On October 29, Spain’s Valencia region experienced devastating flooding due to torrential rains, leaving at least 95 dead and causing extensive damage to infrastructure and property. Rain totals ...

October minimum temperatures from 1970 to 2023 were obtained from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS). Local Halloween climate extremes were also retrieved from ACIS, but included each ...

Earth’s atmosphere contains a mix of gases that sustain life by absorbing some solar radiation, allowing living organisms to breathe, and transporting water. One class of gases, known as ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between North Carolina Health News and Climate Central. Climate Central scientist Jennifer Brady contributed data reporting. Pat Murray sits for a ...

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 ...

As of 1 P.M. CDT Monday, October 7, Milton is a historically powerful Category 5 Major Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 175 mph, currently positioned in the southwestern Gulf of ...

During the first week of October (October 1-6, 2024), over 120 million people in Japan experienced unusual heat made at least 3 times more likely by human-caused climate change. The table below ...

School buses cover more than four billion miles each year to bring over 24 million K-12 students to and from school across the U.S. In response to these health and climate risks, a nationwide ...

On Children’s Environmental Health Day, Climate Central and partners came together to discuss the impacts of climate change on children’s health and education — and what’s being done to ...

The fall season has warmed by 2.4°F on average across the contiguous U.S. since 1970. A warmer fall season means that risky heat, high cooling demand, wildfires, and allergies linger later into ...