Climate change poses a significant threat to human health, encompassing both physical and mental well-being. Here's an overview of the ways extreme weather can affect your health.

Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors. They're also evidence of how ...

Event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-caused climate change on specific weather and climate events. This study will update and expand on the 2016 National Academies report, ...

As human activity has increased temperatures globally, determining the costs directly incurred by climate change is ...

Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025 caused record damage and hundreds of deaths. 2025 saw 23 billion-dollar disasters, with severe weather events increasing in frequency and intensity. The effects ...

Due out in early 2027, it's the best climate change documentary I've ever seen. The producers need donations to finish it.

We tend to imagine that experiencing the effects of global warming will wake people up to the problem. The thinking goes that when people see their homes flood or the skies turn orange from wildfire ...

Climate change, depressing and overwhelming, falls into that category. Instead of taking action by radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or updating our infrastructure to live in a world ...

Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states in recent years. To understand why, look to Peru. That's where researchers ...

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The UK Government recently released a report into the effects of climate change on the mental health and well-being of its citizens, and it is not a happy read. It found that extreme weather events ...