New research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening of heat waves ...

Marine heat waves—periods in which the upper water layers in the sea temporarily become exceptionally warm—are occurring with increasing frequency worldwide. Recent studies by the Leibniz ...

Marine heat waves, once rare events, have become more common. One particularly intense event known as “the Blob” lasted years and devastated plankton populations, starving millions of fish and ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

A life-threatening heat wave has enveloped the East Coast, hitting major cities with the worst of the high temperatures on ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.

The increased danger of heat waves is not occurring equally in all regions — in the hot, dry conditions of the Southwestern U.S., heat wave intensity and frequency is increasing particularly ...