Seth Borenstein

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The last five years are hottest of the past 140 years, new data shows.

Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record

Seth Borenstein · October 20, 2014 6:46 pm

Feds: Don’t expect winter to be polar vortex redux

Seth Borenstein · October 16, 2014 5:11 pm

Energy and Environment

Study: Natural gas surge won’t slow global warming

Seth Borenstein · October 15, 2014 5:26 pm

Having made mark on Earth, humans may name era too

Seth Borenstein · October 14, 2014 7:18 am

Energy and Environment

Satellite sees hot spot of methane in US Southwest

Seth Borenstein · October 9, 2014 10:45 pm

Study: Asian cave drawings as old as European ones

Study: Asian cave drawings as old as European ones

Seth Borenstein · October 8, 2014 5:00 pm

These handout images provided by NOAA shows a comparison of two weather forecast models for the New Jersey area. At left shows the forecast that doesn't distinguish local hazardous weather. At right shows the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model that clearly depicts where local thunderstorms, yellow and red coloring are likely. The National Weather Service can now give better, faster and more pinpointed severe weather forecasts because of new computer simulations. The weather service on Tuesday started using a new high resolution computer model that officials say will dramatically improve forecasts of storms up to 15 hours ahead of time. They say the more rapidly updating simulations will save lives with better warning for tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzards. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Weather service storm forecasts get more localized

Seth Borenstein · September 30, 2014 7:25 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2013 file photo, an Indian rickshaw puller sits a top the passenger seat to protect himself during heavy downpour in Allahabad, India. Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them. Researchers found that climate change increased the odds of nine extremes: Heat waves in Australia, Europe, China, Japan and Korea, intense rain in parts of the United States and India, and severe droughts in California and New Zealand. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

Energy and Environment

Studies fault warming in much of 2013 wild weather

Seth Borenstein · September 29, 2014 4:31 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013, file photo, a worker levels the coal on a freight train in Taiyuan in northern China's Shanxi province. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

Energy and Environment

China, US, India push world carbon emissions up

Seth Borenstein · September 22, 2014 8:46 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013, file photo, a worker levels the coal on a freight train in Taiyuan in northern China's Shanxi province. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

China, US, India push world carbon emissions up

Seth Borenstein · September 21, 2014 5:16 pm

NOAA: Yet more global heat records fall in August

NOAA: Yet more global heat records fall in August

Seth Borenstein · September 18, 2014 6:43 pm

Amazon founder’s firm to build new rocket engines

Amazon founder’s firm to build new rocket engines

Seth Borenstein · September 17, 2014 9:25 pm