New research has found that tree species diversity can play a crucial role in protecting forests from the growing threat of ...

Most people hear the word "flood" and picture a flood. They hear "heatwave" and picture a heatwave. Simple enough, right? The problem is that the real world doesn't follow those clean, single-story ...

How extreme will weather events become in the second half of the 21st century? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

In July 2026, China's national meteorological and water resources authorities issued red alerts for flash floods and geological hazards across Liaoning, Jilin, and Anhui provinces, the ceiling of the ...

A review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to public health ...

Human-caused climate change is driving an increase in extreme weather. Heat waves, droughts, and extreme precipitation are occurring more frequently, growing more intense, and directly affecting ...

In 2022, the combined impact of devastating floods and a severe heatwave caused over $40 billion of damage and killed more than 1,700 people across Pakistan. The catastrophe was an example of a ...

Compound climate extremes arise from the co-occurrence or sequence of climatic drivers—such as heatwaves coinciding with droughts, or simultaneous extremes of temperature and precipitation—and often ...

A newly published review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to ...