For years, public debate has treated climate change as a single number on a thermometer, rising in tiny fractions of a degree. That narrow focus misses how risk is already spreading through food systems,

“Storms are a natural part of Earth's system and are not going away,” William Ripple, co-lead author of the 2025 State of the Climate report, told TIME in an email. “We are not losing storms; we are getting storms that are supercharged with extra water and energy.”

The report warns many economic models are failing to capture extreme weather events and rising uncertainty likely to dominate impacts in a hotter world.

A recent study found that the number of reported landslides started to increase in the 1980s and has skyrocketed in recent decades.

University of Delaware undergraduate student Drew Martin and Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, were among thousands of international participants at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, held in November 2025 in Brazil.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds of thousands, researchers said Thursday.

A "perfect storm" of climate change and cyclical La Niña weather patterns have been fuelling the catastrophic flooding sweeping southern Africa for the past month, according to climate scientists.

A glimmer of truth seeped out through the pages of The New York Times (NYT) recently, in a story examining how “unprepared” large parts of the nation are in the face of natural disasters. Although it is impossible to predict the exact dates of such ...

A new study has sounded the alarm on how the record-breaking temperatures experienced in early January will become “five times more likely” in the future.

A "perfect storm" of climate change and cyclical La Niña weather patterns fuelled catastrophic flooding across southern Africa over the past month,