Global hunger has increased recently, returning to levels observed a decade ago. Climate change is identified as a key factor contributing to these increases and is a significant cause of severe food ...

The intensifying hot extreme events under anthropogenic warming severely affect human health and the natural environment, yet the factors driving their heterogeneous geographical distribution remain ...

Something has shifted in the way climate scientists talk about their own work. The language has become noticeably more ...

After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...

By Brian Kenety Climate change is increasingly acting as a threat multiplier in the Lake Chad Basin, exacerbating insecurity, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Climate change as defined by the United Nations refers to ...

In a time of increasing climate variability, researchers Pengfei Xue and Miraj B. Kayastha have developed regional Earth system models to better understand and predict extreme weather and ...

While the world's most advanced climate models successfully reproduce heat waves once they are underway, they consistently ...

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have suggested that the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on monsoons would ...

Climate is constantly changing and will continue to do so; we cannot assume a stable climate system even in the absence of anthropogenic influences. Such variability manifests itself over a continuum ...

The terrestrial water cycle is a fundamental component of Earth's climate system, governing the exchange of water between land surfaces and the atmosphere.

Climate change is unexpectedly causing north Pacific storms to shift toward the Arctic, throwing projections for future West Coast weather into question. Reading time 2 minutes In November 2024, a ...