Climate change influences severe weather by causing longer droughts and higher temperatures in some regions and more intense deluges in others, say climate experts. Among the most vulnerable are ...

Climate risk specialists XDI assessed more than 2,600 regions worldwide ... wreak by 2050 The study is based on a 3-degree Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) increase in temperatures by the end of the ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.