Stories by Climate Central

El Niño conditions are still trying to form in the Pacific Ocean

Local ownership gives tropical forests a boost in sequestering CO2

For Obama's Clean Power Plan to work, the amount of methane leaking from the nation's natural gas infrastructure must be capped

The bloom that poisoned Toledo's waters may become more common as the waters of the Great Lakes warm

Roughly two-thirds of the Golden State is now in exceptional drought

We are among the least energy efficient of the world's largest economies

The heat was driven by hot ocean surface temperatures

Factors such as development, population growth and globalization are likely to blame, but the report suggests that we have learned from past disasters

The statewide average temperature for the first six months of 2014 was 1.1 degree F warmer than it has been for the past 120 years of records

Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity

Type in your city name and see what temperatures there will be in 2100 if current emissions trends continue

Atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas, which helps drive global warming, haven’t been this high in somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years

A map released by the National Climatic Data Center shows when the warmest day of the year typically occurs, most likely in July or later

The Lone Star State might have set a national record for a state's wind power production, too

A new satellite image beautifully highlights the Earth forming a perfect crescent as the midnight sun beams down on the far northern reaches of the globe

Refrozen meltwater causes sinuous layers of ice to build up beneath the flat expanse of the Greenland Ice Sheet

The past 12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history, where average temperature has warmed by 1.6-degrees F since 1910

Railroads could see more sun kinks if climate change-related heat waves become more severe and more frequent

Bigger ocean waves might be more common nowadays as climate change alters wind patterns

In just a few days last week, some areas in Bosnia and Serbia received an amount of rain equivalent to one third of their annual total

The state got no rain relief during the December–March wet season, according to a new national drought report

Seasonal sea ice projections for this summer could be improved by including measurements of pools of water that collect on top of sea ice as it melts

A bloom of new jellyfish observed off the coast of Italy has turned out to be a previously undescribed species, likely involuntarily introduced by humans

New research indicates that climate change has triggered an unstoppable decay of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, eventually leading to at least three meters of global sea level rise