Latest Greenhouse effect News

Amazon's advocates fear Trump's return means little US help to protect rainforest

Jan. 28, 2025 12:11 PM EST

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River. Pink dolphins and fish died. Crops dried up. The town lost its easy access to markets. ...

Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms

Jan. 27, 2025 11:10 AM EST

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. Currently, cold temperatures kill more people...

Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for public lands boss, questions reliability of renewable power

Jan. 16, 2025 15:20 PM EST

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday the U.S. can leverage development of fossil fuels and other energy sources to promote world peace and voiced concerns about the reliability of renewable power sources promoted under the Biden...