What is Climate Change

We know it’s happening, and we know why: carbon pollution from fossil fuels is warming our planet and throwing natural systems out of balance.

Learn the basic science of climate change in 24 easy steps.

Global warming could do more than just melt polar ice. It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands.

The answer includes Benjamin Franklin, Mutiny on the Bounty and centuries of records.

Children born in 2012 haven’t lived a single day unaffected by climate change.

A new interactive map from researchers at the University of Maryland shows how cities might be transformed by climate change.

Life in Southern California, once as mild and predictable as the weather, is being transformed as the climate grows hotter, drier and in some regions windier, fueling more intense wildfires, deadly mudslides and prolonged extreme drought.

Over the past two decades, the 2 degrees Celsius number has emerged as a critical threshold for global warming. In the 2015 Paris accord, international leaders agreed that the world should act urgently to keep the Earth’s average temperature increases “well below” 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2100 to avoid a host of catastrophic changes.

From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable.

Don't get climate change? Watch an animation explaining the phenomenon as a 12-year-old would

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