Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area
Starting on January 7 2025 two large wildfires (the Palisades and Eaton wildfires) erupted in Los Angeles, California. The fires
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Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Extreme downpours increasing in southeastern Spain as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate
From October 29-30, 2024, eastern Spain was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall...
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Extraordinary March heatwave in Central Asia up to 10 °C hotter in a warming climate
In March 2025, Central Asia experienced an unusually intense heatwave, with temperatures reaching record highs across the region, reaching maxima
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Can we come up with a meaningful number?
Today, three years after his death, and before the 10-year anniversary of World Weather Attribution, the last paper Geert Jan
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Climate change supercharged late typhoon season in the Philippines, highlighting the need for resilience to consecutive events
The 2024 typhoon season in the Philippines was extraordinary, with six typhoons affecting the country within just 30 days, several
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters
In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe...
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Climate change and high exposure increased costs and disruption to lives and livelihoods from flooding associated with exceptionally heavy rainfall in Central Europe
In mid September 2024 a very large region in Central Europe, including Poland, Czechia, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Germany and Slovakia
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Climate change increased Typhoon Gaemi’s wind speeds and rainfall, with devastating impacts across the western Pacific region
Typhoon Gaemi (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina) strengthened into a tropical storm on July 20th while tracking
Sam Fraser-Baxter
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Conflict, poverty and water management issues exposing vulnerable communities in Africa to extreme floods that are now common events because of climate change
The rainy season from July to September 2024 was marked by extremely heavy and sometimes unprecedented rainfall in large parts
Sam Fraser-Baxter
13:26
Climate change key driver of catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Helene that devastated both coastal and inland communities
Late on September 26th, Hurricane Helene made landfall at category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale on the panhandle of Florida,
