NC State’s North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies is lending a helping hand to business and infrastructure with climate data.

Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.

Extreme Precipitation Meets Historic Infrastructure

Or: How the 2020s broke our brains

Hear me out.

Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not...

Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

By Mark Essig A black globe thermometer (center) and a humidity and temperature probe (left) at the NC State Climate Office’s ECONet station at Jockeys Ridge State Park. Photo courtesy of the North…

Innovation in Alberta, Canadian wildfire season, and why smaller countries matter when it comes to climate change

The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

This Is Not An Essay

As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...