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# Explore your climate story

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### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

### Global Climate Shift Index

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

### Global Climate Shift Index

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

### Climate Shift Index: Ocean

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean quantifies the influence of climate change on sea surface temperatures. It’s grounded in peer-reviewed attribution science and was launched by Climate Central in 2024.

### Climate Shift Index: Ocean

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean quantifies the influence of climate change on sea surface temperatures. It’s grounded in peer-reviewed attribution science and was launched by Climate Central in 2024.

### Picturing Our Future

Visualize how climate and energy choices this decade will influence sea levels for hundreds of years.

### Picturing Our Future

Visualize how climate and energy choices this decade will influence sea levels for hundreds of years.

### Sinking Tax Base

Quantify the impact of sea level rise on county tax bases as property lines move inland.

### Sinking Tax Base

Quantify the impact of sea level rise on county tax bases as property lines move inland.

### Weather Power

Create and download graphical forecasts of daily wind or solar electricity generation for any U.S. media market, county, or congressional district

### Weather Power

Create and download graphical forecasts of daily wind or solar electricity generation for any U.S. media market, county, or congressional district

### Risk Finder

Explore the risks of sea level rise and coastal flooding in any U.S. community with downloadable tables and figures, maps, local projections, and potential impacts to populations, land, property values, and more

### Risk Finder

Explore the risks of sea level rise and coastal flooding in any U.S. community with downloadable tables and figures, maps, local projections, and potential impacts to populations, land, property values, and more

### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

### Global Climate Shift Index

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

### Global Climate Shift Index

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

### Climate Shift Index: Ocean

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean quantifies the influence of climate change on sea surface temperatures. It’s grounded in peer-reviewed attribution science and was launched by Climate Central in 2024.

### Climate Shift Index: Ocean

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean quantifies the influence of climate change on sea surface temperatures. It’s grounded in peer-reviewed attribution science and was launched by Climate Central in 2024.

### Picturing Our Future

Visualize how climate and energy choices this decade will influence sea levels for hundreds of years.

### Picturing Our Future

Visualize how climate and energy choices this decade will influence sea levels for hundreds of years.

### Sinking Tax Base

Quantify the impact of sea level rise on county tax bases as property lines move inland.

### Sinking Tax Base

Quantify the impact of sea level rise on county tax bases as property lines move inland.

### Weather Power

Create and download graphical forecasts of daily wind or solar electricity generation for any U.S. media market, county, or congressional district

### Weather Power

Create and download graphical forecasts of daily wind or solar electricity generation for any U.S. media market, county, or congressional district

### Risk Finder

Explore the risks of sea level rise and coastal flooding in any U.S. community with downloadable tables and figures, maps, local projections, and potential impacts to populations, land, property values, and more

### Risk Finder

Explore the risks of sea level rise and coastal flooding in any U.S. community with downloadable tables and figures, maps, local projections, and potential impacts to populations, land, property values, and more

### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

### Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations

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### Study: Ocean warming has intensified recent hurricanes

Climate Central’s recently published study shows climate change increased the intensity for most Atlantic hurricanes between 2019 and 2023 –- and for every storm so far in 2024.

Climate Matters

### Paris: 100 Years of Olympic Warming

Risky heat has been on the rise in Paris since the city hosted the 1924 Games.

Climate Matters

### Weather-related Power Outages Rising

Climate change boosts the frequency and intensity of extreme weather that wreaks havoc on the power grid.

Climate Matters

### Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities

New Climate Central analysis shows where urban heat is most intense in 65 major cities that account for 15% of the U.S. population.

Climate Matters

### A Decade of U.S. Solar Growth

The U.S. produced more solar power in 2023 than ever before – part of a decade-long growth trend for renewable energy.

Climate Matters

### Warming Climate, More Pollen, Worse Allergies

Climate change is making pollen season longer and more intense, worsening health effects for millions of Americans with seasonal allergies and asthma — including children.

Climate Matters

### Severe Storm Super Hazards

Past and projected future trends in destructive and deadly severe storm hazards including nighttime tornadoes and large hail.

## High-impact news collaborations

**Partnerships supporting local newsrooms with world-class resources**

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

(With KUNR)

Partnership JournalismDecember 12, 2022

### The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections

(with The Daily Yonder)

Partnership JournalismAugust 12, 2024

### Schools in Deep Water: Bay Area Faces Uphill Battle Against Climate Change

(With KQED)

Partnership JournalismAugust 4, 2024

### Black Detroit children with asthma hardest hit by seasonal allergies

(With Bridge Detriot)

Partnership JournalismJune 16, 2024

### Flooding and mold multiply damage from Maine’s harsher storms

(With Bangor Daily News)

Partnership JournalismMarch 18, 2024

### Last year’s Canadian wildfire smoke may have killed more than 100 in Michigan alone

(With Planet Detroit)

Partnership JournalismMay 28, 2024

### 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

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