Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...

Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Department of Homeland Security director, writes that our need for reliable information on climate threats should matter to all Americans, regardless of location or ...

Corporate broadcast networks again reduced climate coverage in 2025, marking the third year coverage has declined since the networks' high-water mark of 23 hours of reporting in 2022. A Media Matters ...

Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path? Annual climate reports released last week ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eaton Fire victim Ray Ahn amid the rubble of his burned-out home in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 21. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles ...

Not a day goes by without the mainstream media attributing a disaster or problem, global and/or regional, to human-caused climate change. Claims that human greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for ...

Does climate change create or worsen disasters? Science answers “not really.” The evidence provides a slightly different conclusion from many of the headlines screaming disaster doom and gloom from ...

Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare. Mark Hertsgaard and Giles Trendle This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a ...

Extreme weather-related events in early 2026 – including the fatal landslides in Mount Maunganui and Tauranga – have raised a ...