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Extreme heat streaks are becoming more common in major U.S. cities as climate change fuels more dangerous heat.
In the 65 largest U.S. cities, 76% of K-12 public school students attend school in extreme urban heat islands according to new Climate Central analysis.
A global review of extreme heat over the past 12 months (May 2024 to May 2025), climate change’s influence on that heat, and strategies to prevent increasingly frequent and intense heat from ...
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 ...
Winters are warming the fastest in most of the 245 U.S. locations analyzed by Climate Central — but all four seasons are warming, introducing changes that affect health, water supplies ...
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.
Investment in the U.S. clean energy transition has never been higher. Explore which states and clean technologies have seen the most investment.
Spain braces for another heatwave through the weekend (August 21-26) made five times more likely by climate change.