climate

El Niño, a climate pattern characterized by warmer ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, is already causing sea levels to rise off the coast of Latin America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The group hasn’t been alone in reconsidering its climate policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Folks who really think about coastal risks are very concerned that the single-highest sea levels on record are quite possible this winter in California,” said Daniel Swain, a UC climate scientist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

With climate change making extreme weather more severe and frequent, such power outages are likely to become a more common problem.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“If you’re an artist, maybe you can paint signs or murals that get people thinking about climate change,” she went on.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Temperature variations and anomalies in countries close to the equator are typically smaller than in temperate climates.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The diseases that Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are known to carry—chikungunya, Zika, dengue, and yellow fever—as well as most other mosquito-borne diseases, are most common in tropical and subtropical climates.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Paper-based products of the future, the company says, could be made with hesperaloe, a plant with long, pointy leaves that grows in arid climates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

As he points out, while forests and climates vary across the globe, "we're seeing bushfires occur in parts of the world that never had bushfires before".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond