June 21, 2022
Press releases
Coastal flooding will threaten homes of 2.5 million Americans by 2050: Analysis (April 2025)
Climate change added 18 mph to hurricane wind speeds over past five years: Study (November 2024)
Maps reveal how climate change could redraw national borders, depending on the success of United Nations-led negotiations (September 2024)
Climate change exposed 2 billion to more than 30 days of health-threatening temperatures between June and August: Analysis (September 2024)
Urban heat island effect can add more than 10 degrees to temperatures in hottest U.S. neighborhoods (July 2024)
Global Climate Shift Index named best use of technology in the 2024 Anthem Awards (January 2024)
Visualized sea level projections reveal risks for U.N. Climate Change Conference host cities as temperatures rise (November 2023)
October 2023 capped the hottest 12-month span in recorded history (November 2023)
More than 80% of humanity exposed to climate change-attributed heat in July 2023: Report (August 2023)
Climate Central unveils hyperlocal flood simulation technology at Aspen Ideas Festival (March 2023)
Climate Central named 2023 Anthem Awards winner for Climate Shift Index™ and Picturing Our Future (February 2023)
Advance in attribution science calculates daily, local impact of climate change in 1,000+ cities worldwide (October 2022)
Analysis: Rising seas threaten tax bases as private property falls below tidelines (September 2022)
New index reveals influence of climate change on local weather in real time (June 2022)
Study pinpoints coastal wetlands capable of surviving climate change—with human help (June 2022)
Climate Central, The Weather Company agree expand Climate Matters access (May 2022)
Study, illustrations, and maps show the stakes for COP26 climate negotiations (October 2021)
Climate Central launches Realtime Climate alerts to help journalists localize climate change stories (June 2021)
Climate change accounted for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy losses: study (May 2021)
Study: U.S. affordable housing exposed to coastal flood risk projected to triple by 2050 (December 2020)
New study triples global estimates of population threatened by sea level rise (October 2019)
Unchecked warming could bring concurrent crises to U.S. cities (February 2019)
Despite cold snap, warming has transformed U.S. winters (January 2019)
Climate Central receives Friend of the Planet Award from National Center for Science Education (September 2018)
Climate Central story featured on Google Earth's Voyager (September 2018)
Air pollution progress still undermined by western wildfires (August 2018)
Disease danger days on the rise (August 2018)
Sea-level tools released in Spanish (July 2018)
Herramientas para el nivel de mar difundidas en espanol (July 2018)
Missouri farms as carbon storehouse (July 2018)
Climate Central Announces Appointment of Dr. Benjamin Strauss as President and CEO (May 2018)
Climate Central celebrates 10-year mark with new appointments (March 2018)
Climate Matters expands into the newsroom (September 2017)
Global shifting cities - future summer heat (July 2017)
Karen Florini joins Climate Central as Vice President for Programs (June 2017)
Cities face rapidly escalating coastal flood exposure (May 2017)
Climate Central partnering with March for Science (April 2017)
Climate change increased chances of record rains in Louisiana by at least 40 percent (September 2016)
New analysis finds strong climate change link to recent deluge in France (June 2016)
Scientists and journalists launch effort to improve communication of conscientious science (April 2016)
America's preparedness report card shows states largely unprepared to face future extreme weather risk (November 2015)
WXshift launches - site offers weather with local climate trends (September 2015)
Rising sea levels disproportionately affect Gulf's poorest (August 2015)
Vote for Climate Central's Surging Seas (March 2015)
Decoding the SOCCOM floats -- Google Hangout On-Air (March 2015)
Rising ocean floods threaten $10 billion in Texas (December 2014)
Google Hangout with lead scientists on SOCCOM mission (December 2014)
Record floods imminent as seas rise in Delaware (September 2014)
Rising seas drive Isabel-topping threat for D.C. (September 2014)
Widely varying risks for record floods as seas rise in Maryland (September 2014)
Imminent risk for record floods as seas rise in Virginia (September 2014)
New National Science Foundation grant supports the nation's TV weathercasters as local climate educators (September 2014)
Heat Islands Cooking U.S. cities (August 2014)
Record ocean floods to threaten $24 billion in South Carolina (July 2014)
Record ocean floods forecast for North Carolina (July 2014)
1,001 blistering future summers (July 2014)
New Project - World Weather Attribution (June 2014)
Surging Seas risk finder released for California, Oregon, and Washington (June 2014)
Risk Finder released for New England, enhanced for NJ, NY, FL (April 2014)
Marshall Shepherd joins Climate Central board (February 2014)
Surging Seas Risk Finder released for Florida (November 2013)
Most vulnerable in New Jersey at risk of flooding (October 2013)
Surging Seas Risk Finder released for New Jersey and New York (October 2013)
Hybrids better for the climate than electric in most states (August 2013)
Sandy caused 11 billion gallons of sewage overflows to waterways (April 2013)
Winters warming fastest in coldest states (February 2013)
Graphical look at 2012 -the hottest year on record in the U.S. (December 2012)
U.S. emissions down, but decline unlikely to continue (October 2012)
Seven times more very large fires on Forest Service land than in the 1970's (September 2012)
The southwest is the fastest-warming region in the nation (June 2012)
Florida dominates the nation's risk from sea level rise (June 2012)
State-by-state roadmap to climate-friendly cars (April 2012)
Global warming increases risk of flooding to hundreds of coastal energy facilities nationwide (April 2012)
Global warming doubles extreme coastal flood risk nationwide (March 2012)