Summary: With a changing climate threatening assets in the Great Lakes, local experts formed a boundary organization to bridge the gap between scientists and decision makers.

Published : . July 2019. This analysis shows the rapid, widespread increases in extreme heat that are projected to occur across the country due to climate change, including conditions ...

Dr. Haiyan Teng explains why the moisture in the ground you walk across may have important consequences for the summertime climate.

Published : . May 2016. A number of utilities across the country participating in the Department of Energy's Partnership for Energy Sector Climate Resilience have completed climate ch ...

Summary: View and download maps displaying drought indicators for the contiguous United States from 2003 to the present, as well as the underlying data.

Summary: Use this web app to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of earth science remote sensing data.

With specially designed sensors mounted on their own cars, volunteers in each city will drive pre-planned routes, recording heat and humidity as they go. Scientists will stitch their results into a detailed map showing the hottest parts of each city. 

Observed water levels in Lake Michigan between 1970 and 2019. The light blue dots depict lake-wide monthly averages, the dark blue line depicts lake-wide annual averages, and the red line depicts the ...

From extreme heat to infectious diseases, the impacts of human-caused global warming are a threat to human lives. According to the latest National Climate Assessment,  thousands of lives could be saved in the U.S. by reducing greenhouse gases and improving resilience to climate change.

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.