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Ticks, mosquitoes, and human health

…show up in this country? In the United States, reported cases of human diseases caused by infected ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas tripled from 2004 to 2016. This increase is fueled by many factors, including climate-change related increases in rainfall, temperature, and extreme weather events that have enhanced the abundance disease-spreading vectors. Other shifts—in human land…

Climate change

…weather-related events, such as tropical storms, floods, droughts, and forest fires. Climate change will continue for many decades to come. Even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped today, global temperatures would continue to rise and weather-related extremes would continue, as long-lasting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to have their disruptive effects. Climate is a system….

Climate plan solutions

…a genuine need for investment in the research to identify the nature and scope of these opportunities. If, for example, warmer weather results in a longer frost-free season, how can crop selection and management be optimized to exploit that change? If extreme events (precipitation) are more likely, can alternate practices, such as cover crops be…

Drought and climate change

Drought.gov is a federal site featuring data, maps, tools, and other resources, including the U.S. Drought Monitor, a map that shows the location and intensity of drought across the country, updated weekly. Climate Central Extreme Weather Toolkit: Drought Top Line Human-caused global warming is increasing drought risk across much of the United States as rising…

Vector-borne diseases in the United States

…by many factors, including changes in rainfall, temperature, and extreme weather events that have enhanced the abundance or distribution of insects and ticks—in many cases the result of climate change. Changes in land use, human settlement, and outdoor activity patterns have also led to more contact between people and disease-spreading organisms. The result is a…

Wildfires and climate change

Climate Central Extreme Weather Toolkit: Wildfires SciLine Fact Sheet: Wildfire Trends in the United States Top Line Human-caused climate change is a significant contributor to the increasing size and intensity of, and damage from, western U.S. wildfires. Facts for Any Story In the western United States human-caused climate change caused more than half the increase…

Climate Communication / SciLine Quick Facts

Climate Communication and SciLine collaboratively created a series of condensed Quick Facts on climate change and extreme weather-related events, and their impacts on society. Journalists are free to use these facts—all validated by outside experts—in their stories….

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