climate change
Climate change has doubled the odds that a region will suffer the brutal combination of both hot and dry weather at the same time, a new study said.
Global carbon emissions rose in 2017, dimming hopes to rein in climate change
After three years of decline, the amount of carbon dioxide humans emitted increased in 2017, the United Nations announced.
U.S. impacts of climate change are intensifying, federal report says
The Trump Administration released a major report on climate change Friday, one that emphasizes the dire threat that human-caused global warming poses to the U.S. and its citizens.
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The federal government will release a major climate change report – Volume II of the National Climate Assessment – on Black Friday.
A side dish from Siberia? Many are going to freeze on Thanksgiving
Temperatures in the morningwill start off near zero degrees in northern New England and only about 30 degrees in southeastern Virginia, AccuWeather said.
Doomed ‘pinwheel’ star system to explode in spectacular gamma-ray blast, study says
Astronomers have found a unique “pinwheel” star system in our own galaxy, one that will eventually diein a massive explosion the likes of which have never seen before.
How will the bitter cold and howling winds affect the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?
Despite a forecast of brutal, record-breaking cold on Thursday in New York City, the show –Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade – will go on.
Prehistoric ‘Swiss Army knife’ discovered in China
Forget clubs. Real ‘cave men’ actually used complex tools as far back as 170,000 years ago, a new study said.
In search for life on Mars, NASA’s 2020 Rover mission will land in an ancient lakebed
Humans won’t be on it, but now we know where NASA’snext mission to Mars will be landing, the agency announced Monday.