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# Climate impacts

Posts in this archive: 44

- [As energy costs rise, Pacific people look to the sun](https://350.org/as-energy-costs-rise-pacific-people-look-to-the-sun/) — What the just transition looks like to a solar energy technician
- [El Niño 2026: what’s happening?](https://350.org/el-nino-2026-whats-happening/) — Scientists are now warning that a massive El Niño, the periodic warming phenomenon, is forming in the Pacific and it could rival or surpass the previous worst ones on record.
- [Out of Pocket: the real cost of fossil fuels on our health and healthcare systems](https://350.org/out-of-pocket-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-health-and-healthcare-systems/) — What if the system designed to heal us is also quietly contributing to what makes us sick? It sounds contradictory, but it’s true.
- [5 ways to stay cool in a heatwave](https://350.org/5-ways-to-stay-cool-in-heatwaves2025/) — Heatwaves are a health risk and many folks can find it very difficult to keep their homes and bodies from overheating. Here are some tips to stay cool and what to do if you end up getting too hot.
- [Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums - the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills](https://350.org/out-of-pocket-pollution-premiums-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-insurance-bills/) — Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
- [Out of Pocket: the real cost of fossil fuels on our groceries](https://350.org/out-of-pocket-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-groceries/) — How we are all paying to keep our food systems hooked on fossil fuels
- [Out of Pocket: the real cost of fossil fuels on our water](https://350.org/out-of-pocket-cost-of-fossil-fuels-water/) — How fossil fuels are making water less reliable, less safe, and more expensive for all of us.
- [Twenty years later, we are yet to learn the lessons of Katrina](https://350.org/twenty-years-later-we-are-yet-to-learn-the-lessons-of-katrina/) — On Hurricane's Katrina’s 20th anniversary, let us looks at how a storm became a symbol of climate injustice and why the fight is even more urgent today.
- [Climate neglect is destroying entire cities in Brazil](https://350.org/climate-neglect-is-destroying-entire-cities-in-brazil/) — The bleak scenario in a state devastated by extreme rains brings a reminder to the world: acting now will be much easier and cheaper than when the worst impacts of the climate crisis arrive
- [What Baltimore Teaches Us about Why Utility Rate Hikes are a Climate Justice Issue](https://350.org/baltimore-gas-and-electric/)
- [What we can Learn from Maui about Decolonizing Wildfire Response](https://350.org/maui-decolonizing-wildfire-response/) — The death toll from the Maui wildfires is still climbing, but already real estate interests are wondering how they can profit. This is climate change at its clearest and most vicious: forever tied to capitalism, colonialism, and extraction over people.
- [Another summer of broken heat records. But we know what we need to do.](https://350.org/another-summer-of-broken-heat-records-but-we-know-what-we-need-to-do/) — Broken heat records have become the new norm in Europe and across the world. But there’s a movement fighting back - pointing the finger squarely at those who are to blame and making them pay for our switch to clean energy for all.
- [Fossil Fuels Did This: Drought](https://350.org/fossil-fuels-did-this-drought/) — Water is a human right, but millions of people see drought, exacerbated by fossil-fueled climate change, threaten this right. We connect the dots between the burning of coal, oil and fossil gas with water scarcity.
- [Italy’s 100-year floods are the climate crisis in action – here’s how to help:](https://350.org/italys-100-year-floods-are-the-climate-crisis-in-action-heres-how-to-help/) — 6 months worth of rain has fallen in 36 hours in Italy, and now the region of Emilia-Romagna are experiencing devastating floods. We need to take climate action - but right now the people of Emilia-Romagna need urgent support.  Here's how you can help.
- [Fossil Fuels Did This: Tropical Cyclones](https://350.org/fossil-fuels-did-this-tropical-cyclones/) — We believe that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. Today, we talk about one of the most jawdropping displays of power nature has in store: tropical cyclones
- [Fossil Fuels Did This: Heatwaves](https://350.org/fossil-fuels-did-this-heatwaves/) — We believe that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. Today, we look at the insidious, silent killer of the climate crisis: heatwaves.
- [Winter Heatwaves in Europe and Blizzards in North America Underline the Need for Urgent Climate Solutions](https://350.org/winter-heatwaves-in-europe-and-blizzards-in-north-america-underline-the-need-for-urgent-climate-solutions/) — Fossil-fuel induced global warming will only increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events unless we make a swift, just transition to a renewable energy charged global economy.
- [The UK heatwaves in the summer of 2022](https://350.org/the-uk-heatwaves-in-the-summer-of-2022/) — In the summer of 2022, the UK experienced one of its worst ever heatwaves. The Met Office issued its first red warning for extreme heat, and the country's highest ever temperature was recorded (40.3 °C) on 19 July. Infrastructure was affected - with train tracks buckling and roads melting - and the NHS saw an increase in heat-related illness and death.
- [My Country Pakistan Is Drowning](https://350.org/my-country-pakistan-is-drowning/) — As I write this, my country is drowning. In the past two weeks, Pakistan experienced cataclysmic floods triggered by unprecedented monsoon and glacial melting, killing over a thousand people and many more injured, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and millions of acres of crops, and causing billions of dollars in damage.
- [Bangladesh and India facing the worst flood in 122 years](https://350.org/bangladesh-and-india-facing-the-worst-flood-in-122-years/) — The unpredictable floods in South Asia point to changes in patterns and extreme weather events that are becoming the norm. The monsoon shift has caused extreme precipitation resulting in floods in many cities, which caused the death toll of 105 people while displacing 7.2 million people.
- [Heatwaves in South Asia are a wakeup call to immediately limit greenhouse gas emissions everywhere](https://350.org/heatwaves-in-south-asia-are-a-wakeup-call/) — The heat waves raging through South Asia are what a climate crisis looks like. The record-breaking temperatures have led to electricity and water shortages and affected the poorest sections of the society who have done the least to cause this crisis.
- [Five things we learnt from the IPCC climate impacts report](https://350.org/five-things-we-learnt-from-the-ipcc-climate-impacts-report/) — The latest UN climate report paints a bleak picture, but it also offers a way forward. This is the decade that we can and need to change things.
- [Complaint filed against JICA for concealing information in the US Stock Market](https://350.org/complaint-filed-against-jica-for-concealing-information-in-the-us-stock-market/) — This complaint marks the first time a governmental organization has been targeted by a whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC.
- [Cyclone Yaas leaves behind a trail of destruction in India and Bangladesh](https://350.org/cyclone-yaas-leaves-behind-a-trail-of-destruction-in-india-and-bangladesh/) — Another week, another cyclone makes landfall in South Asia. This time on the east coast in India’s Odisha state, but inflicting damage in Bangladesh as well.
- [The driving force of Cyclone Tauktae: Warming of the Arabian Sea](https://350.org/the-driving-force-of-cyclone-tauktae-warming-of-the-arabian-sea/) — As the Arabian sea continues to warm due to increased carbon emissions, cyclones like Tauktae will become the new normal.
- [Dangerous narratives and climate migration](https://350.org/dangerous-narratives-and-climate-migration/) — Why the climate movement has been telling the wrong story and how to make it right.
- [In Photos: Floods displace millions in South Asia](https://350.org/floods-displace-millions-in-south-asia/) — Home to the one-fourth of the world’s population, South Asia is reeling from the effects of climate impacts as massive floods have displaced more than 9.6 million people. This, in the midst of the pandemic, has left affected communities with an uncertain future.
- [Bangladesh needs a Just Recovery to Recover from Climate Impacts](https://350.org/bangladesh-needs-a-just-recovery/) — Massive floods in Bangladesh shows the inequality of the climate crisis and the need for a Just Recovery to build a better future.
- [International Mountain Day: Third Pole in Crisis](https://350.org/international-mountain-day-third-pole-in-crisis/) — This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of.
- [India’s heatwave season is becoming deadlier every year](https://350.org/indias-heatwave-season-is-becoming-deadlier-every-year/) — Heatwaves have become increasingly frequent in India over the last few years. 2018 was the sixth warmest year since record-keeping began in 1901 and 11 of the 15 warmest years have occurred since 2004.
- [Women and waves: Oceans Day from the world’s largest ocean](https://350.org/women-and-waves-oceans-day-from-the-worlds-largest-ocean/) — On this World Oceans Day, we're honoring the many complex and inspiring roles that women play in ocean spaces.
- [Puerto Rico One Year Later: We’re Fighting for Justice and Prosperity](https://350.org/puerto-rico-one-year-later-were-fighting-for-justice-and-prosperity/) — It has been a year since the impact of Maria. Here in Puerto Rico, there are still families living in the dark, homes without a roof, people who haven’t been able to find a new job after their businesses were destroyed, and people mourning their lost loved ones. This is climate injustice in action.
- [The New California Normal: Overcoming Wildfires, Collaborating on Climate Solutions](https://350.org/the-new-california-normal-overcoming-wildfires-collaborating-on-climate-solutions/) — by Jack Eidt
- [California Wildfires and Fighting Climate Change](https://350.org/california-wildfires-and-fighting-climate-change/) — Tim Boeve is a Reverend, a long-time Sonoma County climate organizer, and the father of 350's Executive Director May Boeve. He lives in the middle of the fire-struck region of Northern California and contributed this guest blog.
- [The planet on high alert](https://350.org/the-planet-on-alert/) — How climate change can unite us, beyond political, territorial, race or belief barriers
- [Hurricane Harvey: An Unnatural Disaster](https://350.org/hurricane-harvey-an-unnatural-disaster/) — This is precisely the time to be talking about climate change, and how Trump's climate denial shaped the disaster.
- [World Refugee Day: Migrants and the Climate Crisis](https://350.org/world-refugee-day-migrants-and-the-climate-crisis/) — 65.6 million. That is the number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, fleeing due to persecution, conflict, violence, environmental disasters, and human rights violations.
- [What the World Humanitarian Summit means for Climate Change](https://350.org/what-the-world-humanitarian-summit-means-for-climate-change/)
- [Pacific Climate Warriors join People’s Pilgrimage](https://350.org/pacific-climate-warriors-join-peoples-pilgrimage/)
- [You still don’t know it, but you are against fracking](https://350.org/you-still-dont-know-it-but-you-are-against-fracking/)
- [Update from 350 Vanuatu as Cyclone Pam bears down](https://350.org/update-from-350-vanuatu-as-cyclone-pam-bears-down/)
- [Hundred-year Balkan floods: a report from the ground](https://350.org/hundred-year-balkan-floods-a-report-from-the-ground/)
- [Climate Impacts: Australia’s ‘Angry Summer’](https://350.org/climate-impacts-australias-angry-summer/)
- [The Rising Cost of Climate Impacts in India](https://350.org/the-rising-cost-of-climate-impacts-in-india/)