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When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?

That stable period may now be at an end. Climate change began in the atmosphere, where greenhouse gases accumulate, trapping ...

New UC Berkeley-led research indicates that continued climate change could severely increase wildfire above natural levels in ...

Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming. By Raymond Zhong The nation’s top scientific ...

Climate change is already costing New Jersey billions through extreme weather, rising seas and public health impacts. Two Rutgers medical professionals argue that the Polluters Pay Act would help ...

Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: ...

The National Science Foundation has begun dismantling a major ocean monitoring network more than a decade earlier than planned. Some scientists say it will be a “tragic” loss of crucial information ...

Many European forests like this mixed woodland near Krems, Lower Austria, are facing disruptive changes as climate impacts like heat, drought and insect outbreaks amplify each other, sometimes causing ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of climate change, the environment and related topics. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and ...

Workers in yellow safety vests and white helmets stand on a bridge with downed trees all around it. A man in the foreground wearing gloves and heavy boots carries a chainsaw. Workers in Ingram, Texas, ...