To make matters worse, recent data reveals that human-triggered fires are often more destructive and harder to contain than ...
New research shows global warming has become the dominant driver of worsening drought in the western United States.
Dry conditions and moderate droughts are a normal part of the mid-Atlantic’s climate. The Philadelphia region’s “drought of ...
Temperature rise from climate change means trouble for Western states robbed of moisture by “thirstier” atmosphere. Listen to ...
The ever-expanding drought in New England has reached critical levels in Massachusetts and is worsening in Rhode Island, ...
Before hotter temperatures — driven by humans burning fossil fuels — droughts were caused by shifting weather patterns and fluctuating rainfall as part of a natural cycle, she said.
And heatwaves fuelled by climate change can worsen dry conditions when they do occur, by increasing evaporation from the soil ...
An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this ...