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Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil's Amazon
• Oct. 25, 2024, 10:11 AM ET (AP)
Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change
• Oct. 4, 2024, 11:42 AM ET (AP)
Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign
• Oct. 3, 2024, 3:25 PM ET (AP)
World ski body and UN weather agency team up to help winter sports plan for climate change
• Oct. 3, 2024, 4:11 AM ET (AP)
Drag queen Pattie Gonia aims to give the climate movement a makeover with joy and laughter
• Sep. 26, 2024, 1:56 PM ET (AP)
climate change, periodic modification of Earth’s climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic factors within the Earth system. The atmosphere is a dynamic fluid that is continually in motion. Both its physical properties and its rate and direction of motion are influenced by a variety of factors, including solar radiation, the geographic position of continents, ocean currents, the location and orientation of mountain ranges, atmospheric chemistry, and vegetation growing on the land surface. All these factors change through time. Some factors, ...(100 of 12125 words)