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Current & Future Climate Hazards in Your City
Climate change carries many hazards. These are the dangers that could increase in the future.
Top Climate Hazards in 2050
Which climate hazard is expected to intensify the fastest in your area?
CLIMATE PILE-UP: Global Warming’s Compounding Dangers
Recent research shows that unchecked warming pollution could bring concurrent climate crises to U.S. cities by midcentury — and that emissions cuts could reduce the danger.
2018’s Billion-Dollar Disasters Show Weather & Climate Impacts Across the U.S.
2018 saw another near-record number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.
Billion-Dollar Disasters Trending Up
The four years with the most billion-dollar disasters have all happened since 2011.
States With the Most Billion-Dollar Disasters
These states have suffered the most billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980.
A 2018 Summer of Extremes
From deluge to wildfires, summer 2018 was one of extremes in the U.S.
Breathing Fire: All This Smoke Means Smaller Newborns And More ER Visits
People with lung conditions are more likely to refill prescriptions and be hospitalized during smoke waves, and when pregnant mothers are exposed there’s a “small but significant" decline in birth weight.
