Heat, sea level rise, polar melting: They're all picking up pace.

Scorching heat waves, severe cold snaps and other extreme weather events are limiting where species can exist—and affecting biodiversity estimates—for more than 500 North American bird species, ...

Comparing the past couple of decades to 2070–2099, the total number of hourly heat extremes triples in the medium scenario and increases by 4.5 times in the high scenario. For every half a degree C ...

Extreme weather is now a reality for many families, and young children need support they can understand and trust,” Joseph ...

One climatologist said "a perfect storm" of climate extremes primed the western U.S. for one of its worst fire seasons in a decade. Meanwhile, Canadian wildfire smoke fills the air.

Just as rivers flow across the land, sustaining communities, livelihoods and biodiversity, ‘invisible rivers’ flow above us, carrying more water vapour than all the rivers on Earth combined. These ...

Research shows climate change is driving loneliness. At the same time, isolation is making communities less resilient to extreme weather.

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 ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and prompting the cancellation of many events. Washington, DC, saw a high of ...

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