Climate

Enderby Land is one of the least-visited coasts on Earth, a long white shoulder of East Antarctica facing the Indian Ocean, with no permanent settlement and barely a weather station. What falls there…

Tropical cyclones that cross oceans where the sea surface temperature varies little from kilometer to kilometer reach about 40% higher intensity than storms crossing water with sharp temperature…

A modeling study published Sept. 1 in Communications Earth & Environment calculates that an additional sustained 10% cut in methane emissions held to 2050 (about 35 MtCH₄ per year, or megatons of…

The United Kingdom recorded its warmest summer since national records began in 1884, the Met Office said Sept. 1 in provisional figures, and a rapid attribution analysis released alongside them put…

Droughts that dry out every layer of the soil at once have grown longer and more frequent across more than half of the world's land since 1981, according to a study published Sept. 1 in Nature…

In Kubschütz, a village in the Saxon Oberlausitz, the temperature on the night of June 27 never fell below 29.4 °C, the highest night-time minimum ever recorded in Germany. Earlier that day, at…

A survey of the northern Gulf of Mexico has found that 70 bottom simulating reflections (the seismic echo geologists use to trace how deep methane hydrate reaches beneath the seafloor) do not…

A heatwave arrives faster than it leaves. Anyone who has sat through one knows the shape of it: the air thickens over a day or two, then sits there for a week before grudgingly letting go. Climate…

A study published on Aug. 28, 2026, in Environmental Research Letters projects that heat stress on crops and farm workers leaves global economic output roughly 1% lower by 2100 under a…

World Weather Attribution reported on Aug. 28 that human-caused climate change has reduced early wet-season rainfall by about 6% in Jamaica and about 9% in Puerto Rico, based on its analysis of the…

Coral skeletons from the Galápagos Islands carry a record of ocean temperature stretching back 1,000 years. Their chemistry shows a large recent increase in year-to-year temperature swings in the…

The case for cooling the planet deliberately rests on a reassuring piece of arithmetic. Reflect a little more sunlight back into space, and the global average temperature comes down. The arithmetic…