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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.
This report looks at the influence of climate change-driven extreme heat on pregnancy risks over 2020-2024.
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.
Warming trends in 172 U.S. cities are giving plants more time to grow and release pollen. That means longer allergy seasons for millions in the U.S. with seasonal allergies.
An analysis of how climate change boosted United States temperatures in February 2025 Using Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index (CSI) tool to measure the impact of climate change on daily ...
Spring is warming across the U.S., affecting allergy seasons, wildfire risk, and snow-fed water supplies.
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.
Children are especially vulnerable to health impacts from floods — and around 400,000 kids in the contiguous U.S. currently live in areas at risk from a major coastal flood in 2030.
Heat-trapping pollution: What it is, where it comes from, its warming effect, and solutions for a cleaner, cooler future.