Climate Change

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September 12, 2024

Hottest Summer on Record May Be Ending, but Fight to Protect Workers from Heat Is Far from Over

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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September 5, 2024

Newsom Can Continue His Climate Leadership by Signing These Three Bills

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

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September 3, 2024

Climate Plans for Aging US Must Focus on Higher Risks to Older Adults

Guest Commentary

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August 26, 2024

Solutions to Rising Cost of Climate Change in California Should Include Passage of Prop 4

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

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August 22, 2024

Seven Years after Hurricane María, in Puerto Rico You Can’t Even Count on Keeping the Lights On

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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August 22, 2024

A siete años del huracán María, en Puerto Rico no se puede contar ni con el servicio eléctrico

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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August 13, 2024

Heat, Flooding, and Fire Overwhelming Halfway through 2024 Danger Season

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Puffin bird on rock with fish in its mouth.

Derrick Z. Jackson

August 8, 2024

Care for Endangered Seabirds Continues Amid a 51-Year Legacy of Optimism

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Delegates to the 61st IPCC session convene in a huddle at the end of the afternoon plenary session.

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August 5, 2024

Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Ice floats near the coast of West Antarctica as viewed from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on October 28, 2016, in-flight over Antarctica.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

August 2, 2024

Our New Research Says the Solid Earth Can Help Protect the Antarctic Ice Sheet—Only if We Cut Emissions Now

Shaina Sadai
Hitz Fellow

The exterior of the building in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the UN IPCC talks are happening is lit up at night

Kristy Dahl/UCS

August 1, 2024

What Happens at Meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

A red pickup truck idles on a road in rural Nebraska with its passenger side door open. Nearby, the massive black funnel cloud of a tornado touches down.

Brent Koops/NOAA Weather in Focus Photo Contest 2015

July 30, 2024

Three Takeaways from Twisters: Hillbillies, Science, and Solutions

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

Attendees at the 61st Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change watch a presentation.

Delta Merner/UCS

July 29, 2024

Reporting from Bulgaria on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

A firefighter drinks water in Oregon during a controlled burn to try to contain wildfires in the state.

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July 26, 2024

Climate Change Fuels Catastrophic Wildfires Across the Western U.S. and Canada

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Exhausted male soccer player lying on field after evening soccer game.

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July 26, 2024

Plenty of Heat and No AC for Olympians—Unless Your Country Can Afford to Bring Its Own

Brady Watson
Senior Campaign Coordinator

Twin violent tornadoes outside of Wisner, Nebraska in 2014.

Ethan Schisler/NOAA Weather in Focus Photo Contest 2015

July 25, 2024

Twisters, and the Elephant in the Room

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Man pushes man in a motorized scooter across flooded sidewalk.

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July 16, 2024

Ask a Scientist: What Happens When Sea Level Rise Comes for Public Housing?

Guest Commentary

outside digital thermometer in California reading 123 degrees.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

July 15, 2024

Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

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July 1, 2024

How the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Benefits Big Oil and Gas

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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June 24, 2024

Infrastructure at Risk in Your Hometown: New Map Shows What Will Flood as Sea Level Rises

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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June 24, 2024

New Analysis Pinpoints Critical Infrastructure Threatened by Rising Seas in Hundreds of Coastal Communities

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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June 24, 2024

Necesitamos acción urgente para crear la resiliencia costera al aumento del nivel del mar

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

An industrial area near Houston, TX, with large storage tanks and scaffolding everywhere, is submerged by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

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June 24, 2024

How to Protect Coastal Infrastructure at Risk from Sea Level Rise

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Erlon/Getty Images

June 24, 2024

Infraestructura en riesgo en su ciudad: Un nuevo mapa muestra lo que se inundará con el aumento del nivel del mar

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist