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Global Warming

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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for 1st time as temperatures rise

  • Oct 22, 2025

How Houston's "Hot-tober" could impact cooler months ahead

  • Oct 21, 2025

How planet's climate has changed since first Earth Day in 1970

  • Apr 22, 2025

2024 is officially the hottest year on record

  • Jan 10, 2025

SoCal Wildfires: Here's the role climate change may be playing

  • Jan 10, 2025

Climate Ready: How to host a less wasteful Thanksgiving

  • Nov 20, 2024

Could slime in your dishwasher unlock a solution to global warming?

  • Oct 24, 2024

What's an anaerobic digester? This one's helping feed and heat Chicago

  • Aug 14, 2024

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'Scientists were dead right': Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'

  • Jun 18
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US could see a century's worth of sea rise in just 30 years

  • Feb 16, 2022
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Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks on environment for Earth Day 2021

  • Apr 19, 2021
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Trump and Biden sparred over Texas' energy industry

  • Oct 23, 2020
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Antarctica's ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before

  • Jun 14, 2018
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2017 among warmest years in recent history

  • Jan 18, 2018
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NASA predicts 2016 will be the hottest year on record

  • Feb 3, 2017

Latest Stories

Geothermal energy could soon heat, cool up to 180 homes in Chicago

Geothermal energy could soon be the way a historically Black neighborhood in Chicago heats and cools its homes.

  • Aug 1, 2024

Cy-Fair ISD trustees gain power in book banning process

Parents and staffers packed a board meeting Monday night, demanding answers over changing library policies and a move to omit science textbook chapters.

  • Jun 18, 2024

Scientists say Earth is in 4th coral bleaching event amid rising ocean temperatures

More than 54% of the world's coral reef areas have experienced bleaching in the past year, experts say.

  • Apr 17, 2024
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Why cold air outbreaks are still happening amid global warming

Research from climate experts around the world has shown that more dramatic extremes in both hot and cold temperatures are a symptom of climate change.

  • Jan 18, 2024
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2023 was the year of record heat temperatures

June was the warmest on record. July was the hottest month ever recorded. August was the warmest on record. September was the warmest on record. October was the warmest-ever recorded.

  • Dec 27, 2023