More than 13,000 droughts spanning years have overwhelmed our planet across nearly four decades. These severe droughts are becoming hotter, longer and more devastating as our planet’s global ...

Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and ...

When catastrophic wildfires capture global headlines, such as the unprecedented blazes sweeping through southern Europe this summer or the devastating 2019–20 "Black Summer" in Australia, they are ...

From the American West to Europe, droughts are drying up rivers, fueling destructive fires and reshaping ecosystems. They are also changing the spread of infectious diseases, leading to surges in ...

Dry wells. Dwindling reservoirs. Parched ground. Forest fires. The American West has gotten awfully familiar with drought in the 21st century. And it wouldn’t be the same without the heat. This summer ...

A brutal combination of El Nino, global warming and the rise of the “flash drought” has experts fearing the summers to come.

Only two countries experienced greater extreme weather-related economic losses than Australia last year, an annual study of global economic climate risk has found.

"We could have tens of thousands of new wetlands." ...