Danger Season

Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay

June 28, 2023

#DangerSeason Unleashed: Killer Heat Threatens 75 Million in US South, No End in Sight Through Next Week

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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
Former Fellow

Ricardo Arduengo/AP

June 21, 2023

La Temporada de Peligros climáticos está aquí. ¿Qué puede significar esto para Puerto Rico?

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Tina Fineberg/AP

June 15, 2023

It’s Danger Season and Workers Need Heat Safety Protections Now—UPS Knows It

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

Two people push a cart through a river in Balochistan, Pakistan, after intense flooding in 2022

Kafeel Ahmed/Pexels

June 13, 2023

A Year After the Deadly Pakistan Floods Began, Hard Lessons About Climate Loss and Damage

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Flood waters surround a modest-looking white house with a detached garage behind it. The water has submerged what you could assume is a driveway, a front porch or steps, and the front and side yards.

FEMA

June 7, 2023

Worsening Risks of Climate Change Expose the Need for—and Hard Limits of—Property Insurance

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Kari Greer/US Forest Service

May 22, 2023

Western Wildfires are Burning Through Local and State Budgets

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

Fire consumes a forest of pine trees, and smoke fills the air during the 2013 Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park

Mike Lewelling, National Park Service/Flickr

May 11, 2023

As Danger Season Begins, Congress Must Pass Stronger Wildfire Policies

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Firefighter battling 2020 El Dorado Fire, California.

San Bernardino County Fire/Wikimedia Commons

May 2, 2023

In a Changing Climate, What Does a “Normal” Year of Wildfires Look Like?

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

aerial photo of a flooded farm; water is up to the sides of a farmhouse and silo, and a road next to the house is submerged

Iowa DOT

April 5, 2023

Will Climate Change Force More Farmworkers to Go Hungry?

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

Kentucky National Guard

March 16, 2023

NOAA’s Spring Outlook Points to a Risky Season

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Gob. de la Cuidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires/CC-BY 2.5 AR

March 2, 2023

“Temporada de peligro” en Sudamérica: El cambio climático rompe los récords de calor en la región

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

Gob. de la Cuidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires/CC-BY 2.5 AR

February 23, 2023

Danger Season in South America: Climate Change Brings Unbelievable Record Heat

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

U.S. Air National Guard Senior Airman Jesse Hanson/Flickr

January 10, 2023

Climate Change in 2022: Multiple Billion-Dollar Disasters and Unbearable Human Costs

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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

photo of a vineyard worker wearing a cowboy hat drinking water from the tap of a large yellow water jug

AP Photo/Lianne Milton, Napa Valley Register

November 30, 2022

This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

Black Rock Solar/Flickr CC by 2.0

November 3, 2022

These 5 Communities’ Resilience Helped Them Withstand Danger Season 2022

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

AP Photo/John Locher, File

September 21, 2022

Summer of 2022 Was a Hot One. What Was Climate Change’s Impact on Heat?

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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

Silhouettes of people overlooking San Francisco after wildfires turned the sky an eerie orange in 2020

Patrick Perkins/Unsplash

September 15, 2022

Inequitable Health Impacts from Wildfire Smoke Increased by Danger Season

UCS Science Network

NASA

August 24, 2022

Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

iStockphoto.com/Pleasureofart

August 22, 2022

Four Months into Danger Season, Here’s the Tally of Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire Weather Events

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
Former Contributor

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