CoastalDEM® Coastal Risk Screening Tool
Improved elevation data indicate far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously understood.
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Search by city, state or zip code to track the risk of flooding in your area.
Climate Matters provides meteorologists with data & graphics on local weather events and their link to climate change.
Guided by data and science, our journalists collaborate with local newsrooms on compelling climate change coverage.
From 1970 to 2021, the longest winter cold snaps shrunk for 97% of the 244 U.S. locations analyzed—a winter trend that can have year-round impacts.
Climate Central breaks down four key concepts to highlight when discussing climate change and the winter season.
The time between billion-dollar disasters—time to help communities across the nation recover—has dropped to just 18 days on average in recent years (2016-2020), according to Climate Central’s new presentation of NOAA/NCEI data.
Climate Central’s new toolkit shows how climate change is impacting health locally, and how that may change in the future.
Resources on multiple health impacts of climate change, including locality-specific data and background information.
Improved elevation data indicate far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously understood.
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Realtime Climate monitors local weather and events across the U.S. and generates alerts when certain conditions are met or expected. These alerts provide links to science-based analyses and visualizations—including locality-specific, high-quality graphics—that can help explain events in the context of climate change.
Cities face unprecedented threats from multi-century sea level rise.
Global sea rise caused by heat-trapping pollution and a gradual sinking of the land around the Chesapeake have combined to create some of the…
Climate Central used its public and proprietary tools to assess the current and future coastal flood risk to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway.
As seas rise at a quickening pace, the water continues to creep closer to where the city’s students spend most of their days —…
Corn and soybean yields may fall 5% globally between 2050 and 2100 because of the combination of a drier and hotter climate.