UCLA researchers have released an alarming new finding — the duration of heat waves is increasing faster than global warming ...

In late June 2025, an image circulating online authentically showed a weather map covered in lava that was broadcast on ...

Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was ...

Data shows these six U.S. states are heating up faster than the national average, revealing the uneven impacts of climate ...

Lhoussaine Youabd knows nearly all the languages spoken in Morocco, a useful skill in his role warning the population of growing climate-related risks in the country braving increasingly common heat ...

At least nine states along the East Coast faced summer swelter on Monday, and the steamy weather is expected to persist on ...

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

In short, climate change is causing heat waves to become more common, intense and longer-lasting.

Of all the forms of extreme weather — droughts, floods, hurricanes — heat waves are the ones that scientists can most reliably tie to climate change caused by fossil fuel pollution.

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.