A new study shows heat waves increasingly trigger sudden, severe droughts across the world as the planet warms.

Mussels baked by the billions. Insect larvae cooked inside scorched cherries. Baby birds plummeted to their deaths from their overheating nests. But some species did just fine during the 2021 North ...

Forecasters said an early heat wave in California could break Bay Area records and threaten the state’s fragile snowpack.

A new study in the journal Nature Cities shows that as temperatures rise aboveground, the number of subway riders reporting uncomfortable heat belowground increases.

Extreme heat can have serious health consequences, but until recently, public health researchers only had imprecise tools to study it. Brown University Professor Allan Just is working to change that.

Phoenix and other parts of the U.S. Southwest will likely hit or surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Such historic heat is not normal in March.

Well above-normal temperatures are forecast for at least a week as a March heat wave begins across California.

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has ...

On June 23, 2021, a historic heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest like a vengeful oven, sending temperatures skyrocketing from Juneau, Alaska to Eureka, California. In the diverse, ...

Drought and heatwaves occurring together – known as “compound” events – have increased “substantially” across the world since the early 2000s, a new study shows.