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Climate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise strives to provide accurate, clear and granular information about sea level rise and coastal flood hazards both locally and globally, today and tomorrow.
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Climate Matters is a reporting resource program that helps meteorologists and journalists report on climate impacts and solutions in ways that are local, immediate, and personal — grounded in the latest science.
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Climate Central's Partnership Journalism program collaborates with local newsrooms nationwide, including print, radio, digital and TV outlets.
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Check the Climate Shift Index™ to score climate change's influence on today's temperature... anywhere.

Researching and communicating climate change impacts and solutions

We use science and technology to generate thousands of local storylines and compelling visuals that make climate change personal and show what can be done about it.

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Science made clear

Helping journalists bring climate science into reporting

Climate Matters

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Powerful tools to understand impacts and solutions

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Global Climate Shift Index

See the daily influence of climate change on local temperatures around the world.

Realtime reporting resources

Production-ready, localized visuals just a click away

Explore all Climate Matters materials in our resource library

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Climate Matters

Burning Hot: 50 Years of Fire Weather Across the United States

Increasing heat and dryness are putting more people at risk from fire weather across America.

High-impact news collaborations

Partnerships supporting local newsrooms with world-class resources

Wind of Change: Energy Blows Across Nebraska Thanks to Wind Farms

(With The Reader)

Partnership JournalismApril 10, 2023

Surviving the Water: New York City’s Flooding Crisis in the Age of Climate Change

(With Documented)

Partnership JournalismApril 5, 2023

The View from Above: Climate Change Poses Threats to Nebraska’s Birds — And People

(With The Reader)

Partnership JournalismMarch 13, 2023

US coastal wetlands are rapidly disappearing. Here's what it'll take to save them

(With Quartz)

Partnership JournalismMarch 1, 2023

Fire weather extremes make prescribed burns riskier, but more essential than ever

(With KUNR)

Partnership JournalismDecember 12, 2022

After Ian and Nicole, experts warn of health risks from blue-green algae

(With ADAPT/WJCT)

Partnership JournalismNovember 22, 2022

As rising seas flood Charleston's fairways, its municipal golf course leads in adapting

(With ABC4 Charleston)

Partnership JournalismNovember 17, 2022

How climate change could sink NJ’s tax base — and not just at the Shore

(with NJ Spotlight News)

Partnership JournalismOctober 10, 2022

Historic Harriet Tubman Sites at Risk of Rising Seas on Eastern Shore

(with NBC4 Washington)

Partnership JournalismApril 12, 2021

Data may be Colorado’s best bet to mitigate increasing wildfire risk on the Front Range

(with The Colorado Sun)

Partnership JournalismJanuary 23, 2022

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A world made safer for all

Critical work in support of socially and economically disadvantaged groups