Figure 1. Sapporo, Japan: Projected Future Sea Levels Utilizing Google Earth images, Climate Central developed realistic renderings of coastal locations under different future warming scenarios ...

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 ...

Around 80% of Americans live in urban areas, and this could jump to nearly 90% by 2050. As urban populations expand, so do concerns about climate risks in cities. Built environments can boost ...

Solar’s growing role in the electricity mix The U.S. added more than 121 GW of utility- and small-scale solar capacity in total during the last decade — meaning there was nearly eight times ...

2024 is on track to be Earth’s hottest year on record, and the U.S. experienced 24 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year through November.

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 ...

KEY CONCEPTS About 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities, where the urban heat island effect can worsen heat extremes. Climate Central analyzed how urban heat island intensity varies within ...

The purpose of this analysis is to assess the extent to which human-caused climate change has increased the number of uncomfortably hot summer nights (December-February in the Southern Hemisphere ...

KEY CONCEPTS Climate Central analyzed how and where urban heat islands boost temperatures within 65 major U.S. cities that are home to 50 million people, or 15% of the total U.S. population. The ...

KEY CONCEPTS Relatively small increases in average global temperatures cause relatively large increases in daily heat extremes. Climate Central analyzed the shifting balance between daily hot and ...

SOLAR National Solar Power in 2023 By the end of 2023, the U.S. had an estimated total capacity of 139 gigawatts from utility- and small-scale solar installations — an increase of more than 26 ...

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.