New research shows global warming has become the dominant driver of worsening drought in the western United States.

A research team has now discovered that more than 30 percent of the extraordinary intensity and physical extent of the drought can be attributed to human-induced climate change. This extreme event ...

Natural weather systems, for example, can play a key role, as was the case with drought in southern Africa in early 2024. But climate change is shifting global rainfall patterns. While some of the ...

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched ...

So it was fitting that Ivory Coast hosted this month's UN-convened summit on the devastating effects of the three Ds - drought ... fuelled by climate change, and so only global action can make ...

The researchers determined that since 2000, human-caused warming has become the dominant force leading to more drought ... become drier as climate change continues to push global temperatures ...