How extreme will weather events become in the second half of the 21st century? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Most people hear the word "flood" and picture a flood. They hear "heatwave" and picture a heatwave. Simple enough, right? The problem is that the real world doesn't follow those clean, single-story ...

Global changes are reshaping the conditions under which agricultural systems operate. Beyond climate change, land use dynamics, biodiversity loss, soil ...

A review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to public health ...

In 2022, the combined impact of devastating floods and a severe heatwave caused over $40 billion of damage and killed more than 1,700 people across Pakistan. The catastrophe was an example of a ...

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 ...

Researchers have devised a new machine learning method to improve large-scale climate model projections and demonstrated that the new tool makes the models more accurate at both the global and ...

A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.

Around the world, ocean warming is causing fish to move polewards in search of cooler water. But what if you’re a tiny prawn, barramundi or rare sawfish in a northern Australian gulf and your exit ...

A newly published review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to ...