Climate change is shifting the weather patterns of Earth in ways that are far-reaching and long-lasting, and a new study ...
A warmer atmosphere has the potential to hold more moisture, which can contribute to heavier precipitation in any season, scientists say.
More and more major cultural, social, business and arts events around the world are being disrupted or cancelled by extreme weather events caused by climate change, according to a new study published ...
It never used to be possible to attribute individual weather events to climate change and map their full consequences. Thanks ...
PARIS, France — Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme ...
The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm taking shape east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even ...
Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.
The idea that brutal winter conditions of this kind mean that climate change isn’t happening is a misconception.
Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...
As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re taking a look back at some of the significant weather events of the year. Fortunately, it was a quieter year (extreme weather-wise) in Connecticut compared to previous ...
The relatively young science of extreme event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-cause climate change from other factors, such as natural sources of variability like El Niño, as ...
A glimmer of truth seeped out through the pages of The New York Times (NYT) recently, in a story examining how “unprepared” large parts of the nation are in the face of natural disasters. Although it ...