You probably saw a multi-colored climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

There's a particular kind of dread that comes from looking at a map of the world and realizing it no longer looks quite like the one you memorized in school. Colors that shouldn't exist in certain ...

Has it felt especially humid where you live this July? The month is almost over, and the stats are staggering: 18 Central and Eastern states — from Arkansas to New Jersey — and D.C. have experienced a ...

A multinational study seen in Scientific Data and led by KAUST reports that the global climate has experienced notable changes in climate classification over the past century, and these shifts are ...

The Climate Shift Index: Humid Heat quantifies the influence of climate change on daily humid heat and related health risks around the globe. It’s grounded in peer-reviewed attribution science and was ...

An early-season heat dome is building over the Gulf of Mexico and will bring a week of unusual heat and humidity to southern states, from Texas to Florida, and southward into Mexico and the Caribbean.