Climate Change & Health: Hurricanes
Hurricanes arrive on shores across the planet with their own unique threats and long-term health consequences.
Hurricanes arrive on shores across the planet with their own unique threats and long-term health consequences.
The world is sweltering under an oppressive summer heat wave caused by weak jet stream activity. Could global warming be responsible?
Households and businesses played a key role in reducing peak demand and capping wholesale electricity costs in South Australia last month, with data showing that rooftop solar played a major role in reducing and deferring demand peaks in the midst of the heatwave.
Australia’s largest cities could begin experiencing extreme heatwaves with +50° Celsius temperatures within the relatively near term (within the next ~20 years), even if international climate change and greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals are met, according to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Two major drought indices in Europe are deviating from each other in a way that’s consistent with many climate change simulations — further gaining ground in the march towards the attribution of major events like droughts to climate change — according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The number of days in which extreme heat occurs during the summer have been rising across the US — particularly in the Western states and on the Eastern seaboard — over recent decades, a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council found.
The Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States are experiencing a record-breaking heatwave this year, influenced in part by alterations in traditional jetstream activity as a result of climate change.
Extreme heatwaves like the recent one dubbed “Lucifer” by the media will become commonplace in Southern Europe by the 2050s, a number of prominent researchers in Europe warned in a press statement on Wednesday.
Climate change, and more specifically the overall warming of the global climate, was a noted driver of the recent June 2017 heatwave in Europe, according to a new analysis from researchers involved with Climate Central’s World Weather Attribution program and partners.