A new study by NASA's James Hansen finds that extreme weather events are a direct consequence of global warming.

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.

How the Climate Shift Index works We often hear how global average temperatures are increasing because of climate change, but people don’t experience global average temperatures. Instead, we ...

Warming oceans fuel stronger tropical cyclones that bring more heavy rainfall and higher storm surge when they make landfall.

Figure 1. Sapporo, Japan: Projected Future Sea Levels Utilizing Google Earth images, Climate Central developed realistic renderings of coastal locations under different future warming scenarios ...

Sea Level Rise to Put the “Squeeze” on Coastal Georgia By Bruce Dorminey Sapelo Island Ferry. Credit: Bruce Dorminey. Darien, Georgia – Some 60 miles south of Savannah, Dorset Hurley strides ...

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Few other places in the West exemplify the changes brought about by climate change more than the Navajo Nation.

2023 was the planet’s hottest year on record. The global warming stripes have been updated.

America’s capacity to generate carbon-free energy from solar and wind power grew in 2022. New analysis of Climate Central’s WeatherPower™ data shows how much and where.

Large-scale power outages are increasingly common in the United States, as extreme weather fueled by climate change wreaks havoc on the aging electrical grid. These outages affect millions of ...

New Climate Central analysis shows where urban heat is most intense in 65 major cities that account for 15% of the U.S. population.