Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Set to Reach a New High This Year November 14, 2025 By Eric Roston Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use will reach a record high this year despite countries’ pledges to begin lowering...
Here’s How Much Hurricane Melissa Was Worsened by Climate Change November 6, 2025 By Eric Roston Hurricane Melissa became the most powerful storm on record to strike Jamaica in part because of water made hotter and...
Scientists Link Major Carbon Emitters to Worsening Heat Waves September 11, 2025 By Coco Liu and Eric Roston One quarter of more than 200 heat waves that occurred worldwide this century may have been impossible without human-induced global...
How Hot Can It Get? Scientists Are Struggling to Find an Answer July 17, 2025 By Eric Roston How hot can a heat wave really get? Before June 2021, scientists thought they knew. That’s when one of the...
US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year June 17, 2025 By Eric Roston The US has spent nearly $1 trillion dollars on disaster recovery and other climate-related needs over the 12 months ending...
Scientists Tally Oil Majors’ Climate Damage With Eye to Legal Liability May 1, 2025 By Eric Roston Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of climate attribution research, teasing out the role played by...
Climate Change Made LA 35% More Primed to Burn, Scientists Say January 29, 2025 By Eric Roston Climate change made Southern California’s dangerous wildfire conditions in early January 35% more likely than they would have been before...
Update: Hottest Year Ever Sees World Breach 1.5C Global Warming Target January 10, 2025 By Eric Roston Earth’s warming exceeded 1.5C on an annual basis for the first time in 2024, according to three major climate science...
AI Weather Models Have Shown Promise This Hurricane Season November 19, 2024 By Eric Roston When Hurricane Beryl was rushing across the Atlantic basin in July, the weather forecasting tool made by Google Deepmind, the...
Global Warming Is Already on the Cusp of 1.5C, New Research Finds November 12, 2024 By Eric Roston A newly proposed method for calculating the global temperature suggests that countries may have already failed their main climate goal:...