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The Copernicus Climate Change Service said August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023, at a global average surface air temperature of 16.96 °C. The service, run by the…
The stretch of the year that brings a region its worst heat has grown longer across about half of the world's land over the past 45 years, and in most places it has grown at one end rather than both,…
More than a third of the world's forests grew more productive and less able to recover from shocks at the same time between 2001 and 2021, according to a study published Sept. 10 in Communications…
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information reported on Sept. 9 that the contiguous United States averaged 74.4 degrees Fahrenheit from June through August 2026, the warmest summer in a…
Researchers at University College Cork have published a national index of how exposed the Republic of Ireland's coast is to climate hazards, rating about 8,575 kilometers of shoreline at 250-meter…
The map of what America grows has been sliding north. As the climate has warmed, corn and soybean have pushed farther toward the Dakotas, and the good years have moved with them. A paper published…
The World Meteorological Organization published its annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin on Sept. 7, reporting that smoke from wildfires and ground-level ozone formed during heatwaves are pushing…
Charcoal buried in rock drilled from the seafloor off West Antarctica records forests and bogs that burned again and again about 900 kilometers from where the South Pole then sat, at a time when the…
The rains come back to the Sahel in a handful of dramatic days. Storms build over the dry country south of the Sahara. The first heavy showers fall, and the season that feeds most of the region's…
Coral skeletons from a Marshall Islands atoll have yielded a monthly-resolution temperature record spanning three windows of the past 1,500 years, and the comparison suggests that Central Pacific El…
The World Meteorological Organization said Sept. 3 that El Niño is firmly established in the tropical Pacific and forecast that it will strengthen into a very strong event before peaking toward the…
Tropical forests emerged from severe droughts less able to withstand further disturbance across 68.8% of their area, a study published Sept. 3 in Nature Geoscience reports. Yang Chu and colleagues…