All climate resources
Report
Accelerating US Leadership in Electric Vehicles
Financial incentives for electric vehicles boost sales and decrease costs, benefiting consumers and industry.
Explainer
Energy and Water Use
Energy and water use are closely intertwined. Conventional power plants generate power by boiling water to produce steam that spins huge electricity-generating turbines.
Explainer
How Does the Sun Affect Our Climate?
Learn how the sun affects our climate in this primer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Explainer
Why Does CO2 get more attention than other gases?
Climate change is primarily a problem of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Podcast
Living with Rising Seas: Stories from Chronically Flooded Communities
Scientist and climate advocate Nicole Hernandez Hammer and Pulitzer-prize nominated journalist Derrick Z. Jackson talk about what they are seeing on the ground in chronically flooded coastal communities.
Explainer
The Ozone Hole and Global Warming
Information about the ozone hole and global warming. The ozone hole is not a mechanism of global warming, but both the ozone hole and global warming are caused by human activities.
Video
When Rising Seas Hit Home
The seas are rising. What does that mean for communities and homeowners?
Report
When Rising Seas Hit Home
There comes a threshold of chronic flooding that makes normal routines impossible and forces communities to make difficult, often costly choices.
Podcast
When Rising Seas Hit Home: What Coastal Communities Can Expect, and When to Expect It
Startling new research on sea level rise and the hard choices ahead for coastal communities.
Case Study
Protecting New Jersey From Sea Level Rise: The Future of the Meadowlands
The Meadowlands were the salvation for several cities and towns in New Jersey during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.
Case Study
Historic Communities Face New Challenges as Sea Levels Rise along the South Carolina Coast
The effects of sea level rise are appearing so fast in Charleston, South Carolina, that the city’s sustainability project manager says most people have no time to holler from one side of the climate change political divide to the other:
Case Study
Sea Level Rise Threatens Cape May, New Jersey, and Its Vulnerable Visitors
A drop in bird populations may spell trouble for the area's economy as fewer tourists come to Cape May to witness the bird migrations.