U.N. says summer 2023 hottest on record: "Climate breakdown has begun"
"Climate breakdown has begun," U.N. chief says, adding: "The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting."
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"Climate breakdown has begun," U.N. chief says, adding: "The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting."
The first visualizations showed pollution over western Pennsylvania.
Temperature records have been breaking all over, as our Earth registers some of the hottest periods ever measured. Experts say it's the "new normal."
A new study by the Center for Climate Integrity is breaking down how much the climate crisis could cost Pennsylvanians.
More than just staff shortages could delay your flight for taking off on time.
With temperatures soaring, how could that impact your travel plans? KDKA's Chris DeRose is digging into that question.
"Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
Responses to heavy storms and high temperatures could hit Pennsylvanians in the wallet.
With smoky skies, higher temperatures, and floods, what's going on with these extreme weather events?
John Shumway continues his conversation with the KDKA First Alert Weather Team about all this crazy weather.
Soaring temperatures, droughts, heavy rains, tornadoes, and smoky skies have all of us asking - "What's up with the weather?" So that's the question John Shumway posed to the KDKA First Alert Weather Team.
As temperatures warm, harmful algal blooms will likely blossom even more, posing a threat to wildlife, human health and could even affect drinking water.
Years of keeping fire out of America's forests led to a buildup of dead trees and brush — fuel for today's larger, hotter, more lethal wildfires.
Preliminary measurements had the mercury topping an average of 62.6 degrees worldwide for the first time since records have been kept, an arm of NOAA says.
The first six weeks of Canada's 2023 wildfire season put it on track to be its most destructive in history.
Youth plaintiffs say warming temperatures are harming their health and threatening their futures as a closely-watched climate trial kicks in Montana.
Science tells us there's a connection between hurricanes and climate change. But how strong is it? And what can we expect for the future?
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether he first needed approval from a Legislature that opposed the plan.
"Nobody is going to be untouched by these changes that are happening," an expert from the U.K. Met Office warned.
Climate change initiatives by universities sometimes mask their financial ties to Big Oil. Students are demanding change.
Warm ocean waters are one of El Niño's biggest fuels – and data shows that sea surface temperatures have hit temperatures well above those seen during 2016's "Godzilla" event.
The new fiscal year budget was approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democratic-led legislature on Tuesday night, and contains a provision that bans gas stoves from new residential buildings.
The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change has started meeting, a step the Democrat promised to take when he criticized his predecessor's strategy to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon-pricing policy.
Thirty percent of Americans live in a community near a coastline. While those people don't have the power to unilaterally solve the underlying problem of climate change, some communities are now grappling with how to adapt.
Research shows most youth are "extremely worried" about climate change. Kids and young adults who struggle with climate anxiety can perceive they have no future or that humanity is doomed.
