Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional one that parched the American West from 2020--22. A study has found that evaporation accounted ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Hourly Rainfall Intensity 1970 to 2024 This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See ...

David Easterling, a NOAA climate scientist, didn’t think much about the rainfall forecast until his wife called him on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 24, asking whether he’d seen the weather outlook.

Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant Arizona Comes to Agreement With Major Dairy Farm to Cut Groundwater Pumping That Is Draining Wells ...

Kentucky saw a huge amount of rainfall in the span of a few days in early April, which experts say is in line with the region's shift toward more intense rainfall. Heavier rainfall is driving flood ...

Hurricane Helene crossed the Gulf of Mexico at a time when sea surface temperatures were at record highs and then barreled into a region where heavy rains had left the ground saturated. The result was ...

Climate change intensified the July Fourth deluge that swept through Texas Hill Country and killed over 100 people along the Guadalupe River, according to a new scientific analysis, and researchers ...

A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern ...

This rapid transition between wet and dry weather conditions is a hallmark of climate change, and it’s also an accelerating climate threat. This phenomenon is called “precipitation whiplashes,” and ...