The recent catastrophic wildfire in Hawaii is an example of climate change driving compound events. The past few weeks have brought light to the stark increase in the frequency and intensity of ...

Climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and intense worldwide. Some examples of climate-related disasters in recent years include the serious flooding in Venice, Italy in 2019, ...

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph. Many of us warned several days in advance that a slow-moving Category 1 or 2 storm would ...

Most people hear the word "flood" and picture a flood. They hear "heatwave" and picture a heatwave. Simple enough, right? The problem is that the real world doesn't follow those clean, single-story ...

It's not just the land that is groaning under the heat—the ocean is also suffering from heatwaves. In the Mediterranean Sea along the Italian and Spanish coasts, for example, water temperatures are ...

In 2022, the combined impact of devastating floods and a severe heatwave caused over $40 billion of damage and killed more than 1,700 people across Pakistan. The catastrophe was an example of a ...

A newly published review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to ...