Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C) ...

Limiting warming to 2C above pre-industrial temperatures may not be enough to prevent “extreme global climate outcomes”.

Rural areas in Africa are more affected by heatwaves than cities, and will experience hundreds of millions of dangerously hot ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn't ...

In Switzerland, the Morteratsch-Pers glacier complex is rapidly shrinking. This ice cave, formed in 2023, marks a glacier gate where meltwater emerges. Without decisive climate action, Swiss glaciers ...

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when ...