Pres. Obama shakes hands with UN official Ban Ki-moon on Saturday and hands key paperwork to him.
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The leaders of the U.S. and China committed their nations to the fight against global warming on Saturday when they handed arcane but momentous documents to the United Nation’s top official...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to media mogul Rupert Murdoch as they walk out of Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen. Rupert Murdoch and his conservative media outlets like the WSJ are among the worst influences on perceptions of climate change. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

New studies show that climate polarization is on the rise in the US; WSJ climate coverage is full of denial...

Satellite image of Typhoon Nari via NASA.

Scientists at the biggest U.S. oil company understood as early as anyone that fossil fuel emissions were heating up the earth’s atmosphere...

In this photo provided by Stanford University, participants in the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment sampled plots of the grassland ecosystem for 17 years. For 17 years with experiments on more than one million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test, growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to simulate a not-so-distant future. The results contradict a common talking point by people who downplay the threat of global warming and reject the science. (Nona Chiariello/Stanford University via AP)

In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test — growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to mimic a not-so-distant, hotter future...

The world's waters have absorbed more than 93 percent of the enhanced heating from climate change since the 1970 (AFP Photo/Joe Raedle)

Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday...

On 7 July 2015, satellite images showed the Pacific Ocean with two typhoons, one tropical storm, one formation alert and one large area of increased convection. Photograph: JMA MTSAT-2/NOAA

Giant storms that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines have grown 50% stronger in the past 40 years due to warming seas...

The scale of warming in the ocean is ‘truly staggering’, the report warns. Photograph: Ralph Lee Hopkins/Alamy

IUCN report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behavior of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease...

Loy Yang brown coalmine in the Latrobe Valley. Climate scientist David Karoly and economist Clive Hamilton have called for brown-coal-fired power plants to be closed. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Climate scientist and economist publish minority report calling for full emissions trading scheme and closure of brown-coal-fired power plants...

A satellite image of Hurricane Hermine, before it was a post-tropical cyclone, approaching Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday. NOAA via Getty Images

Which is what makes its future harder to predict...

The world's nations concluded a pact in Paris to halt the march of climate change, which threatens stronger storms, longer droughts and land-gobbling sea-level rise (AFP Photo/Tokachi Mainichi)

Paris (AFP) - China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers Monday, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming...

The mountain whitefish is among those dying in large numbers in Montana because of a parasite thriving in slower, warmer streams. Credit: Wikimedia

A parasite that is killing tens of thousands of fish is blamed on low stream flow and warming waters, both impacts of climate change in the West...

Fungal infections take about a million lives worldwide every year. (Photo: Ed Uthman, Flickr CC BY 2.0)

In this week's round-up, Peter Dykstra speaks with host Steve Curwood about new research into drug-resistant fungus, and the threat to one of America’s favorite fruits. Also, he presents a roundup of changes warmer ocean waters are bringing to sea creatures off the Atlantic coast, and remembers the failure of a big solar leader and a win for blue whales...

"It’s because mounting evidence indicates that, like tobacco, the fossil fuel industry may have engaged in a deliberate, protracted fraud to mislead the public, to protect their profits, to the peril of us all...."

The sun sets beyond visitors to Liberty Memorial as the temperature hovers around 100F in Kansas City, Missouri, last month. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Records of temperature that go back far further than 1800s suggest warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium...

A resident inspecting the seawall near his house in Holmes Beach, Florida as Hermine prepares for landfall on September 1, 2016. (Photo: Brian Blanco/Getty Images)

New York City is probably in the clear, but the storm could prove catastrophic for some parts of coastal New Jersey...

Highway 80, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., in June. High tides are forcing the road to close several times a year. Credit Stephen B. Morton for The New York Times

Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical...

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It's the latest in an unlikely partnership between the two countries on climate change...

We’ve seen a lot of bad news about our planet in the past several years. Here are the seven most worrisome climate change headlines...

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 02 (IPS) - A congress billed as the world's largest ever to focus on the environment has opened to warnings that our planet is at a "tipping point" but also with expressions of hope that governments, civil society and big business are learning to work together...