Seth Borenstein
LATEST ARTICLES BY Seth Borenstein
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Environment
Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
October 2, 2024More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount of water...
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The new abnormal: Climate change making wildfires and smoke worse
July 3, 2023“The climate changed so much that we lost control of it.”
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Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says
June 1, 2023It’s not a terminal diagnosis. The planet can recover if it changes.
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Earth’s warriors, young and old, keep battling and hoping
April 21, 2023The younger generations are “the future leaders and there are others coming after us. We must protect the Earth for them.”
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Carbon dioxide emissions rising worldwide, but drop in China
November 14, 2022Bad news for the fight against climate change - but with an odd twist.
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Doctors say ‘fossil fuel addiction’ kills, starves millions
October 26, 2022“We know the treatment we need. We just need the willpower from all of us and our leaders to make it happen.”
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Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches
August 30, 2022“That’s how climate change works. Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.”
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New theory: Earth’s longer days kick-started oxygen development
August 3, 2021The study authors and outside scientists said this is just one possible but plausible explanation for Earth’s oxygen increase.
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