When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused ...

One climatologist said "a perfect storm" of climate extremes primed the western U.S. for one of its worst fire seasons in a ...

Extreme heat isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s a growing public health threat.More than 40 million people across the U.S.

Snow in Athens while France is on fire: The images that lay bare contrast in extreme weather across Europe - As extreme ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of ...

A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with ...

A new report from the National Academies provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event ...

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking study, climate researcher Gottfried Kirchengast and his team at the ...

Climate change is causing a change the frequency and severity of extreme events such as heavy precipitation and droughts, ...

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This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Climate and weather extremes. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further ...

And as global temperatures continue to climb, its role will become harder to ignore—because the two countries, the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide, both face great risks from ...