The recent catastrophic wildfire in Hawaii is an example of climate change driving compound events. The past few weeks have brought light to the stark increase in the frequency and intensity of ...

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 ...

a and b, spatial patterns of the difference in recovery time between hot-dry and dry events (ΔRT = RT hot-dry-RT dry) based on the NDVI and LAI, respectively. c and d, ΔRT under different aridity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and intense worldwide. Some examples of climate-related disasters in recent years include the serious flooding in Venice, Italy in 2019, ...

A blistering heat wave is expected to engulf much of California this weekend, with temperatures potentially soaring as high as 115 degrees in the southern part of the state. The National Weather ...

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 ...