From melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland to rapidly expanding megacities and vanishing lakes, satellite imagery shows the tangible scale of planetary change happening in real time. This ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect infrastructure and communities from 50- and 100-year floods. But as climate change ...

Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year's heat wave that gripped the U.S. Midwest, happen in June or July, August or September? Scientists studying the subtle effects of ...

The world is right now on the cusp of significant climate changes, with far reaching consequences for our world. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is an 86% chance that ...

Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms ...

The Earth's climate system derives its energy from the Sun and any variations in the balance between energy received and emitted by the Earth can change the climate. Variations can be caused by ...