Seattle and Portland set record temperatures on Saturday as a dome of extremely hot air settled over the US Pacific Northwest.
All of Washington and Oregon, and parts of Idaho, Wyoming and…
On the same day last year, air temperatures in the area blazed past 100 degrees F for the first time in recorded history.
On the summer solstice (June 20 — the longest day of the year) two European…
Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history to launch temperatures into the triple digits,…
Hot weather bakes in disadvantage. Regenerating natural and living ecosystems will help us all
Acentury ago the British critic and crime writer GK Chesterton declared that crime fiction is the…
Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding…
A new comparison of measurements finds that some don't add up.
The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That's the takeaway from a new study that finds…
Jane Gilbert urges greater federal and state response to lethal threat posed by rising temperatures.
Miami’s new chief heat officer has called for greater federal and state action on the lethal…
There is more than a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature in at least one of the next five years will temporarily reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
And these odds are…
Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above normal, or last month was much drier than normal. But what does “normal” mean…
Describing hotter temperatures and altered weather as the "new normal" under climate change has become cliché, and updated NOAA data makes it official.
The U.S. is now hotter than it was just a…
In Kenya, the area of optimal tea-growing conditions will be reduced by more than a quarter by 2050.
Your morning cup of tea may never taste the same again if global heating increases and the…
The lecture aims to present and discuss recent research developments in the field of urban overheating, its impact on the city life. The impacts of implementation and performance of advanced heat…
Rise is a 0.2C improvement on previous forecast but still substantially above goal of Paris climate agreement.
New climate targets announced by the US and other rich nations in recent weeks have put…
Mayor overseeing a green regeneration in city where temperatures can already surpass 40C.
Like every Athens mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis is acutely aware of the illustrious heritage of one of the world’…
The continent's annual temperature was warmer than the next five warmest years, which were all also in the last decade.
2020 was the warmest year on record in Europe, a major climate study has found…
Oliver Wyman’s latest research with CDP Europe analyses data from nearly 1,000 of the largest companies in Europe, worth around 80% of the region's market capitalization. It looks at the progress…
Claim: Once global warming reaches 2°C (which we’ve nearly reached already, but scientists are downplaying it), positive feedback loops and tipping points will trigger rapid runaway warming and…
As the climate crisis escalates, some have called for more research into technologies that could reflect away the sun’s rays in order to limit temperature rise. Daisy Dunne looks at the technical,…
Some Sydney residents are living in homes with room temperatures nudging 40 degrees, as climate change raises temperatures and fear of big energy bills stops people from cooling down.
A study of…
Snowier, colder weather may be heading to the Eastern U.S.
High above the North Pole, the polar vortex, a fast-spinning whirl of frigid air, is doing a weird shimmy that may soon bring cold and…