July 2021 is officially the hottest month of July on record, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Last month’s global average temperature was 0.93°C (1.67°F) above the 20th-century average, edging out 2016’s record by 0.01°C (0.02°F). The escalating heat is fueling weather extremes, with prolonged drought, extensive floodingread more

A new study has found that global warming has caused an “almost complete loss of stability” in the network of currents that weave their way through the North Atlantic Ocean, a series of currents that, if they were to collapse entirely, would result in a domino effect of systemic climateread more

  Numerous regions across the globe are baking under oppressive heat waves that are once again breaking records, with the most notable of these events occurring in the north, a troubling indicator of rampant global warming as the high latitudes warm faster than equatorial regions. The US Pacific Northwest hasread more