The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event. By Christina Kelso Days after an intense, record-breaking heat wave ...

The Northern Hemisphere’s summers of 2023, 2024 and 2025 were the three hottest on record, climate agencies in the European Union and the U.S. have announced. This record summer heat was driven ...

Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week’s European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found. Those 1,500 people “have only died because of ...

Climate change caused by humans played a direct role in the deaths of about 1,504 people during a heat wave that struck Europe last week, a new report has found. Warming linked to the combustion of ...

Extreme heat is a killer and its impact is becoming far, far deadlier as the human-caused climate crisis supercharges temperatures, according to a new study, which estimates global warming tripled the ...

The 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest that overwhelmed emergency rooms and left hundreds dead. The 2022 heat wave in India that devastated the wheat harvest. The deadly heat waves in France in ...

Climate change increased the probability and intensity of more than 200 heat waves across the globe over the last two decades, according to a newly published study. The study, published Sept. 10 in ...

The study highlights the increasing frequency of longer, more intense heat waves, exemplified by recent events in the U.S. and Europe. Longer heat waves pose escalating threats to people, agriculture, ...

The increasing role of carbon emissions in causing heat waves, floods, droughts and other extreme weather is becoming clearer, thanks to the growing field of climate attribution studies. This research ...

Three decades after Chicago’s devastating heat wave left more than 700 people dead, city efforts to keep people protected from extreme weather continue to fall short. This weekend marks the 30th ...