Research briefs

The new study investigates how climate change contributed to the weather conditions experienced during summer 2026, with a particular focus on July's dry conditions and the role of increasing atmospheric drying.

Heatwaves over land worldwide are beginning earlier, ending later, and occurring over longer seasons, while the first heatwave of the season has recently shifted toward faster onset, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

As Western United States grapples with severe drought, leading cities to scramble for water and farmers to abandon some crops, a new study has found that 122 major oil, gas, coal, and cement companies and state-owned operations are partially responsible.

This article shows that it is vital to focus on who delivers the early warning messages. Messengers commanding high levels of trust need to be actively engaged to ensure information reaches people frequently and widely.

Hurricane agency forecasts warn at the country-scale and not for one site. This paper introduces LiveCyc, a probabilistic forecasting system that takes any agency forecast and works out the wind distribution at the 1-km scale of a single neighborhood.

The analysis points towards a common governance roadmap. It suggests better integration of flood‑risk information into urban planning, stronger and more actionable warning systems, more resilient critical infrastructure, and greater cooperation.

Because atmospheric dust overall has a slight cooling effect on the climate, researchers say its decrease may have contributed modestly to recent climate warming.

Study reveals a hidden problem: Temperature proxies used in many climate-impact studies can contain substantial measurement error, leading to misestimation of true impacts of temperature and, potentially understate climate impacts by at least 15%.