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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h... Read More

Attribution | Nov 18. 2024.
Rickshaws struggle through the flooded streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’

As global temperatures rise, extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent all around the world.  Over the past two deca... Read More

Attribution | Nov 18. 2024.
Bush fire devastation in Australia.

Climate change almost wipes out decline in global area burned by wildfires

A decline in the area burned globally by wildfires over the 20th century due to land-use change has almost entirely been offset by the increase cause... Read More

Wildfires | Oct 21. 2024.
The Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus.

Guest post: The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases

Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the organising committee was concerned about two principal diseases: Covid, which Europe is fully famil... Read More

Guest posts | Oct 15. 2024.
Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico, heading toward the Florida gulf coast. Credit: AC NewsPhoto / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2Y8YHBB.

Explainer: How hotter oceans can fuel more intense Atlantic hurricanes

Record-breaking sea temperatures across the Gulf of Mexico have been a key ingredient behind some of the intense hurricanes devastating the region th... Read More

Storms | Oct 9. 2024.
A wildfire burns on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia, Canada.

Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?

The small village of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada was once a pitstop for hikers and tourists taking in nearby scenic mountain ranges and rivers... Read More

Heatwaves | Aug 27. 2024.
Rescuers cross a river in Kerala state, India after a landslide on 31 July 2024.

Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense

The “monsoon downpour” that triggered deadly landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district last month was made 10% heavier by human-caused climate ch... Read More

Attribution | Aug 14. 2024.
A firefighter working to put out a fire in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil on 7 July 2024.

Climate change made the ‘supercharged’ 2024 Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense

Human-caused climate change made the “unprecedented” wildfires that spread across Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands in June 2024 between four and five... Read More

Attribution | Aug 8. 2024.
Flood damage in northern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s ‘deadly’ early spring rainfall made twice as likely by El Niño

The extreme rainfall that hit Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran in April and May this year was made twice as likely by El Niño, a new rapid attribution... Read More

Attribution | Jun 13. 2024.
A classroom in a UK school.

English schools face ‘overheating’ for one-third of year under 2C warming

English schools could exceed an “overheating” threshold of 26C for one-third of the academic year if global warming reaches 2C above pre-industri... Read More

Heatwaves | May 14. 2024.
Red cargo ship transits through Gatun Locks, Panama Canal.

Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño

A lengthy drought that caused widespread disruption to commercial ships passing through the Panama Canal in 2023 would have been “unlikely” witho... Read More

Attribution | May 1. 2024.
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