Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

About 76 per cent of India’s population now lives in districts at high or very high heat risk, with rising warmth and ...

Climate change and its impacts — rising seas that lead to land loss, for example, and sustained droughts that make it harder to grow crops in certain areas — are influencing where people live and ...

Much of south-eastern Australia is currently in the grip of a heat wave, which is expected to peak over the next two days. Heat waves often trigger bushfires, particularly if combined with strong ...

2024 was the hottest in at least 125,000 years and the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. 2024 also has the ...