Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, science has incontrovertibly shown. Increasing heat, changing rain and snow patterns,

President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world’s overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures.

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change.

That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The researchers said some of the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more likely than they would have been a decade ago due to climate change.

Scientists are racing to rescue hundreds of datasets, websites and federal reports that have been deleted by the administration.

At a particularly sensitive political moment for the Climate Commitment Act, state officials acknowledged they've overestimated the efficacy of its programs.

Washington state officials have issued a correction after they were caught exaggerating the benefits of state spending to curb climate change.

Ski Sunday presenter Ed Leigh on the changes in women's sport, climate and technology during 20 years with the iconic BBC Sport programme.