Climate

Kalifornien, mit einer Wirtschaft, die als fünftgrößte der Welt gilt, hat diese Woche seine bisher aggressivsten Anstrengungen unternommen, um dem Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken, nachdem der Gesetzgeber eine Reihe von Gesetzentwürfen…

SYDNEY, Australia - After years of climate change doubts and attacks on politicians advocating corrective action, Rupert Murdoch's media in his native Australia are planning an editorial campaign for a climate neutral future next…

Whether a heavy rainstorm leads to destructive flooding, however, depends on a combination of factors: the amount of rainfall, the way that water flows and collects on the landscape, and how all that water is managed. Over time, studies…

WASHINGTON - As the country is rocked by the cascade of death and devastation from this summer's record floods, heat waves, droughts, and wildfires, President Biden and Progressive Democrats seize the moment to shake off a sweeping $ 3.5…

“If we already can’t cope with where we are, then there’s little hope that it’s going to improve in a warming climate,” Dr. Dahl said.The country’s vulnerability in the face of extreme weather was punctuated by the downpour that flooded the…

FAIR BLUFF, N.C. — It’s been almost five years since Hurricane Matthew flooded this small town on the coastal plain of North Carolina. But somehow, the damage keeps getting worse.The storm submerged Main Street in four feet of water,…

Hurricane Ida intensified overnight and became a Category 4 storm in a matter of hours. The rapid increase in strength begs the question of how much climate change will affect hurricanes in the Atlantic. While researchers cannot say for…

Hurricane Ida intensified overnight and became a Category 4 storm in a matter of hours. The rapid increase in strength begs the question of how much climate change will affect hurricanes in the Atlantic. While researchers cannot say for…

The study is the latest in the growing field of rapid attribution science, which examines extreme weather events like downpours and heat waves to see whether they were influenced by climate change, and if so, to what extent. It was…

Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.The rain at a research station — not just…