More than 50 million Americans from Texas to Missouri were already under National Weather Service extreme heat warnings or advisories July 20.

"The science behind it is so basic you can see it in daily life," one researcher said. "Warm water drives more evaporation — the bathroom gets much steamier after a hot bath than a cold one." ...

In a press release, Gallego said “extreme heat kills more Americans” annually than every other form of extreme weather combined.

El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, a recurring climate pattern that occurs on ...

Climate science demonstrates that we are tilting the odds that these extreme events will keep worsening in both intensity and frequency.

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

In their first communique since last October, a month before US President Donald Trump's election victory paved the way for his subsequent tariff war, the ministers and central bankers highlighted the ...

The Extreme Heat Emergency Act from Sens. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, and Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, would “explicitly authorize extreme heat as eligible for a Major Disaster Declaration” by the president ...

When the polar vortex stretches, North America feels the chill. New research reveals some of the stratospheric patterns ...

Trump’s assault on weather forecasting and disaster relief agencies — he has often suggested eliminating FEMA entirely — is only one of many examples that illustrate a stark and simple fact: In the ...

WTOL 11 Chief Meteorologist Chris Vickers sits down with both Warning Coordination Meteorologists responsible for keeping ...