climate change impacts

US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest

May 16, 2023

Cuatro razones por las que investigamos cómo los combustibles fósiles están detrás de los incendios forestales: una mirada detrás del nuevo estudio de UCS

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Ron Lach/Pexels

April 6, 2023

How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Amanda Fencl
Western States Senior Climate Scientist

Footsteps in California snowpack on sunny day in mountains

J. Pablo Ortiz/UCS

April 3, 2023

Drought, Floods, and the Future of California’s Water Challenges

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Florida Fish and Wildlife

December 19, 2022

Danger Season and Hurricane Season Have Ended, Work for Impacted Communities Has Not

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

UNESCO/Li Kun

October 31, 2022

Cultural Heritage Loss and Damage Goes Ignored. This Needs to Change at COP27.

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Hurricane Fiona over Puerto Rico, Sept. 20, 2022.

FrankRamspott/iStock/NASA

September 28, 2022

Puerto Ricans: We Won’t Become Resilient Until We Have an Equitable and Just Recovery

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

AP Photo/David Goldman

August 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

A woman at her damaged home in Loíza, Puerto Rico. Lorie Shaull/CC BY 2.0

May 26, 2022

Building Resilience in Afro-Puerto Rican Community Based on Feminist Practices

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Pablo Ortiz

March 7, 2022

Causes and Consequences of Epic Western US Drought

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

State Farm/CC BY 2.0

December 15, 2021

Here’s How You Can Support Recovery Efforts for Historic Kentucky Tornado

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

Composite image of tropical storm tracks in 2021. AveryTheComrade/Wikimedia Commons

November 30, 2021

US Got “Lucky” with 2021 Hurricane Season—3rd Most Active in Recorded History

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

John Duffy

October 20, 2021

Colorado’s Fossil Fuel Industry Wants to Buy Your Friendship. Don’t Be Fooled.

Ortal Ullman
Senior Outreach Coordinator

Unsplash/Scott Blake

August 24, 2021

Extreme Heat is a Threat to Midwestern Outdoor Workers

James Gignac
Midwest Senior Policy Manager

visuals/unsplash

July 29, 2021

Wildfire Smoke in Your Area? Six Things to Know for Staying Safe

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Jennifer Gidaro/Flickr

June 14, 2021

Can the US Survive California’s Drought?

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Brody Hessin/CC by 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

June 7, 2021

Is Another Brutal Heat and Wildfire Season in Store for US West? Here’s What We Know

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

NASA Worldview

September 14, 2020

In the US West Scorched by Wildfires, We Can Barely Breathe. It’s Going to Get Worse.

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Forest Service Photo by Kari Greer

July 24, 2020

U.S. West Faces a Grim Summer as Red Flag Fire and COVID-19 Warnings Mount

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

November 18, 2019

2019 Lancet Countdown US Policy Brief Pieces Together Climate Change’s Public Health Effects

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

November 10, 2019

US Military on the Front Lines of Extreme Heat

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Melting permafrost on Alaska's North Slope. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

July 11, 2019

How Alaska’s Recent Heat Wave May Worsen Climate Warming

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

Photo: BLM Oregon

June 5, 2019

Scientists Advocating for Climate Action in Oregon: Why we are stepping up and speaking out

UCS Science Network

November 14, 2017

Water in an Uncertain Future: Planning the New Normal

Adrienne Alvord
Former Contributor

August 21, 2017

Going in the Wrong Direction: We Need More Advice on the Impacts of Climate Change

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor