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Climate Change – PBS NewsHour
Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.
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Large companies see payoffs in sustainability
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio MEGAN THOMPSON: This summer, when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate accord — a voluntary pact to cut emissions of gases that cause global warming — some opposition came from what is perhaps a surprising place: big business. In…
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Shields and Brooks on Hurricane Harvey unity, climate change politics
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio MILES O’BRIEN: In addition to the grueling work of rescue and recovery on the ground, Hurricane Harvey has stirred up political challenges and marked the first natural disaster on President Trump’s watch. For what’s at stake, we get the analysis of Shields and...
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Did climate change make recent extreme storms worse?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio MILES O’BRIEN: And the Associated Press now confirms that the death toll from Harvey has risen to 12. But as we focus on Texas and Louisiana, nature is also taking a devastating toll elsewhere. Heavy monsoons are paralyzing Mumbai, India, right now. More than…
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Starved by drought, Rome’s water supply may not spring eternal
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: A serious drought has swept southern Europe this summer. Some farmers in Italy and Spain are predicting the worst crop yields in 20 years. Agricultural damage and loss are expected to be in the billions. NewsHour special correspondent Christopher...
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Why some scientists are concerned a government climate change report won’t be released
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a look at a yet-to-be-released climate change report making headlines for what it tells us about the current state of science and politics. The New York Times, which acquired a draft of the document, reports today that among its key findings…
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Interior official turns whistle-blower, claiming retaliation for climate change work
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, what do you do when your job changes, but you don’t agree with the change? For one government scientist, it forced him into the role of a reluctant whistle-blower. Our William Brangham has our conversation. Recently, Joel Clement had been...
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Arctic journey shows the glaring effects of climate change
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Finding and traversing the fabled ice-clogged northwest sea passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Canadian Arctic was a dream of explorers for centuries. But it wasn’t until 1906 that famed...
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Climate change challenges sinking city of Venice
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio CHRISTOPHER LIVESAY: Venice is a world class wonder. A city built on more than 100 small islands, connected by a maze of bridges and canals. The largest is the Grand Canal with its famous Rialto Bridge. Over the centuries, Venice has stood the test of time, but...
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Antarctica is melting faster than scientists expected
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Scientists are predicting a 110-mile sheet of ice — a chunk the size of the state of Delaware — will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. The cause is warming ocean waters, and the ice melt has...
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EPA launching program to challenge climate science
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has launched the formal process to review and challenge mainstream climate science. The critique will reportedly be modeled on how the U.S. military...
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‘Chasing Coral’ documents destruction of coral reefs
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio By Saskia de Melker and Melanie Saltzman SASKIA DE MELKER: The documentary “Chasing Coral” tells the story of a three-year effort to capture the loss of the world’s coral reefs through time-lapse, underwater photography. The film focuses on the process called…
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In Atlantic City, residents feel injustice of climate change
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Global sea level rise went up 50 percent between 1994 and 2014, according to a study published this week in the journal “Nature Climate Change.” In 2014 alone, it went up an eighth of an inch. But if you want to see...
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Fighting for freshwater amid climate change
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio By Mori Rothman and Melanie Saltzman MIKE TAIBBI: Two men mix sand and shovelfuls of cement, spending hours on end building their seawall— no, re-building it, and higher each time. Banga Roriki is working with his nephew, Robin, who has been living in this house,...
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Why planes can’t fly when it’s too hot, and other ways our civilization can’t take the heat
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN: Now let’s turn to the extreme heat wave baking the West and Southwest parts of the country. Temperatures are well above the 100-degree mark. In California, it was 127 degrees yesterday in Death Valley, 122 in Palm Springs. In Phoenix, the...
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Trump administration defends Paris pullout amid outpouring of support for the climate pact
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Reaction to the president’s announcement yesterday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement has been unusually fierce on both sides. And, today, the White House stood firmly by his decision. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you…
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