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Seth Borenstein

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ARTICLES BY SETH BORENSTEIN

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during 'Summit of the Future' on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, September 23, 2024. (AFP)

What to know from the UN: China's initiative, climate change, hints of war, etc

7 min read . 24 Sep 2024

In this file photo, extremely light traffic moves along the 110 Harbor Freeway toward downtown Los Angeles in the mid-afternoon. Traffic would normally be bumper-to-bumper during this time of day on a Friday. New calculations released on Thursday, 10 December 2020, show the world's carbon dioxide emissions plunged 7% in 2020 because of the pandemic lockdowns. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020

2 min read . 11 Dec 2020

Hurricane (REUTERS)

2 tropical storms a potential double threat to US Gulf Coast

3 min read . 22 Aug 2020

Stephen Hawking was the inheritor of Albert Einstein’s mantle of the genius-as-celebrity. Photo: Reuters

Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’

4 min read . 14 Mar 2018

Since 1900, Earth has warmed by 1.8 degrees (1 degree Celsius) and seas have risen by 8 inches. Heat waves, downpours and wildfires have become frequent. Photo: AP

US report says humans cause climate change, contradicting Donald Trump team

3 min read . 04 Nov 2017

Scientists say warmer air and water mean wetter and possibly more intense hurricanes in the future. Photo: Reut

Global warming makes storms, like hurricane Harvey, wetter: scientists

3 min read . 29 Aug 2017

A file photo of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at the Center of European Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva. Photo: Bloomberg

Scientists at Large Hadron Collider discover new subatomic particle

1 min read . 06 Jul 2017

Experts and the researchers don’t accuse car and truck makers of cheating, but say testing is not simulating real-world conditions. Photo: HT

Pollution from diesel vehicles is 50% higher than lab tests show, says study

2 min read . 15 May 2017

Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite. Photo: AP/National Snow & Ice Data Center

Arctic sea ice shrinks to second lowest level on record

2 min read . 16 Sep 2016

Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 600 trillion pounds of ice a year, and that affects the way the Earth wobbles. Photo: AFP

Global warming is now changing Earth’s polar motion: Nasa

1 min read . 09 Apr 2016

In 20th century the world’s seas rose 5.5 inches (14 centimeters). Since 1993 the rate has soared to a foot per century (30 centimeters). Photo: Reuters

Seas are rising way faster than any time in past 2,800 years

3 min read . 23 Feb 2016

Scientists say the hotter it gets, the more likely the Aedes aegypti mosquito can spread disease. Photo: AP

Higher temperatures make Zika mosquito spread disease more

3 min read . 04 Feb 2016

Using preliminary data through October, the team of emission trackers project that worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide this year will be down by 200 million metric tonnes. Photo: Reuters

Study sees possible dip in world carbon dioxide emissions

4 min read . 08 Dec 2015

Biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals. Photo: Reuters

Global warming, evolution clipping bumblebees’ tongues

2 min read . 25 Sep 2015

Earth’s first big predatory monster was a weird water bug, newly found fossils show. Photo: AP

Weird sea scorpion was Earth’s first big predator

1 min read . 01 Sep 2015

A red-footed booby on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. As many as nine out of ten of the world’s seabirds are likely to have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Photo: AP

What’s in 90% of seabirds’ guts? Plastic

1 min read . 01 Sep 2015

Humans fish and hunt in a way contrary to nature and evolution in that we kill larger mature animals, while most non-human predators kill young and feeble. Photo: AP

Hunting for bigger fish, game isn’t sustainable: study

2 min read . 21 Aug 2015

People search for family members trapped inside collapsed houses a day after an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal on 26 April 2015. Photo: Reuters

Experts gathered in Nepal a week ago to ready for earthquake

3 min read . 26 Apr 2015

However, it won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records because these were satellite measured, not from thermometers. Photo: British Antarctic Survey/ Bloomberg

Antarctica set record of -94.7º C

1 min read . 10 Dec 2013

A file photo of Orion Exploration Flight Test 1crew module at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Senate Science and Space subcommittee chairman Sen. Bill Nelson, says President Obama and NASA are planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon. Photo: AP (AP)

NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer

1 min read . 06 Apr 2013