climate impacts

Puffing flying in mid-air with a sand lance in its mouth. Seal Island, Maine.

Derrick Z. Jackson

October 1, 2025

Protecting Puffins in Maine Is an Emotional Commitment

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Brady Watson

July 7, 2025

Trump Administration Actions Could Make Hurricane Helene’s Impacts Worse for Asheville

Brady Watson
Senior Campaign Coordinator

Delta Merner/UCSUSA

March 6, 2025

Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

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

Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0

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

U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Jonathan Fernandez

June 24, 2024

It’s Danger Season–Is Our Nation’s Infrastructure Ready?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Carly Phillips (left) testifying before the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights in April, 2024.

Upasana Khatri

April 25, 2024

A Call for Climate Justice at the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights

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

Two US Navy members work to remove a stranded, hurricane-damaged car from wreckage around it, after a big storm.

Official U.S. Navy Page/Flickr

September 26, 2023

No Time for Delay: Congress Must Keep Disaster Funding Flowing

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

A street in Red Bank, NJ, with traffic lights and cars. Everything looks yellow and hazy because of smoke from the northern wildfires in the summer of 2023.

Andrew Wolff/Unsplash

September 6, 2023

Creating Environmental Action by Changing our Message

UCS Science Network

A shirtless kid who looks to be about 10 or 12 years old stands near a small puddle of water that clearly used to be a lake or river, with dry cracked earth all around it. It looks very hot and dry where he is.

Piyaset/Shutterstock

July 17, 2023

Unrelenting Heat Requires Accountability and Action

Shaina Sadai
Former Hitz Fellow

Wildfire smoke obscures an otherwise beautiful view from Yosemite's Half Dome

Derrick Z. Jackson/UCS

July 5, 2023

Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

The New York City skyline at sunrise or sunset, with the sun and clear view of buildings obscured by yellowish haze from Canadian wildfires in June, 2023

Ahmer Kalam/Unsplash

June 22, 2023

Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

photo of a massive wall of orange dust clouds moving down an empty road lined with tall streetlights, heading straight toward the camera

Caleb Holder/Shutterstock

May 11, 2023

Illinois Dust Storm Disaster Is a Warning for Agriculture

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

image of tornado approaching a car, Texas, 1995

Harald Richter/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

April 12, 2023

Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

Maldives Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Dr Ibrahim Didi signs the decree of underwater cabinet meeting.

Mohamed Seeneen/Flickr

December 20, 2022

Do Paris Agreement Temperature Goals Address Sea Level Rise and Climate Justice?

Shaina Sadai
Former Hitz Fellow

A view of the Climate Justice Pavilion at COP27 in Egypt

Rachel Cleetus

November 11, 2022

Working for Science and Justice at COP27

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

Reuters/Fayaz Aziz

September 21, 2022

It’s (Past) Time for Rich Countries Like the US to Pay Up for Climate Loss and Damage

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Nick Roberts, US Dept. of Interior/CC BY-SA 2.0

July 13, 2022

Danger Season Heat Is On–It’s Past Time to Act

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

A photo taken of marchers at the Poor People's Campaign Assembly and Moral March in June, in Washington, D.C. A banner reads "We won't be silent anymore"

Denise Duffield

July 11, 2022

Finding Science, Faith, Hope, and Unity with the Poor People’s Campaign

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

Delaware Army National Guard members provide flood rescue support in Wilmington, Sept. 2, 2021 alongside local fire departments and police to assist community members who were stranded after heavy rains drenched the area and covered the roads with standing water.

Delaware National Guard/Flickr

June 7, 2022

We Need Climate Resilience Legislation—Now

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo

June 6, 2022

Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

National Interagency Fire Center/Flickr

March 24, 2022

Climate Change Is Turning California’s Wildfire Season into Wildfire Year

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

Terje van der Mooren/Inst of Marine Research

February 15, 2022

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Delaware Army National Guard members provide flood rescue support in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2, 2021, alongside local fire departments and police to assist community members who were stranded after heavy rains drenched the area and covered the roads with standing water, post Hurricane Ida

National Guard/Flickr

January 10, 2022

2021 Was One of the Deadliest and Costliest Years for Climate Disasters

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

a pair of hands holds up a sign reading "I want you to act as if your house is on fire, because it is" at a youth climate protest in NYC

Felton Davis/Flickr

October 27, 2021

Fossil Fuel Obstruction Brought Us the Climate Crisis: Hard Questions Big Oil CEOs Should Answer

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics