Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash rains so unusual that they are described as 100-year or even ...

We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from ...

Also under such a scenario, intense extreme weather events such as drought, heatwaves, wildfires, tropical storms and flooding would ... to simulate future global warming scenarios.

A study of ancient flood records shows that recent extreme floods in Europe are not historically unique. Recent “unprecedented” floods are not exceptional when viewed in the context of the distant ...

The Severn analysis shows that floods in the last 72 years of monitoring are not exceptional in the context of paleo-flood records of the last 4,000 years. The largest flood in the Upper Severn ...

Recent “unprecedented” floods are not exceptional if we look further into the past, new research shows. A team of scientists – led by the University of Exeter – used geological palaeo-flood records to ...

“Basically, global warming is turning the atmosphere into a bigger sponge ... In 2023, for example, heavy one-day rains from ...

While we cannot directly attribute this to human-amplified climate change, in a warming world, more precipitation will fall ...

The dramatic nature of glacial lake outburst floods captures headlines, but those aren't the only risks. As scientists expand ...

The heavy rains that led to catastrophic flooding in central Argentina and killed 16 people earlier this month were partly fueled by climate change and could become more frequent in a warmer world, a ...

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, ...