2025 in Review: U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters
KEY FACTS According to Climate Central, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar…
Climate setbacks and steps forward from 2025
There’s no mincing words: The list of climate records broken and the number of “unprecedented” extreme weather events…
How do we know the role of climate change in weather events? Attribution science.
KEY FACTS It’s possible to make explicit connections between climate change and some types of weather events we…
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
Methodology and Data Sources As of July 28, 2025, Climate Central manages and maintains this billion-dollar disaster dataset,…
Burning Fossil Fuels Worsens Air Quality
KEY FACTS Burning fossil fuels creates heat-trapping pollution as well as air pollutants, both of which can worsen…
Climate change made western heat five times more likely
The Western United States braces for another round of extreme heat from June 29 to July 1, with…
Earth Day: Fastest-Warming U.S. Cities and States
KEY CONCEPTS All 50 states and 240 U.S. cities (99% of 242 analyzed) have warmed since the first…
Despite the increasingly gloomy news about climate change, scientist Katharine Hayhoe offers skeptics a sunny attitude
Texas Tech scientist Katharine Hayhoe has spent the past 20 years grappling with the question of how to…
Wildfires across Japan and South Korea fueled by climate change
Unseasonably high temperatures have swept across South Korea and Japan, contributing to dangerous wildfire conditions from March 21,…
Climate-driven warmth aids two-day, early-spring severe weather threat
A large and intense weather system is poised to bring multiple rounds of severe weather across the Mid/Upper…
Fastest-Warming Seasons in the UK
KEY CONCEPTS As our climate heats up, all four seasons are warming — but at different rates across…
“Generational Bomb Cyclone” Storm Éowyn intensified over unusually warm ocean temperatures heated by climate change
A rare Red Weather Warning was issued for Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland ahead of expected destructive…