The recent catastrophic wildfire in Hawaii is an example of climate change driving compound events. The past few weeks have brought light to the stark increase in the frequency and intensity of ...

Climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and intense worldwide. Some examples of climate-related disasters in recent years include the serious flooding in Venice, Italy in 2019, ...

Combined extreme climate events are likely to become more common in the future if carbon emissions continue to rise, a paper in Nature suggests. The study finds that the frequency of compound ...

Extreme heat and particulate matter (PM 2.5) pollution are among the deadliest environmental hazards that threaten humans and ecosystems. Their co-occurrence, known as compound heat-pollution events, ...

Most people hear the word "flood" and picture a flood. They hear "heatwave" and picture a heatwave. Simple enough, right? The problem is that the real world doesn't follow those clean, single-story ...

Compound hot-dry events, with their amplified negative impacts on ecosystems and societies, are attracting growing attention. This study investigates the global-scale inequality and risks of hot-dry ...

A newly published review in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reveals that climate extremes are increasingly striking in combination—and their compounding impact is posing a growing threat to ...

It's not just the land that is groaning under the heat – the ocean is also suffering from heatwaves. In the Mediterranean Sea along the Italian and Spanish coasts, for example, water temperatures are ...