A look at global extreme heat over the past 12 months, how climate change has influenced this heat, and strategies to prevent increasingly frequent and intense heat from claiming lives worldwide ...
Report: Revealing the fingerprints of human-caused climate change on daily temperatures around the world—using the Climate Shift Index ™. Key Facts ● Climate Central is launching the Global Climate...
Heat is the top killer among all types of weather hazards, including hurricanes and tornadoes. But hospitals and health care providers do not always report heat-related illnesses or heat as an...
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New elevation data show that by midcentury frequent coastal flooding will rise higher than areas currently home to hundreds of millions of people Executive summary As a result of heat-trapping...
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Introduction The Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project uses the latest advances in climate science to understand the role of climate change in the occurrence of extreme events such as flooding,...
From the heavy rains that sent the Seine into the streets of Paris last year to a parade of storms that left southern England waterlogged during the winter of 2013-2014, there have been startling...
Key Points: The Government of Kenya has declared the country’s drought a national emergency. The areas with the lowest rainfall in this drought are in the northwest and southeast parts of the...
The broiling heat wave that suffocated parts of India with temperatures regularly above 110°F at the end of May — and killed around 2,000 people in just a few days according to estimates — has...
