
How Hot Is Too Hot for the Human Body?
A study of healthy volunteers found that the combination of heat and humidity gets dangerous faster than many people realize

How Hot Is Too Hot for the Human Body?
A study of healthy volunteers found that the combination of heat and humidity gets dangerous faster than many people realize

With Record-Breaking Heat, Europe Glimpses Its Climate Future
Heat in France, Spain, Italy and the U.K. is exacerbating drought and wildfires and threatening human health


Alaska Is on Pace for Another Historic Fire Season
Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate have contributed to the fires burning around the state

Ocean Oil Slick Map Reveals Enough Greasy Patches to Cover France—Twice
An algorithm-aided analysis of satellite images reveals the size, distribution and sources of oil slicks at sea

Carbon Credits Versus the “Big Gulp”
Reviving peatlands in the San Joaquin River Delta could prevent levee failure and lock away carbon

Attribution Science Linking Warming to Disasters Is Rapidly Advancing
Event attribution is one of the fastest developing areas of climate science since it began 20 years ago

Record Methane Spike Boosts Heat Trapped by Greenhouse Gases
NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index finds that greenhouse gases trapped nearly 50 percent more heat last year than they did in 1990

How Countries ‘Import’ and ‘Export’ Extinction Risk around the World
A recent study puts a number to how much our consumption imperils threatened species

Deadly Heat in India and Pakistan ‘Highly Unlikely’ without Climate Change
A weeks-long heat wave in India and Pakistan was 30 times more likely because of human-caused warming

Climate Change Caused $4 Billion of Typhoon’s Damage
A new wave of attribution research links the economic cost of weather events to climate change

Climate Change Doubled the Likelihood of Devastating South African Floods
Hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed in Durban after torrential rains unleashed flooding

Declines in Air Pollution Have Made Hurricanes Stronger
Without the cooling effect of aerosols, warmer oceans have provided more fuel to storms