Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding.

Rising temperatures stoked by global warming are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation.

An animation that explains how climate change is the cause of torrential rain in some places and worse drought in others. (AP ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An animation that explains how climate change is the cause of torrential rain in some places and worse ...

FILE - People walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought, in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File) ...

For the first time in over a decade, climate change did not appear on the U.S. intelligence community's annual threat ...

Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that wreak havoc on people and the environment. Rainfall can ...

Rainfall can disappear for years only to return with a vengeance, as it did in California in 2023, with record-setting rain ...

Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier ...