Danger Season

Construction worker Felipe Campuzano pours water on his face to cool off as he digs a sanitation pipe ditch during a heatwave on August 4, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mark Makela/Getty Images

May 23, 2024

Danger Season 2024: It’s Already Started

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

California wildfire with transmission lines

Rawpixel.com

May 23, 2024

Wildfires and Power Grid Failures Continue to Fuel Each Other

Paul Arbaje
Senior Analyst

Scott Olson/Getty Images

March 7, 2024

Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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

USAF/Senior Airman Damon Kasberg

September 21, 2023

Summer 2023 Is a Wrap: It Showed Us the Inequities of Keeping Cool in Killer Heat

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Gas plant in California with pipeline in foreground

John Ciccarelli/BLM

September 13, 2023

Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How.

Paul Arbaje
Senior Analyst

Spc. Ana-Grace Catoe, South Carolina National Guard

September 11, 2023

New Maps Show Inequitable Geography of Danger Season

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Alex Levine/Flickr

September 7, 2023

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

Guest Commentary

from below, a five-pointed star shape is made up from a diverse group of five people extending two fingers each. the image suggests unity.

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August 30, 2023

Boston-Area Communities Work Together to Beat the Heat

UCS Science Network

Wikimedia Commons

August 30, 2023

A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

Against a backdrop of an orange sky, a group of construction workers in silhouette are standing near a fence

wal_172619/Pixabay

August 23, 2023

Danger Season’s Extreme Heat Is Melting Records: Here Are 3 Things Congress Should Do Now

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

UCS

August 22, 2023

Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

A municipal parking lot in the town of Hampton, NH, is completely flooded, with several buildings nearby whose foundations are obscured by flooding.

Roger Stephenson/UCS

August 22, 2023

Climate—and a Cautionary Tale of Three New Hampshire Commissioners

Roger Stephenson
Former Contributor

Against a bright blue sky, a power plant emits clouds of white smoke

cwizner/Pixabay

July 31, 2023

Danger Season Underscores Need for Strong EPA Power Plant Carbon Standards

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

National Park Service

July 27, 2023

Danger Season and Deadly Heat Mean National Parks Are No Longer a Summer Respite

Astrid Caldas
Former Contributer

U.S. Air National Guard/Senior Master Sgt. Michael Davis

July 20, 2023

No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Roger Stephenson
Former Contributor

US Army National Guard/Sgt. Denis Nunez

July 19, 2023

Yes, Climate Change Worsened that Heatwave, Flood, Wildfire. Yes, Fossil Fuels are the Root Cause. Policymakers, Please Act and Stop the Madness.

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

photo of faceless farmworkers in a strawberry field; some are bent over picking and others are carrying fully loaded crates on their shoulders

Lance Cheung/USDA

July 18, 2023

Poll Shows Strong Support for a Food and Farm Bill that Protects Workers

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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
Former Fellow

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