Leah Stokes on voting for climate, where policy failed, and the Carbon Wave Calculator This week I’m excited to be handing this newsletter o

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Sécheresse, feux de forêts, éboulements en montagne : avec cinq épisodes caniculaires depuis le mois de mai, l’été 2026 a d’ores et déjà battu tous les records de chaleur sous nos latitudes.

Die Schweiz hat heiss. Seit Wochen rollt eine Hitzewelle nach der anderen übers Land. Am Freitag möglicherweise zum letzten Mal im 2026. Blick spricht mit ETH-Klimawissenschaftlerin Sonia Seneviratne ...

ETH-Klimaforscherin Sonia Seneviratne misst Rekordtrockenheit in der ganzen Schweiz – und Umweltminister Rösti hat sie nie angerufen.

Used to chronicling other people’s vacation disasters, a travel reporter faced the new normal on her own long-awaited family trip.

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

Scientists have gotten much better at parsing how severe events are linked to climate change, a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found. The re...

La canicule en juin en Suisse a mis en évidence les difficultés à faire face à ces nouveaux extrêmes climatiques, affirme Sonia Seneviratne de l’EPFZ.

Temperature records were smashed in June - and scientists warn this is a sign of things to come.

Extremwetter treffen die Schweiz immer häufiger. Die Klimaforscherin Sonia Seneviratne der ETH Zürich warnt davor, diese Entwicklung zu unterschätzen.

Nach den Rekordtemperaturen im Juni fordern Wissenschaftler rasches Handeln: Die Schweiz müsse beim Klimaschutz und beim Hitzeschutz deutlich schneller vorwärtsmachen.

In recent months, we have learned that the relationship between the US federal government and American science is not as stable as many of us thought it to be. While many grants that were abruptly (an...

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Positive images of heat waves reduce the effects of messages about extreme heat among U.S. adults” in the journal Environmental Communicat...

Lors des négociations climatiques à Bonn, en Allemagne, en amont de la COP31, des représentants de nombreux pays ont exprimé leurs inquiétudes face à certains Etats qui chercheraient à saper le consen...

Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. We track twelve key sets of indicators of the state of the climate system, clos...

Swiss climatologist Sonia Seneviratne warns that the heatwave season is expanding, underscoring growing climate risks.

Alors qu’une vague de chaleur précoce touche l’ouest de l’Europe, « que dire ? », s'interroge le climatologue Christophe Cassou dans un texte publié sur LinkedIn. Directeur de recherche du CNRS au Lab...

All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

Switzerland ranks among the countries most affected by climate change. We break down the impacts using five key figures.