When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists ...

A World Meteorological Organization report warns that a strong El Niño could intensify different events as global temperatures remain exceptionally high.

NORWICH, UK — The scientific evidence for human-caused global warming is stronger than ever, according to a major new review – despite a United States government report questioning the science. The ...

Climate-change impacts are the consequences of climate change – both expected and realised – for natural and human systems. Climate impacts research is typically interdisciplinary and frequently ...

El Niño is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that refers to the unusual warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It is part of a broader climate ...

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A new study finds that climate change and El Niño combined to rev up last month's explosively intensifying Hurricane Polo, which was the longest-lasting Category 5 storm ever to churn in the Pacific.

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...

It is now a ubiquitous cultural ritual to blame any and every weather event on climate change. Those hot days? Climate change. That hurricane? Climate change. The flood somewhere that I saw on social ...

People try to stay cool on the sweltering streets of Manhattan during a heat wave in July 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people ...