Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet.
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...
That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The researchers said some of the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more ...
Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...
Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report. A ...
Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina spun up like a massive atmospheric engine, using warm ocean water as fuel. Making landfall as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, it ...
One of the persistent claims made across the twentieth century is that humans are causing mass extinction of species, both in rate and numbers, unseen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. I ...
Dr. Hsiang and Dr. Burke are professors at Stanford who measure how climate influences human health and economic systems. We study the effects of climate change on people. We know, from the best ...