A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the ...

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January 2025 was the warmest January on record, surpassing the previous record set by January 2024, according to satellite ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many ...

2024 was the hottest year on record, producing intense, long-lasting heat waves. Climate change-intensified extreme events last year included the formation of vast heat domes — areas of high ...

It's looking like 2024 will be the hottest year since record-keeping began, unseating 2023 for the top spot. Climate change is playing a role, and scientists say it was even hotter than expected.

This week's 112-degree heat index in Raleigh isn't random. Climate change now makes days like this five times more likely and summers 4.4 degrees hotter than in the 1970s.

Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 16, the continent recorded 364,485 forest fires, surpassing the 2007 record of 345,322 fires, according to data from the Brazilian Space Research Institute and Reuters ...

Global air travel surged to record levels last year, and airlines are consuming far less sustainable jet fuel than expected. This is a dire combination in the effort to counteract climate change ...