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🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

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This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Shelton Johnson Calls” by Amuri Morris.
Year and Medium: 2021, oil paint
This piece reflects Shelton Johnson’s life mission to encourage Black people to reconnect with the natural world. People of disadvantaged groups need to be invited into the space of imagining what a just world is so we can begin to craft it, ensuring positive interactions between different groups of people and their environment. As catalysts for change, we have to look towards ways to include disadvantaged groups in the conversation for planetary change and to foster positive relations between all groups of people.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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We may go 'brrrr' but the number of days below freezing per year does important work behind the scenes, such as influencing pest control, seed germination rates, soil health, snowpack depth, and fire risk. These map layers in the 5th National Climate Assessment's Interactive Atlas...(1/3)
February 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Can global warming increase snowfall? Greater evaporation from warming oceans increases atmospheric water vapor. More water vapor increases total precipitation during many kinds of storms, including winter storms. Read our newest feature story for more. Link in comments.
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Thanks for your support, Vincent! #ClimateForUs
February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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It’s time for our annual reminder that, yes, you can have winter storms, record snowfall, and extreme cold even with global warming. Winter is getting warmer, but not so warm that snow and ice storms aren’t still possible. Are you surprised? Read our new article for more info. Link in comments.
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Stream Of Consciousness” by Spencer Frazer.
Year and Medium: 2020, oil on canvas
My painting depicts the results of human impact on nature and has us question what is and will be. The work bridges the literal and the imaginative, informed by Northwest Indigenous art, as well as that of other traditions. One of the underlying principles of the work is to create pieces where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Often in the background I use written language for viewers to decipher and interpret. I am fascinated by how the mind searches to recognize the familiar
January 30, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Global warming doesn't mean "no winter". In many places, winters could warm 10, 20, or even 30°F and it would still snow. Natural climate patterns and random variability will still lead to winters that are unusually cold and snowy in some places—even as the planet overall warms. #ClimateClarity
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Looking for a way to support climate science in these uncertain times? Climate.us is building our science panel. Use our QR code to sign up! #ClimateForUs
Joining our science panel is a small, flexible commitment. What you might be asked to do: review a story or provide a quote, identify important papers or topics we should cover, answer a question sent to us by a reader, wrangle some data for a graphic we want to make, connect us with another expert What we can offer in return: an outlet for publicizing your work, graphics and data visualization for your own use, editorial support (copyediting, proofreading), data visualization training/consultation, a chance to do something concrete to protect science Climate.us: Carrying on the mission of Climate.gov, independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
January 28, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Thanks, Therese! We’re grateful for supporters like you.#ClimateForUs
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Our project director Rebecca Lindsey features in a new TIME story, “The Women Saving America’s Climate Data.” The article features our efforts to save content created on behalf of NOAA and the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
You can access the full article through Climate.us "In the Press" page.
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Structure Failure on O‘ahu in the Global Warming Era” by J. Matt.
Year and Medium: 2022, photography
The Ke Nui structure failure illustrates the complexity of coastal climate politics. The owners are native Hawaiians who have kept the building in the family for five generations — descendants of a thriving kingdom overthrown under threat of U.S. arms. Receding coastlines will force reckoning with not only issues of historical Indigenous exploitations and wealth concentration but also community, individual, and states’ rights pertaining to physically indefensible coastal private property. Without a coastal action plan, property owners in Hawai‘i rely on illegal courses of action when responding to catastrophes such as this one.
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Atmospheric rivers drenched California in December 2025, with one storm bringing snow to the mountains. These Sentinel-2 satellite images show the transformation of Lassen Volcanic National Park between December 14 and 29. Read the feature story at Climate.us.
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Thanks, Dan, for your support! #ClimateForUs
January 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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A year ago, Southern California was parched. Now, it’s soaked, thanks to atmospheric rivers. This animation shows GOES satellite images from dawn to dusk on December 31, 2025, as an atmospheric river (right of bottom center of the frame) feeds a storm. Read the feature story at Climate.us.
January 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “News Stream VI - Reflections” by Taina Litwak.
Year and Medium: 2022, acrylic and newspaper collage on canvas
In January 2020 I began a series of paintings in acrylic and collaged newspaper. In this painting, I use deciduous forests, and their annual leaf fall, to document issues of the climate change and environmental damage we are causing. Each cut and painted leaf is a flash of content, a voice demanding our attention, only to drift away and be replaced by the next days’ urgent headlines, an unending stream. The stone below, slow to change, is juxtaposed against the transparent fluidity of the water and evanescent character of the leaves/bites of information.
January 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Last year, California had one of its driest wet seasons on record, fueling devastating wildfires around Los Angeles. This year saw the wettest start to the water year in southern California in over 20 years, driven by 'atmospheric rivers' like this one. Link to article in comments. #ClimateForUs
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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E&E by Politico gave a shoutout to Climate.us in a feature on the challenges of rescuing canceled climate data.
See this and other stories at www.climate.us#press.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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We’re touched by the support and happy to be a phoenix!
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January 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Thanks for your support as we head into the new year! We have reached our crowdsourcing goal of $200K. #ClimateForUs
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Drift Ice” by Deborah Pressman. Year and Medium: 2020, ink, oil sticks on paper
How to depict glaciers and ice floes? I form large pieces of paper into topographic representations of landscapes. The tactile features of the work change the perception of the image from flat representation to a semi-sculptural form. The polar regions are the most fragile and consequential for climate change and so far from population centers. Creating images that viewers can almost touch, that gives them a sense of the land, might help to foster shared responsibility for these fragile, vital areas.
January 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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As a fellow scientist, this work is imperative for us to maintain scientific growth and education. I couldn’t be more proud of the work that is being done here. —Bez
Your work is so important and inspirational to scientists across fields of research! —Barbara Anderson-Thomas
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January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Polar Melt” by Phyllis Ewen. Year and Medium: 2021, scanned weather charts, mixed media
In Polar Melt, I scanned charts and weather maps, altered them, and printed them digitally. These prints are then cut and reassembled to form imagined waterscapes that highlight the changing nature of our seas: rising waters and melting glaciers, the effects of global warming and human intervention. Although maps imply a viewer looking down at the landscape, I hope that the dimensional qualities of my images allow us to imagine ourselves within it and to inhabit the seas as another way of understanding.
January 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Every day, we hear from people who refuse to let climate facts be erased.
Educators, researchers, and supporters like Dan, Marnie, and Therese remind us why this work matters — for our children, our communities, and our planet.

Join us. Stay informed. Speak up.
Words from Dan Huffman: "Congratulations & BRAVO to your organization. I enjoyed two decades of teaching science & find your efforts on behalf of climate science inspiring. The current admin would like nothing better than info about climate change to go away. Well, just like the planet's actual climate changes, your efforts will allow school children & young adults learning about the climate to NOT go away so they can remain current about climate change science. I wish you continued success." 2 testimonials "Thank you for all the work you are doing & now persevering in. We appreciate it where the climate changes feel so evident." - Marnie Cobbs "I have so much gratitude for the 100s of scientists, federal employees, & consultants for the work they've invested year after year in making climate science meaningful for the average American. As horrific as the current regime's erasure is, I am investing in Climate.us so that their work continue to reach people." - Therese
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Rivers Feed the Trees #467” by Meredith Nemirov. Year and Medium: 2022, acrylic on historic topographic map
Rivers Feed the Trees is a series of works on historic maps where blue is painted into the topography to create an abundance of rivers and streams. Since the turn of the 21st century, Colorado has experienced periods of extreme drought. This inspired me to create works where I imagine a CO with no drought. I hope these images will encourage people to learn more about where our water comes from and to look for solutions to the dire situation we are facing regarding the future of our water.
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM