Such events distort the polar vortex, which causes Arctic air to descend into the U.S. and causes temperatures to plummet.

The planet experienced a cascade of unprecedented weather events in 2025, marking another year where reality outpaced even ...

Climate change is causing the weather to get more erratic across the U.S. Rain storms that used to happen once in a lifetime now occur every few years. Heat waves are hotter, and last longer.

A new study shows that during drought, it's not how hot or how dry it is that determines gas emissions from plants—but how quickly conditions change. This discovery reshapes our understanding of the ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Weather Power Outages 2000 to 2023 Many types of extreme weather are becoming more frequent or intense because of human-caused climate change. These events put stress ...

Maria Temming: In 2021, a historic heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest killing hundreds of people and fueling wildfires. Researchers later reported that human-caused climate change made this heat ...

A decade ago, scientists would say they were pretty sure a specific hurricane, heatwave, flood, drought or raging wildfire was more severe due to climate change, but they could rarely pinpoint its ...

One in five Americans worry it will become more difficult to continue living in their current community due to climate change, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll. About the same number ...

Despite continuous efforts to evaluate and predict changes in Earth's climate, most models still struggle to accurately ...

Extreme weather caused by climate change is driving up the prices of basic food products worldwide and posing wider risks to society, a new study has found. The cost of a wide range of goods – from ...