Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows destruction in Gerton, North Carolina, on October 7, 2024 after the passage of Hurricane Helene. More than 230 people are now confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene ...

Event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-caused climate change on specific weather and climate events. This study will update and expand on the 2016 National Academies report, ...

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the ...

In 2025, carbon pollution made 89% of record high daily temperatures set across 247 major U.S. cities more likely — and influenced risky extreme heat events around the globe. Hurricane Melissa, the ...

A decade ago, scientists would say they were pretty sure a specific hurricane, heatwave, flood, drought or raging wildfire was more severe due to climate change, but they could rarely pinpoint its ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the International Meteorological Organization—the forerunner to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It is also the 60th anniversary of the World ...

Senior Researcher, School of Geography and the Environmen, University of Oxford, and Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews Earlier this year, the UK’s ...

Sam Hampton receives funding from the Economics and Social Research Council. He is affiliated with the University of Oxford and University of Bath. Tina Fawcett currently receives funding from UKRI.

The political conversation around climate change is often framed by two extreme narratives: climate change is either a farce that doesn't exist, or it's poised to kill us all quite soon. Over the past ...