In the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where most of the human population lives, the months of June, July and…
Heat is one of the deadliest kinds of extreme weather in the United States. From 1991 through 2018, 37 percent of heat-related summer deaths…
Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze,…
A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of…
This week, we need to remind ourselves how the novel temperatures now being experienced are affecting the planet itself. The…
A “pressure-cooker” heatwave that’s broken temperature records twice in 48 hours in the US northwest and western Canada is being…
The heatwave gripping the US west is simultaneously breaking hundreds of temperature records, exacerbating a historic drought and priming the…
The COVID-19 pandemic barely registered as a blip as humanity continued to spew carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere over the…
Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in at least one…
Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions have overheated Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing punishing heat waves, hurricanes, and other extreme weather—that much is widely…