The Latest Breaking News from WWA

Climate change played a key factor in torrential rains in India that triggered catastrophic landslides killing at least 200 people last month, a group of scientists said Wednesday.

The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of scientists also said that extreme highs witnessed over that region in May and June were four times as likely to occur today as a quarter of a century ago.

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