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Climate Change Impacts Pathogen Prevalence in Birds and Bats

Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of heat waves. This extreme heat, compounded by wildfires and desert dust, is having a measurable impact on air quality, human health and the environment, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

The deadliest animal in the world is smaller than a pencil eraser and weighs around two-thousandths of a gram — less than...

The World Meteorological Office (WMO) has released a report stating that Asia is experiencing higher-than-average warming and increasing climate change impacts. Floods, storms, droughts, and severe dust storms have caused significant loss of life, damage, and economic losses in the region. The report emphasizes the urgent need for transformative adaptation and strengthening food system resilience to combat these challenges.

The Cerberus heat wave intensifies across southern Europe, with temperatures soaring and surpassing records. Discover the causes, impacts, and the urgent need for climate change adaptation in the face of increasingly frequent and severe heat waves.

Scientists from MIT and the National Oceanography Centre, among others, have detected significant changes in the colour of the world's oceans over the past two decades.

A new study sheds light into a correlation between past climate changes and a reduction in the size of the human brain. In the new study, cognitive scientist Jeff Morgan Stibel analyzed climate records and human remains spanning a 50,000-year period to explore how humans have developed and adapted in response to environmental stress.

Climate change has driven an “unprecedented” number of larger and more deadly cholera outbreaks around the world in 2022, according to World...

Economic losses from drought, floods and landslides have rocketed in Asia with the region suffering a total damage of 35.6 billion dollars,...

Climate change is no doubt one of the major catastrophic consequences for the natural world. This fourth largest driver is not just...