As dangers rise, we must slow global warming
We plan our lives around the seasons — and the weather patterns we’ve come to expect.
But a hotter atmosphere is upending those patterns: Air and ocean currents are shifting, while more evaporation fuels disastrous deluges in some areas and drier droughts in others.
That means more intense hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires and floods.
Yet we can still turn this around by slashing carbon and methane pollution and tapping nature’s unsung solutions.
Our world in extreme weather
Resources
Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on extreme weather.
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EU must act to protect farms and food production from climate risk
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Climate change and your mental health
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The Meaning of PR100 for the communities of Puerto Rico
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Why are cherry blossoms early…again?
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33 Virginia Localities are Awarded $53.9 Million to Build Flood Resilience, but Future Funding is at Risk
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How the U.S. Supreme Court put the nation’s wetlands at risk
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Our extreme weather experts
We bring wide-ranging perspectives and skills to our work on extreme weather. Meet a few of the people driving this work.
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Kate Boicourt
Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds
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Eric Holst
Associate Vice President, Natural Climate Solutions
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Carolyn Kousky
Associate Vice President, Economics and Policy Analysis
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Fiona Lo
Climate Scientist
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Will McDow
Senior Director, Climate Resilient Watersheds
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Ilissa Ocko
Senior Climate Scientist II, Barbra Streisand Chair of Environmental Studies
Media contact
Cecile Brown
(202) 271-6534 (office)