Climate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that gave rise to the devastating LA fires, a scientific study has confirmed. It made those weather conditions about 35% more likely, according to World Weather Attribution – globally
People walk through Central Park during cold winter weather in New York City on January 6, 2025. Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images CNN — Winter’s most potent Arctic blast yet is about to unleash dangerously low temperatures that will be the coldest to hit the
Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause. Research around the world has linked polluted air to increased risks
The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens. People in New Delhi, India, wait in line for water in
The past two years were the first to officially exceed the 1.5°C temperature threshold for global warming that countries in the Paris Agreement pledged to avoid. Could geoengineering provide a solution to reverse the trend and lower temperatures? A child
Nature examines whether the temperature spike is a blip or an enduring — and concerning — trend. Earth’s temperature has been climbing for decades.Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP/Alamy Earth’s temperature has surged in the past two years, and climate scientists will soon
More than 60 million Americans across more than 30 states are in the grips of a huge winter storm that could bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade A polar vortex has brought frigid weather down
A record 4 million common murres died as a result of a two-year marine heat wave in Alaska, a study found. A reduced murre colony nests on South Island of the Semidi Islands in 2021 after the heat wave. Brie
Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 president, center, during a closing plenary session at the COP29 UN Climate Summit in the early hours Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan. Joshua A. Bickel/AP CNN — The world agreed to a new climate deal at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday,
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged G20 leaders in Rio to “show leadership” on emissions cuts to rescue stalled UN climate talks in Azerbaijan. Deadlocked over a $1 trillion climate investment deal, nations hope G20 compromise will break the impasse on