Read the full report: Climate change increasing pregnancy risks around the world due to extreme heat (2020-2024) Download the data: For 247 countries, territories, and dependencies and 940 cities ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Pregnancy Heat-Risk Days Added by Climate Change Extreme heat presents dangerous risks to global maternal health and birth outcomes. According to the U.S. Centers ...

Correction: A previous version of this Climate Shift Index Alert quoted the National Weather Service as saying “one of the most dramatic early-season temperature swings in state history ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between Daily Yonder and Climate Central. Climate Central scientist Daniel Gilford contributed data reporting. The howling winds of a tornado jolted ...

Wildfires are sparked either by natural events (generally lightning) or by human activities. But people started 87% of U.S. wildfires from 2001 to 2024, accounting for almost half of all acres ...

Table 3. Top 10 ACIS stations with the highest number of days at or above a CSI of 3 during April 2025. We analyzed 191 Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) stations associated with U.S. cities.

Gardeners and farmers across the U.S. look to plant hardiness zones for guidance on which plants to grow. The U.S. is divided into 13 plant hardiness zones based on the local coldest temperature ...

The United Kingdom is experiencing unusually high spring temperatures, with heat expected to intensify following the fourth-warmest London Marathon on April 27. Forecasts show that upcoming ...

As sea levels rise, flooding is becoming more common along U.S. coasts, where 29% of the population lives. Climate Central’s Coastal Risk Finder provides maps and analysis of the people, homes ...

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean (Ocean CSI) is a system that computes the climate change fingerprint on daily ocean temperatures. More specifically, it indicates how human-caused climate change ...

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