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Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change

At least 120 people have died after a devastating flash flood swept through homes and holiday camps in central Texas in the early hours of 4 July. ... Read More

Media analysis | Jul 10. 2025.
Children drink water from a pipeline in the village of Afraaga, Somaliland.

Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming ... Read More

Attribution | May 7. 2025.
People waiting to get on a plane on the runway. Credit: SJBright / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2YRJ7J5.

Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’

The “wealthiest 10%” of people on the planet are "responsible" for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, accor... Read More

Attribution | May 7. 2025.
Barley growing on ground suffering from drought, with cracks in the soil.

Global soil moisture in 'permanent' decline due to climate change

A new study warns that global declines in soil moisture in the 21st century could mark a “permanent” shift in the world’s water cycle. Combi... Read More

Land and soils | Mar 27. 2025.
A man walks past flooded houses in the flood affected area along the Teesta River.

‘Catastrophic’ 2023 lake outburst in India driven by glacial melt and permafrost thaw

Climate change played a key role in the “catastrophic” 2023 floods in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India, a new study says.   Th... Read More

Attribution | Jan 30. 2025.
LA wildfires media reaction collage

Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change

More than a dozen wildfires have been sweeping through Los Angeles in California, consuming tens of thousands of acres of land and devastating some o... Read More

Media analysis | Jan 13. 2025.
Residents cleaning the mud after tropical storm Kristine flooded Lemery, Philippines, 25 October 2024. Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2YD4WRX.

Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change

This year’s record-breaking typhoon season in the Philippines – which saw six consecutive storm systems hit the country in under a month – was ... Read More

Attribution | Dec 12. 2024.

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h... Read More

Attribution | Nov 18. 2024.
Rickshaws struggle through the flooded streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’

As global temperatures rise, extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent all around the world.  Over the past two deca... Read More

Attribution | Nov 18. 2024.
Bush fire devastation in Australia.

Climate change almost wipes out decline in global area burned by wildfires

A decline in the area burned globally by wildfires over the 20th century due to land-use change has almost entirely been offset by the increase cause... Read More

Wildfires | Oct 21. 2024.
The Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus.

Guest post: The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases

Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the organising committee was concerned about two principal diseases: Covid, which Europe is fully famil... Read More

Guest posts | Oct 15. 2024.
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