Skip to main content
Home
Signals
View all Signals
Learn how long-term climate trends are linked to new extremes.
More
Drought icon
Drought
More
Fire icon
Fires
More
Earth systems icon
Earth Systems
More
Floods icon
Floods
More
Heat icon
Heat
More
Hurricanes icon
Hurricanes
More
Resource Hub
All Resources
More
Events
A database of events and their links to climate change.
More
Headlines
Climate change impact stories in the news.
More
Real Time Data
A searchable gallery of climate change monitors relaying real-time data.
More
Science Sources
A searchable database of climate science reports.
More
Attribution
What is climate attribution?
Climate change attribution tells us how much of the credit or risk for a trend or event should go to human-caused climate change.
More
Report: Fingerprints Everywhere 2018
Studies since the 1990s show human-caused climate change directly influenced many recent trends and events.
More
Attribution science database
An updating database of studies that find the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on observed trends and events.
More
 
Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time

Search Climate Signals

Open Filters    +Close Filters    -


Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record

headline
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
Jonathan Watts
08/21/2018

Exclusive: Some Arctic Ground No Longer Freezing—Even in Winter

headline
Nikita Zimov was teaching students to do ecological fieldwork in northern Siberia when he stumbled on a disturbing clue that the frozen land might be thawing far faster than expected.
Craig Welch
08/20/2018

Exclusive: Some Arctic Ground No Longer Freezing—Even in Winter

headline
Nikita Zimov was teaching students to do ecological fieldwork in northern Siberia when he stumbled on a disturbing clue that the frozen land might be thawing far faster than expected.
Craig Welch
08/20/2018

Summer weather is getting 'stuck' due to Arctic warming

headline
Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arc
Jonathan Watts
08/20/2018

Climate Change Is Becoming a Top Threat to Biodiversity

headline
Climate change will be the fastest-growing cause of species loss in the Americas by midcentury, according to a new set of reports from the leading global organization on ecosystems and biodiversity.
Chelsea Harvey
03/28/2018

Climate Change Is Cooking the Oceans

headline
A new paper in Nature shows how marine heat waves have become more common and intense in recent decades, largely due to climate change....
Brian Kahn
08/15/2018

Great, Now Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Crossing the Atlantic

headline
The western half of North America has turned into a funeral pyre for forests. We’ve heard a lot about California recently, but British Columbia is also in serious trouble.
Brian Kahn
08/14/2018

Climate change, global travel key to tick diseases in New York, experts says

headline
Climate change, globalization and evolution helped ignite the historic spread of dangerous ticks across the Hudson Valley.That striking analysis came from Cornell University Entomologist Laura Harrington.
David Robinson
08/13/2018

Northeast Floods Prompt More Rescues, Emergency Declaration in New York

headline
Heavy rainfall caused new rounds of flooding in the Northeast Monday night and Tuesday morning, and in upstate New York, the situation worsened as numerous vehicles were swept into floodwaters.
Sean Breslin
08/14/2018

Black widow spiders are heading north due to climate change

headline
As climate change warms the earth, black widow spiders are moving north.The spiders are notorious, because venom is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s. A bite can cause aches, pains, and paralysis of the diaphragm which make breathing difficult. 
Abbey Interrante
08/11/2018
  • Load More
  • Climate Signals
  • All Signals
  • Earth Systems
  • Heat
  • Drought
  • Fires
  • Hurricanes
  • Floods
  • Resource Hub
  • Events
  • Headlines
  • Climate Science
  • Real Time Data
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Related Sites
  • Site built by 89up