Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

In July 2024, a heat wave swept through the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. The surrounding metropolitan area, home to ...

As global average temperatures climb higher ... but without this familiarity, an early season heat wave can pack an unexpectedly strong punch. Heat has a cumulative and compounding effect on ...

Natural climate variability, notably El Nino, may have influenced severe heat wave that struck India and Pakistan in ...

Flips between warm temperatures to cold and vice versa have become quicker, more frequent and more intense in recent decades, ...

Climate advocates hope this sort of model could result in court rulings that make polluters pay. The oil and gas industry ...

ClimaMeter's findings pointed to surface pressure anomalies and extremely dry, calm conditions as key triggers for the extreme heat. Data from 1987–2023, compared to records from 1950–1986 ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world’s reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

Zoom in: Kornhuber and his colleagues produced the first global map of these hothouse ... during the Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021. The town set the record for the highest temperature ...