Climate

Climate

The world’s record-breaking hot streak has lasted 14 months. When will it end?

Science News spoke with NOAA climatologist Karin Gleason about the ongoing record-breaking streak of record-high global temperatures.

Health & Medicine

Your medications might make it harder for you to beat the heat

Chronic illnesses and the medications that treat them may make it harder to handle extreme heat. It’s even harder to study how.

Climate

Extraordinary heat waves have readers asking how A/C affects greenhouse gas emissions

Air conditioning is responsible for nearly 4 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions but that will climb along with rising temperatures.

Earth

Squall line tornadoes are sneaky, dangerous and difficult to forecast

New research is revealing the secrets of these destructive twisters, which dodge radar scans and often form at night.

Climate

Zigzag walls could help buildings beat the heat

A corrugated exterior wall reflects heat to space and absorbs less heat from the ground, keeping it several degrees cooler than a flat wall.

Climate

Record-breaking Coral Sea temperatures threaten the Great Barrier Reef

Near-annual extreme heat in the Coral Sea, including in 2024, is causing back-to-back mass bleaching events in the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

Climate

Climate change is driving the extreme heat baking France’s Olympics

In this week’s Extreme Climate Update, we look at record-breaking temps around the world and explain what the heat index is.

Climate

Earth’s jet stream helps create the seeds of clouds

The newly discovered process for making aerosols might also be the most productive.

Climate

Earth keeps breaking global heat records

How hot could it get? In the first edition of Science News’ Extreme Climate Update, we look at how high temperatures could soar.

Climate

Twisters asks if you can 'tame' a tornado. We have the answer

Science News talked to a meteorologist and Twisters’ tornado consultant to separate fact from fiction in Hollywood’s latest extreme weather thriller.

Climate

Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought

Radiocarbon from bomb tests reveals that plants store more carbon than previously estimated in leaves and stems, which are vulnerable to degradation.

Climate

Why this year’s climate conditions helped Hurricane Beryl smash records

Scientists predicted an active hurricane season, but a July Category 5 storm is still stunning.