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A coal-fired power plant operates near wind turbines Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Nov. 2, 2022. Climate negotiators gather in Dubai for marathon United Nations talks that include a first-ever assessment of how well the world is doing in its battle against global warming. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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Climate contradictions key at UN talks. Less future warming projected, yet there's more current pain
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,11/28/23-10:20PM , 59 Reads
The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said.
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This 2020 photo provided by the British Antarctic Survey shows the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica. No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an "unavoidable" melt, a new study found. (David Vaughan/British Antarctic Survey via AP, File)

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Even with carbon emissions cuts, a key part of Antarctica is doomed to slow collapse, study says
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,10/23/23-10:01AM , 128 Reads
No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study found.
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This Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. Dozens of Antarctica’s ice shelves, floating extensions of glaciers, showed significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021, a study published Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, found. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP, File)

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Scientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice shelves. Trillions of tons of ice lost.
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,10/12/23-1:08PM , 103 Reads
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial “gatekeepers’’ between the frozen continent’s massive glaciers and open ocean.
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A woman uses a fan in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, Sept. 7, 2023, in Paris. After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday, Oct. 5. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, File)

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September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing'
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,10/04/23-9:01PM , 116 Reads
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursd
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