Even though the people of Central America have contributed very little to global warming, it is a region particularly vulnerable to climate disruption, with Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala ranked ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Another year of record-high temperatures and extreme weather events around the world has brought the dangers of climate change to the ...

The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (THE CONVERSATION) The ...

The warming climate has not lead to an expected increase in atmospheric moisture over arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The finding, which has surprised scientists, indicates that some regions ...

Up to now, the results of climate simulations have sometimes contradicted the analysis of climate traces from the past. Physicists and climatologists have now brought together experts in climate ...

Rising global temperatures could decimate global wine production over the new few decades, according to a study published Tuesday in the science journal Nature. Researchers estimated that as much as ...

The research by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory focused on rainfall extremes, “owing to their instantaneous triggering of runoff and association with floods, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Abigail Schad. The University of Michigan has numerous labs and researchers dedicated to ...

As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine and the risk of ...