The Oregon lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers.

Climate change fueled abnormally high temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico and worsened Hurricane Helene’s winds and rain causing ‘massive damage,’ scientists found.

When the Paris agreement on climate change was gavelled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of things: a political victory for climate activists and delegates from the poo

In cooler times, a similarly rare storm over the Southeast would have delivered less rain and weaker winds, a team of scientists concluded in an analysis.

Scientists have noted that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, about 7% per degree of warming. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy and a professor at Texas Tech University, noted that 89% of this heat is absorbed by the ocean. This leads to rising sea levels, deadly marine heatwaves, and stronger hurricanes.