Humidity, the amount of moisture in the air, is a crucial component of weather conditions. It varies significantly across ...

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...

As global temperatures rise, more regions are experiencing heat levels that exceed the human body's ability to cool itself.

Last month set a new record for the hottest January ever documented, surprising climate experts who expected heat to ease up ...

Despite enduring one of the coldest winters in years, Laos continues to grapple with the lasting effects of the past years of ...

Dominica, China and Honduras were the countries most affected by extreme weather, according to the Climate Risk Index.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. These graphics show why ...

The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has ...

for extended periods should induce hyperthermia in humans and other mammals, as dissipation of metabolic heat becomes impossible." The 35°C cited by Sherwood and Huber is what's referred to as a ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

Heatwaves don't just fry the innards of us puny humans, they also desiccate and roast the world ... damage "increased substantially" during that period, its catastrophic effects skyrocketed by nearly ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new dye that can strongly absorb second near-IR radiation and transform it to heat ... near-IR waves easily penetrate human tissue ...