Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

In Nigeria, evidence of global warming and climate change can be attested to by the late onset of rainfall in recent years. In addition, there is reduced precipitation in some parts of the country ...

The grim death toll from heat waves across European cities this past summer would be captured in shocking headlines if they happened all at once, in a bombing or plane crash—835 in Rome, 630 in Athens ...

Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) ...

Global climate change continues to reshape atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial systems, with consequences for human societies and natural ecosystems. As greenhouse gas concentrations rise, average ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

As climate change escalates, intense storms are becoming more common in the tropics and elsewhere, resulting in a variety of forest impacts. Those effects are generating concern among researchers over ...

The effort to meet President Donald Trump’s July 4 budget reconciliation deadline is just heating up in Congress, with potentially significant ramifications for U.S. climate and energy policy. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. According to March 13, 2025 data from Yale Opinion Maps, 72% of ...