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 ...

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 ...

Future planting zone shifts in U.S. cities. Climate Central also used climate models to project how planting zones could shift by the middle of the century, assuming global pledged commitments to ...

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 ...

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.

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.

KEY CONCEPTS. It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record — both globally and for the U.S. Average global temperatures in 2024 ranked highest in the 145-year record, 1.54°C (2.77°F ...

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.

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: ...

Public and private clean investments have focused on buying, making, and using different technologies in various states. These rankings partly depend on state size, population, natural resources ...

Extreme heat: a health risk boosted by climate change. Extreme heat is a growing health risk in our warming climate. In 2023, a record 2,325 people died from heat in the U.S. alone.. Globally ...