Major corporations now face a serious dilemma: stand by federal rejections of climate change and climate action or take steps to adapt to a world where scientists say environmental changes may cost companies billions of dollars in repairs.
The next 20 years will bring record temperatures regardless of our emissions scenario, but there's still time to stop that trend continuing, new research finds.
The deadly Russian wildfires of 2010, the Brisbane floods of 2011 and the inundation of New York by Hurricane Harvey in 2012 were all "perfect storms", devastating combinations of weather and climate conditions that no-one saw coming.
Scientists are unraveling the reasons why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average. A prime example is the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, which has been experiencing “sunny day flooding” that had not been expected for decades.
