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With high levels of pollution and warming, future summers in 247 U.S. cities would feel like an entirely different part of the country — or the world — by 2100.
Devastating flash floods across the Hill Country in central Texas on July 4 to 7, 2025 left a trail of destruction claiming over 80 lives with more still unaccounted for. As climate change drives ...
This report looks at the influence of climate change-driven extreme heat on pregnancy risks over 2020-2024.
Planting zones are warming — affecting which plants thrive in different U.S. regions. This trend is likely to continue as global temperatures rise.
Coastal Risk Finder, Climate Central’s new interactive map resource, shows who’s at risk from worsening coastal floods driven by rising seas in the U.S. — and what’s being done to adapt.
Climate change is causing hotter temperatures to become more frequent in the four West African countries responsible for producing approximately 70% of the world’s cacao — the key ingredient ...
Click the downloadable graphic: Top 10 Hottest Years in the U.S. Global carbon emissions from burning coal, oil, and methane gas climbed to their highest levels ever in 2024. This heat-trapping ...
Across the Northern Hemisphere, climate change is causing a significant increase in winter days with minimum temperatures above freezing, otherwise called lost winter days.
2024 is on track to be Earth’s hottest year on record, and the U.S. experienced 24 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year through November.
Winter is warming in 235 U.S. cities Climate Central analyzed winter average temperature data from 241 U.S. locations (see Methodology) to see how and where winters have warmed from 1970 to 2024 ...
Conditions that trigger fall color each year are shifting with climate change, potentially disrupting the ecological and economic value linked to fall foliage.
Power outages and hot weather are a dangerous mix. Heat season outages now happen 60% more often than during 2000-2009.