Tag Archive for "Danger Season" - Union of Concerned Scientists

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 UCS 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 UCS 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

A pastoral scene of some hay bales and a scrubby tree against a flat field, with an ominous looking tornado-like cloud gathering overhead.

Raychel Sanner/Pexels

June 16, 2022

What Danger Season Looks Like in the Midwest

Rachel Licker
Former UCS Staff

UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo

June 6, 2022

Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

USAF/Senior Airman Damon Kasberg

June 6, 2022

We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

European Space Agency/CC by 2.0

May 27, 2022

Prepare for Another Dangerous Hurricane Season Predicted for 2022

Astrid Caldas
Former Contributer

National Interagency Fire Center/Flickr

March 24, 2022

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

Carly Phillips
Senior Scientist

A vineyard worker gets a drink from a cooler during a break from the heat as the temperature exceeded 100 degrees in California.

AP Photo/Napa Valley Register, Lianne Milton

March 21, 2022

Central Valley Farmworkers: Surviving Extreme Heat While Feeding the US

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

Unsplash/Scott Blake

August 24, 2021

Extreme Heat is a Threat to Midwestern Outdoor Workers

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

Lance Cheung/USDA

August 20, 2021

New UCS Climate Analysis Too Hot to Work Shows Mounting Risks to Outdoor Workers from Heat Extremes

Rachel Licker
Former UCS Staff