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Sheep graze on a grass land near a cement plant on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Oct. 17, 2015. New global data released in May 2022, shows that emissions of heat-trapping gases coming from making cement have doubled in the last 20 years. It's all being driven by China, which is responsible for more than half of the globe's cement carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,06/22/22-9:56AM , 527 Reads
Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows.
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An adult female polar bear, left, and two 1-year-old cubs walk over snow-covered freshwater glacier ice in Southeast Greenland in March 2015. With limited sea ice, these Southeast Greenland polar bears use freshwater icebergs spawned from the shrinking Greenland ice sheet as makeshift hunting grounds, according to a study in journal Science released Thursday, June 16. (Kristin Laidre via AP)

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Shaky oasis for some polar bears found, but not for species
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,06/16/22-1:01PM , 481 Reads
With the polar bear species in a fight for survival because of disappearing Arctic sea ice, a new distinct group of Greenland bears seem to have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow a small remote population to “hang on.”
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National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham poses for a portrait in front of WP-3D Orion "hurricane hunter" aircraft during a hurricane awareness tour at Washington National Airport, Arlington, Va., May 3, 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday, June 7, named Graham the overall boss of the weather service. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

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Hurricane chief to take over as weather service director
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,06/07/22-9:00AM , 649 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — A meteorologist who oversaw warnings and forecasts during one of the busiest spurts of Atlantic hurricane activity on record will take over as the new director of the National Weather Service, as scientists expect extreme and dangerous storms and heatwaves to worsen with climate change
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A youngster, with an eye drawn on her hand to show she is watching and 1.5 for countries to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, takes part in a Fridays for Future climate protest inside a plenary corridor at the SEC (Scottish Event Campus) venue for the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 10, 2021. The idea of tinkering with the air to cool Earth's ever-warming climate seems to be gaining momentum. Two new high-powered panels have started to look at the ethics and governing rules surrounding the controversial technologies of geoengineering. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

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New panels want to talk ethics, rules of climate tinkering
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,06/06/22-3:18PM , 505 Reads
Tinkering with the planet's air to cool Earth’s ever-warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high-powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
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