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.

Read the full report: Climate change increasing pregnancy risks around the world due to extreme heat (2020-2024) Download the data: For 247 countries, territories, and dependencies and 940 cities ...

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.

KEY CONCEPTS Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, bringing heavier rainfall extremes and related flood risks across the U.S. Some 126 U.S. cities (88% of 144 analyzed) have experienced ...

KEY CONCEPTS The U.S. generated a record 756,621 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity from solar and wind in 2024 — enough to power the equivalent of more than 70 million average American homes ...

Table 3. Top 10 ACIS stations with the highest number of days at or above a CSI of 3 during February 2025. METHODS Calculating the Climate Shift Index All Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels reported ...

KEY CONCEPTS Climate Central analyzed 55 years of temperature data and found that meteorological spring (March - May) has warmed across the U.S. from 1970 to 2024. The spring season has warmed in ...

Read the full report: Climate change is heating up West Africa's cocoa belt Download the data: Data for 44 districts, regions, and states in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria ...

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 ...

October minimum temperatures from 1970 to 2023 were obtained from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS). Local Halloween climate extremes were also retrieved from ACIS, but included each ...

Power outages and hot weather are a dangerous mix. Heat season outages now happen 60% more often than during 2000-2009.

Unusually warm ocean temperatures contributed to Hurricane Beryl's rapid intensification. Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index: Ocean (Ocean CSI), which quantifies the influence of climate ...