Climate Attribution

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…

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…

Take a climate model that runs on one supercomputer, move it to another, and you are not guaranteed to get the same climate back. Massonnet and colleagues, writing in Geoscientific Model Development…

Zhang Qianggong was chairing a regional cryosphere meeting in Chengdu on the morning of 26 August when messages began going around a work chat group. His first thought was that it looked like an…

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…

A heatwave rarely leaves an obvious body count. There is no single moment, no wreckage to photograph. Most of the people it kills die at home or in hospital wards over a stretch of days, their deaths…

The layer of soil that thaws each summer above permafrost has been getting deeper at most long-running monitoring sites since 2000, according to a study published Aug. 26th of this year in…

Coatings that build up on soot particles in the air raise black carbon's warming effect from 0.20 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.25, to 0.30 watts per square meter, plus or minus 0.42,…

A study published Aug. 25 in Communications Earth & Environment attributes 40% to 64% of the climate-driven decline in western US water supply to emissions from 122 fossil fuel and cement producers,…

In the first week of April 2025, moorland in western and northern Britain was burning, weeks before the start of the fire season in southern Europe. By August, Galicia had suffered the largest…

Averages are reassuring, and that is exactly the problem. When people talk about rain getting heavier in a warming world, the mental image is usually a whole distribution nudging up a notch:…

Sea surface temperatures in three of four European sea regions this summer reached a level that "would have been virtually impossible in a pre-industrial climate," World Weather Attribution said in a…