The Latest Breaking News from WWA

Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions "most likely" exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread flooding, an expert group of scientists said Thursday.

An extreme heatwave in the Sahel region in March and April would not have been as lethal without human-caused climate change, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of climate researchers has found. It warned of an increase in extreme weather if carbon emissions are not rapidly reduced.

Mali and Burkina Faso recorded most extreme heat in what scientists called a once-in-a-200-year occurrence.

Dozens of war widows who remarried have been refused an £87,500 payout by the MoD because of a ‘mean-spirited, last minute’ change to rules

Floods like the one in Greece and Libya now ‘reasonably common’ due to climate crisis, study finds

Report says climate change made rainfall heavier but human factors turned extreme weather into humanitarian disaster

Europe and US heatwaves now have a probability of occuring every 10 and 15 years respectively, study finds

The extreme heat that baked parts of Southeast Asia last month was largely driven by human-induced climate change, according to analysis from a team of scientists.

New Delhi (AFP) - Climate change made record-breaking deadly heatwaves in Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand last month at least 30 times more likely, according to a study published Wednesday.

Paris (AFP) - Climate change does not make cyclones, such as that battering Bangladesh, more frequent but it does render them more intense and destructive, according to climatologists and weather experts.

A report released Thursday shows that the devastating series of droughts that has struck the Horn of Africa since late 2020 would not have occurred without global warming.