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Kerry Sheridan

Kerry Sheridan is Agence France-Presse’s health and science correspondent, covering environmental issues, space, medicine and research in North America. She earlier worked as a foreign correspondent in Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Gaza, Jerusalem and Nicosia, and reported from Baku, Kiev, Rome and Tbilisi . Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, National Geographic, and newspapers around the world.

Climate Change
Trump’s Climate Denial could Cost US $500 bn. a Year

Trump’s Climate Denial could Cost US $500 bn. a Year

Kerry Sheridan

Climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth

Climate Change
Burning Fossil Fuels risks Tipping Earth into ‘Hothouse’ State: Study

Burning Fossil Fuels risks Tipping Earth into ‘Hothouse’ State: Study

Kerry Sheridan

Tampa (AFP) – The planet urgently needs to transition to a green economy because fossil fuel pollution risks pushing the Earth into a lasting and dangerous “hothouse” state, researchers warned on Monday. If polar ice continues to melt, forests are slashed and greenhouse gases rise to new highs — as they currently do each year […]

Climate Change
Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Kerry Sheridan

Tampa (AFP) – Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year due to climate change, a major US report said Wednesday. The annual State of the Climate Report, compiled by more than 450 scientists from over 60 countries, […]

Climate Change
$120 bn. in Coastal Property in Jeopardy from CO2-induced Sea-Level Rise

$120 bn. in Coastal Property in Jeopardy from CO2-induced Sea-Level Rise

Kerry Sheridan

Experts warn of a looming economic crisis caused by water-logged homes that will someday become uninhabitable

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