The Latest Breaking News on Climate

Europe's leading weather forecaster ECMWF shows that adding additional data improves wildfire predictions, and that data trumps AI model complexity.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the ninth in a row with above average activity, the WMO says.

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. This reshuffles rainfall patterns, unleashing floods, droughts and storms thousands of miles from…

Two wildfires that started close to each other in the South Carolina mountains and burned an area over half the size of Hilton Head Island are nearly contained

Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change

The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among the devastation were 11 public and private schools and 30 child care facilities. In all, the fires disrupted the education and daily lives of over 700,000 students.

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

The world added the smallest amount of new coal capacity in two decades last year, a report said Thursday, but use of the fossil fuel is still surging in China and India.

The high costs of laundry and warehousing are among the challenges facing startups.

Silver fire leading to fears about Methuselah, a nearly 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine in eastern part of state

Are you prepared for when the power goes out? To prevent massive wildfires in drought-prone, high-wind areas, electrical companies have begun preemptively shutting off electricity. These planned shutdowns are called public safety power shutoffs, abbreviated to PSPS, and they’re increasingly common. So far this year, we’ve seen them in Texas,…