This story was produced through a collaboration between Radio IQ and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Michelle Young and Jennifer Brady (Climate Central) contributed data ...

It’s Climate Week NYC. This event overlaps with the annual gathering of leaders from 193 countries at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York. Whether in formal U.N. meetings or during ...

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The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies both average temperatures and extreme heat in cities. According to the U.S. Environmental ...

America’s capacity to generate carbon-free electricity grew during 2023 — part of a decade-long growth trend for renewable energy. Solar and wind account for more of our nation’s energy mix than ever ...

Mosquitoes thrive in warm, humid weather. As our climate warms, many places are becoming more hospitable to mosquitoes—and the health risks they can carry. A new Climate Central analysis assessed long ...

The Tokyo Olympics in 2021 were the hottest Games ever, when extreme humid heat led to 146 reported cases of heat-related illness among Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, ...

The Front Lines of Climate Change: Global warming is, by definition, global, but the impacts of climate change touch everyone on a local level. How each community responds depends on its unique mix of ...

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 ...

Climate change is affecting weather conditions in ways that increase wildfire risks. Warming temperatures and increasingly dry air, vegetation, and soils make fires easier to spread, and more ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...