As the climate warms, heavy downpours are covering more ground—but where exactly? A new study puts the big-picture changes in ...

Severe weather events, such as heavy rainfall, are becoming increasingly commonare on the rise worldwide. Reliable assessments of these events can save lives and protect property. Researchers at the ...

The world is experiencing more rainfall, but many areas are actually getting drier at the same time. Here's why.

There's a particular kind of dread that comes from looking at a map of the world and realizing it no longer looks quite like the one you memorized in school. Colors that shouldn't exist in certain ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...

A Dartmouth study shows that annual rainfall in much of the world has consolidated over the past four decades into heavier storms with longer dry periods in between. The findings are the first to show ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...