Extreme downpours caught people off guard from Las Vegas to Kentucky in July 2022.
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By following moisture from the oceans to the land, researchers worked out exactly how three oceans conspire to deliver deluges of rain to eastern Australia.
Evidence is mounting that, as the climate warms, the amount of rain falling in heavy storms is increasing, especially in the central and eastern US.
A new attribution study finds human-caused climate change made Europe’s July floods more likely. What about Tennessee’s flooding? An atmospheric scientist explains how scientists make the connection.
The growing frequency of climate extremes affected human health and caused wide-scale damages to the ecosystems that people depend upon, including agriculture, fisheries and freshwater.
Climate change has boosted the likelihood of heavy rainfall, hailstorms, flooding and drought seen in some parts of the world. What does the future hold?
Alerting people to the threat of surface water flooding is still in its infancy, but a new review reveals a combination of prediction modelling and weather watching aims to help affected communities.
Climate change is expected to bring the UK both more heatwaves, and more intense rainfall.
Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
With heatwaves, droughts and fires all on the rise, the federal government is urged to merge its separate strategies on disaster resilience and climate readiness.
As global warming intensifies violent weather events, the most vulnerable countries affected need help to respond more effectively.
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tampa
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Associate professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the Climate Dynamics and Hydrometeorolgy Center, University of Arizona
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Honorary Professor, Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology; Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Global Water Academy, York University, Canada
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
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Professor, UNSW
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Reader and NERC Independent Research Fellow, Bangor University