This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. The role of climate change is becoming increasingly evident in these types ...

For Christoph Schär, ETH Zurich's Professor of Climate and Water Cycle, "global warming" is not quite accurate when it comes to describing the driver of climate change. "A better term would be ...

Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, leading to heavier rainfall extremes across the U.S. Climate Central calculated the Simple Hourly Rainfall Intensity Index (total annual rainfall ...

Policymakers need to be aware of the changes and the impacts it will have. Olivia Rosane is a freelance writer who focuses on environmental issues. Her work has appeared in EcoWatch, YES!, and Real ...

I TRAVEL a lot for work, and everywhere I go people talk about rain. I was in Uganda last November and heard grumbles that the rainy season had failed to arrive. In Albania in March, I read about ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Extreme Precipitation Change 1958 to 2021 Climate change is bringing heavier rainfall extremes and increased, inequitable flood risk to many parts of the U.S. For every ...

Mathew Barlow received travel funding from the US government to attend three IPCC lead author meetings. Water-related hazards can be exceptionally destructive, and the impact of climate change on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The role of climate change is becoming increasingly evident in these types of deluges. Cars were stranded in floodwater on the ...

The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died ...

Mathew Barlow received travel funding from the US government to attend three IPCC lead author meetings. Studies by scientists around the world show that the water cycle has been intensifying and will ...