East Asia experiences some of the world’s most severe climate extremes, driven by the complex interplay of the Asian monsoon, regional topography and rapidly changing land use. Advances in both global ...

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

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 ...

A new report arrives as the eastern US grapples with intense heat and wildfire smoke; fire risk prompts power shutoffs in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compound climate extremes arise from the co-occurrence or sequence of climatic drivers—such as heatwaves coinciding with droughts, or simultaneous extremes of temperature and precipitation—and often ...

Devi explains, "Extreme weather events are affecting wild bird populations in complex ways. The level of warmth we see in these heat extremes in Oxfordshire might boost growth because it can increase ...

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