The researchers developed this checklist for designing more effective graphs for IPCC reports and other communications. The researchers recommend following graph design best practices and including ...

Carissa Wong is a science journalist in London. Global warming is costing lives, deepening health inequality and driving the spread of disease-carrying ticks and parasites across Europe, according to ...

A dizzying array of weather and water data this summer illustrates alarming changes in Earth's natural systems. Ocean heat waves. Melting glaciers. Record high temperatures. Record low sea ice ...

Health is on the agenda at the COP28 climate meeting. Rising temperatures increase the spread of infectious diseases, claim lives and drive food insecurity. “People are dying from heatwaves caused by ...

Telling the story of our lives—climate change—takes a lot of words. But sometimes, a graphic is what makes things click. Whoever coined the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” was likely not ...

Clouds of delicate cherry blossoms unfurl across the National Mall in Washington D.C. each year when weather conditions send a cue to the trees, but under the influence of a warming climate, the ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...

When a wildfire engulfed the Canadian oil-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray two years ago, it hit insurance company Aviva PLC out of nowhere. The British firm had been active in Canada since 1835. Its ...

Costly climate catastrophes have driven up the cost of home insurance across America — and driven some insurers out of the market completely in some states. Now, new data shows a quarter of all U.S.

It only takes just a fraction of a second to suffer a pretty serious burn. Asphalt and concrete in direct sunlight can often reach surface temperatures as high as 82 Celsius (180 Fahrenheit) on the ...

A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed her six children in the isolated village of El Aguacate, one day in August. Only her three-month-old ...