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Seth Borenstein

@borenbears.bsky.social
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Climate and science writer at The Associated Press, covers disasters, all sorts of science. Teaches journalism at NYU/DC. Father of 3, husband of 1. Red Sox fan.

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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Finding joy not sacrifice in fighting climate change apnews.com/article/eart...
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Climate doom and gloom? Try laughing instead. Activists embrace joy in the fight to save Earth
Across the world, groups of activists, teachers and psychologists are tackling one of the world’s most daunting problems — human-caused climate change — with laughter, dancing, hugs and most especiall...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Be wary of weather apps during winter storms Rely on human expertise apnews.com/article/wint...
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What weather apps sometimes miss about dangerous winter storm conditions
That snowflake icon on your smartphone app might be quick and handy — it just might not be as accurate as a human when the weather gets rough.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
apnews.com/article/wild... Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s
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Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s
A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What does a shutdown do to EPA and our air, water and land? Previous one in first Trump term meant more deadly air pollution, a study found. apnews.com/article/epa-...
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EPA's job is to protect America's air, water and land. Here's how a shutdown affects that effort
The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown. The agency's mission to protect health and the environment is at risk without a federal budget.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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The uphill battle ahead: Four different leaders, four different takes on global warming
At the United Nations this week, four leaders showed why tackling climate change is complex. U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as a scam, claiming renewable energy would harm the ec...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change
In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental i...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Global warming’s heat adds to America’s craving for sugar. apnews.com/article/heat...
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As world gets hotter, Americans are turning to more sugar, study finds
A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States. As temperatures rise, Americans, especially those who are poorer and less educated, are drinking more sugary...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
apnews.com/article/clim... AP asked scientists & Economists about key Trump climate documents and 64 answered. An overwhelming majority blasted them for bias, distortions, cherry picking and errors. Asked to give a grade, the most common response was F.
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Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding
Scientists are criticizing two key documents from the Trump administration that challenge the idea that climate change endangers the public.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Large chunks of area east of the Rockies have had record muggy (dew point >65) days this summer. Average June July dew point in area has increased 2.5 dF since 1951 data shows. Basic physics says warmer air holds more moisture. apnews.com/article/humi...
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Feel sticky this summer? That's because it's been record muggy East of the Rockies
More than 70 million Americans have experienced the muggiest start to summer on record, with climate change increasing humidity in the Eastern U.S.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That's no accident apnews.com/article/unit...
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To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That's no accident
This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure challenges.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Our weather is getting more extreme but our thinking about it and actions aren’t catching up. apnews.com/article/texa... with @drshepherd2013.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com and others
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The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up
Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
apnews.com/article/clim... 60 international scientists update on warming getting hotter faster: “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster” @hausfath.bsky.social tells AP. Less than 3 years till 1.5dC is locked in; decade rate of warming now.27 sC
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Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come
A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the Earth will be pretty much locked into hitting the internationally agreed upon...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950
A new study says climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Ping. Ping. Ping. AP takes you into the heart of a hailstorm with storm-chasing scientists to find out how better to forecast & reduce the annual $10B in damage. Join me, @brittanykpeters.bsky.social & Carolyn Kaster inside a Texas hailstorm. Hear it. See it. apnews.com/article/stor...
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Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science
A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an underappreciated weat...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We asked 30 scientists about EPA’s new proposal saying fossil fuel power plant greenhouse gas emissions aren’t dangerous. Here’s what they told us: apnews.com/article/clim...
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EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren't dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here's what they say
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly ...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
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Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
apnews.com/article/hurr... Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
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Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
As hurricane season begins, experts in storms and disasters are worried about massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to the storms.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024 apnews.com/article/hurr...
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Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024
With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Storytelling for Climate Impact · Luma
Join us for a high-energy, interactive session exploring the art and science of impact storytelling, communication, and policy change. From viral science…
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
apnews.com/article/clim... world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
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The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Nearly half of the local weather service offices are down by 20% after DOGE cuts, according to data obtained by AP apnews.com/article/doge...
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Nearly half of National Weather Services offices have 20% vacancy rates, and experts say it's a risk
Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts balloon launches
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
apnews.com/article/noaa... US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say
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The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say
Multiple sources tell The Associated Press that the Trump Administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Study says climate change will even make Earth's orbit a mess. Climate change cools upper atmosphere, making it less dense. So there’s less pulling of satellites down to Earth & more clutter in orbit. apnews.com/article/clim...
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Study says climate change will even make Earth's orbit a mess
A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Forget saving the planet. Clean energy interests sharpen a different message: Money and jobs
Saving the planet is so 2024. Clean energy leaders across the globe are now emphasizing the greener side of green: wealth-building.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Rats! Warmer temperatures are making more of the rodents as rat sightings in cities soar. Washington DC leads in increasing trend. apnews.com/article/rats...
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Rats! More rodents are infesting cities as scientists say warmer temperatures mean more rat babies
A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Why Greenland? I explain why the remote resource rich island occupies a key position in a warming world. You may never go there like I did in 2019 but this beautiful place is the focus of Earth’s future for climate, geopolitical & economic reasons. apnews.com/article/gree...
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Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming world
Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Winter’s worst about to hit: nasty snow & ice smacking US from KC to DC. Add in prolonged bone chilling temperatures for 2/3 of the US. It’s the polar vortex calling with a climate change connection. apnews.com/article/wint...
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A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold
Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The world’s nations keep faltering in efforts to save the planet from environmental crises. Recent UN negotiations on climate, biodiversity, plastics & desertification failed or reached disputed limited deals. apnews.com/article/unit...
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Can U.N. summits save the planet? A faltering year of talks brings up questions about the process
In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/11/2024
We have a winner! The gavel came down on COP29 at 05:31am local time, according to IISD. So, in reverse order, these were the closest three guesses... 3) Richard Klein, SEI - 05:43 2) @borenbears.bsky.social, Associated Press - 05:36 1) Clement Metivier, @wwf-uk.bsky.social - 05:29
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Covering UN climate talks is about to enter the grueling all-night stage, but first a little fun: apnews.com/article/clim...
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In a board game, climate experts work to save the world, which diplomats at COP29 try in real life
While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won't
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
How warm sea water looms large as Beryl approaches Texas and for the rest of the Atlantic hurricane season
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Come along with Carolyn Kaster and I on our great cicada chasing tour of the Midwest where we use all or most) of our senses to experience the wonders x.com/borenbears/s...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
The symphony of cicadas singing for sex and how they do it apnews.com/article/cica...
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How do cicadas make their signature sound, so eerie and amazingly loud?
What stands out during a cicada invasion is the sound. It's a constant, eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else in.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
What it looks like, feels like and sounds like to be in the epicenter of cicada chaos apnews.com/article/cica...
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Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying in the American Midwest. Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people’s shirts, hats and even faces.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Video explainer from the epicenter of cicada chaos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3J...
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Cicada Invasion Epicenter I AP Explains
Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people’s shirts, hats and even faces. Illinois is at the center of this year's double cicada emergence. #cicada #invasivespecies #bugs #environment (AP Video: Melissa Winder) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature's artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in bugs. Must see photo gallery by Carolyn Kaster
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world's oceans all break high temperature marks.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
John Kerry tells AP in exit interview that he is leaving on a high note for global climate talks apnews.com/article/john.... Watch video: apnews.com/video/dubai-...
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John Kerry reflects on time as top US climate negotiator and 'major breakthrough' in climate talks
John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change.
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Horrible to witness, scientist says of widespread coral death. Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys apnews.com/article/2b08...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
I go into the snow to talk about why the us is in deep freeze and rest of world so darn hot. youtu.be/T0J7zvN1Y_8?...
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Why is the US in a deep freeze when much of the world is hot?
While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather. Scientists say that fits with what clima...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it's climate change. I explain how the polar vortex is more frequently escaping a warming Arctic. World is still near record hot, but US is left out in the cold. apnews.com/article/pola...
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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I went on camera to explain what dozens of scientists told AP about what 2023 record smashing heat means. youtube.com/watch?v=-mkJ...
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