Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme weather events have always shaped the course of history, altering civilizations, economies, and even the landscape of ...

DUBAI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - One after another, records have fallen in 2023 alongside skyrocketing temperatures. Deadly floods, heatwaves and storms have unfolded against the backdrop of what climate ...

We are ending 2025 with some incredibly good news that you might not hear about anywhere else — Globally, 2025 has had one of the lowest annual death rates from disasters associated with extreme ...

People clinging to tree tops to stay alive, thousands of homes crumbling, and roads rapidly transforming into rivers of mud. These haunting images are not a dystopian prediction of what is to come: ...

Climate chaos has become the new norm for millions worldwide. Some nations are witnessing weather events so severe they rewrite history books, while others continue to experience relatively stable ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

The roar builds as wind and rain lash against the walls of a low-rise South Florida home. Loose objects — chairs, a bicycle, a bird cage — lift into the air and disappear on a massive gust. The wind ...

The electricity grid is expected to be increasingly affected by climate change and the resulting severe weather episodes, which are predicted to multiply as our world heats up. Fires, floods, ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show — and experts say this trend is likely ...