Energy & Science
U.S. EPA Issues First Climate Data Update Since 2016
A new interactive has 54 different metrics showing how the world is changing, allowing Americans to prepare.
Firefighters battle the CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz County, California in 2020.
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In the five years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last updated its climate-science scorecard, the world has seen five of the six hottest years on record and California has endured three of its five most destructive wildfires. The number of heatwaves tripled in the last decade from two a year on average in the 1960s.
The agency today published new data that shows in greater detail than previous updates how global warming is affecting the U.S.