Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape ...

01/16/2025 20:00 Mega-droughts are becoming more frequent and intense worldwide Beate Kittl Medienkontakt WSL Birmensdorf Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL. A ...

Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they ...

The study, published in Science, finds that the global land surface affected by these extreme events has expanded at a rate of nearly 50,000 square kilometres (km2) per year in the past four decades – ...

Americans see a troubling pattern in extreme weather — both in hindsight and on the horizon, according to new polling. In the ...

The economic costs of drought could rise by more than one-third in the next 10 years without urgent reforms to water policies and irrigation systems, especially in resource-limited countries, ...

Heat waves, droughts and forest fires are some of the extreme climate-related events that are expected not only to become more frequent but also to increasingly strike at the same time. This ...

Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more ...

Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. But people and governments are ...

This accumulation is no coincidence: multi-year droughts have become more frequent, longer, and more extreme over the last 40 years, according to a study led by the WSL and published in the journal ...