The Balkans have been pounded by storms, while wildfires broke out in Türkiye, Greece, Spain and France in the last week.

The phenomenon, dubbed "hydroclimate whiplash," has become more frequent and intense, according to recent research, with Canada particularly susceptible.

President Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Tuesday that walked back some tariffs for carmakers, removing levies that Ford, General Motors and others have complained would backfire on U.S ...

The rapid and devastating spread of the Los Angeles fires was fueled in part by greater extremes of wet and dry weather, a pattern called “hydroclimate whiplash” or “hydroclimate volatility” that is ...

Worsening Climate "Whiplash" Helps Explain Why California's Wildfires Were so Ferocious A confluence of factors is making wildfires worse. Among them: increasingly dramatic swings between wet and dry ...

In a recent review of some 200 climate papers, he and his coauthors dubbed such swings from excessive rain to drought as hydroclimate whiplash.

Many areas are forecast to see increases in hydroclimate whiplash, which will probably increase the most in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific, north Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and northern ...

“Hydroclimate whiplash” – or rapid swings between intensely dry and extremely wet periods of weather – is happening more often worldwide, according to a new study.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide.

Rapid swings from intensely wet conditions to extreme dryness are becoming more common, according to a new study. Scientists call it ‘hydroclimate whiplash,’ and it can lead to devastating ...