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Sea Level Rise
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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Our Realtime Fingerprints program develops tools, such as the Climate Shift Index, to help reveal how climate change is disrupting our world.
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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

Exploration made easy

Powerful tools to understand impacts and solutions

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Climate Shift Index

Demonstrate immediate impacts by using the Climate Shift Index to put a number on the daily influence of climate change on local weather conditions.

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

Introducing the Climate Shift Index

Today, in the spirit of #ShowYourStripes Day, Climate Central launches the Climate Shift Index—a science-based tool that now makes it possible to communicate the local influence of climate change, every day.

High-impact news collaborations

Partnerships supporting local newsrooms with world-class resources

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

(with The Colorado Sun)

Partnership JournalismJanuary 23, 2022

Still rare in Iowa, electric car powers Des Moines family’s home during blackouts

(with NBC WHO 13 Des Moines)

Partnership JournalismApril 8, 2022

Ellis Island, lighthouses among historic NJ sites flooding as seas rise

(with NJ Spotlight News)

Partnership JournalismApril 29, 2022

The looming threat for Maine’s iconic potato industry

(with the Bangor Daily News)

Partnership JournalismMay 11, 2022

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A world made safer for all

Critical work in support of socially and economically disadvantaged groups