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 ...

KEY FACTS. Meteorological summer starts June 1, and the season is heating up across the U.S. Summers have warmed in 97% of 242 U.S. cities analyzed — by an average of 2.6°F since 1970.

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 ...

Global fingerprints of climate change. According to Climate Central’s latest report, People Exposed to Climate Change: December 2024 to February 2025, the effects of carbon pollution (mainly ...

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.

Figure 2. Days with a CSI of 3 or higher for February 2025 for ACIS threaded stations. Analysis based on ERA5 data (February 1-26) and GFS data (February 27-28).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...