Devastating wildfire, flooding and extreme heat events took place over the past year, several resulting in mass fatalities.

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the global ...

Climate change intensified temperatures across Europe this summer, leading to an additional 16,500 deaths, according to leading climate scientists and epidemiologists. In a new study, experts looked ...

New research shows that stalled atmospheric events linked to heatwaves, floods, and wildfires—driven by a phenomenon called quasi-resonant amplification (QRA)—have nearly tripled since the 1950s. QRAs ...

An outdoor thermometer shows the temperature to be close to 40 degrees in Schwerin. Heat records for June broken in Spain as emergency declared in France. Jens Büttner/dpa Climate change nearly ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Between June 20-24, a heat dome, or the presence of high heat over ...

States across the central and eastern U.S. are under extreme heat watches and warnings as the areas face a dangerous heat wave throughout the first half of the week, according to the National Weather ...

States across the Central and Eastern U.S. are under extreme heat watches and warnings as the areas are facing "dangerous heat," according to the National Weather Service. "Though record high ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — Extreme heat continues to be expected across KAKEland through much of this week, with Extreme Heat Warnings remaining in effect through Wednesday evening for Wichita and many ...