global warming

Graveyard of Staghorn coral, Yonge reef, Northern Great Barrier Reef, October 2016.

Study: 'Urgent' Action Against Global Warming Needed To Save Coral Reefs

6:22pm March 16, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

After another major coral bleaching event, a new study has concluded that securing a future for coral reefs "ultimately requires urgent and rapid action to reduce global warming."

Scott Pruitt's comments on carbon dioxide come just over two weeks after he took the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency with the authority to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases as pollutants.

EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Questions Basic Facts About Climate Change

12:38pm March 09, 2017

by Geoff Brumfiel

In an interview with CNBC, President Trump's EPA administrator said he did not believe carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming.

Tom Coleman, who manages more than 8,000 acres of pistachio trees across California, is worried that warmer temperatures will affect his crops.

If These Trees Don't Get Time To Chill, Farmers Will Be Out On A Limb

2:38pm January 25, 2017

by Ezra David Romero

Tree crops like pistachios, peaches and almonds need a certain amount of cold weather every year. But scientists say that California's climate may become too warm for them to grow there.

Politics & Government

The America Donald Trump Is Inheriting, By The Numbers

3:24pm January 19, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Trump will be at the head of a nation with a relatively healthy economy and a health care system he has promised to overhaul, and he will be facing a slew of international tensions.

The previous year was the hottest year on record, according to climate scientists.

2016 Was The Hottest Year Yet, Scientists Declare

11:03am January 18, 2017

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Global temperatures soared above the 20th century average last year, as the climate continues to change. It's the hottest it has been since scientists started tracking global temperatures in 1880.

A natural gas drilling rig's lights shimmer in the evening light near Silt, Colo. Methane is the main component of natural gas, and studies show some methane escapes from leaky oil and gas operations.

Methane's On The Rise, But Regulations To Stop Gas Leaks Still Debated

5:16pm January 02, 2017

by Christopher Joyce

Scientists concede that oil and gas production is only partly to blame for the 3 percent surge in the greenhouse gas in the last decade. Obama tightened rules on the industry. Will Trump repeal them?

Queue Listen Now

Portland's Gulf of Maine Research Institute has designed a trawl net that aims to target species that can still be profitable while avoiding cod.

Fishermen Team Up With Scientists To Make A More Selective Net

4:32pm December 13, 2016

by Fred Bever

A trawling experiment in the Gulf of Maine aims to scoop up abundant and profitable flatfish, while bypassing the once plentiful but now depleted cod population. So far, the results are promising.

Tanker trucks drive past an ExxonMobil oil refinery on March 8, 2005, in Joliet, Ill.

Environment

ExxonMobil Vs. The World

10:30am November 30, 2016

by Marcelo Gleiser

Oil companies once led in climate science; if they put a fraction of their profits into the search for alternative renewable fuels, they could ensure our collective well-being, says Marcelo Gleiser.