Naema Ahmed

California’s impressive wildflower bloom comes after massive amounts of precipitation drenched much of the state in recent months.

• Hidden Planet

Warmer-than-average temperatures across the continent’s northernmost tip began creeping in during November, lasting through February. By then, several glaciers were nearly or completely free of snow.

• Climate Lab

The split shows that much of the South, and rural America, could ditch fossil fuels easier than big cities and the coasts.

• Climate Lab

Chicken or tuna? Tofu or lentils? Rice or potatoes? See which food is better for the planet.

• Environment

Ranking as the fifth- or sixth-warmest year on record, the world experienced unrelenting waves of extreme weather.

• Climate Lab

These scenarios help show us what needs to be done — and what we can still do.

• Extreme Summer

Explore fifty years of weather data to see how much hotter this summer was in your county.

Explore our zip code level extreme heat map of the United States to see how heat waves and dangerous temperatures will affect your city in the coming years.

See how some of the high temperature records set in Europe in July would translate to cities in the United States.