climate change

Sep 22, 2021

Grant Will Fund Climate Resilience Strategies for Frontline Communities in the Carolinas

NC State will lead a multi-institutional effort to develop climate resilience solutions in frontline communities in the Carolinas.

Sep 3, 2020

Record-Setting Rain and Heat? This Is the New Normal

Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is a now problem.

Sep 2, 2020

Fire and Butterflies: Insights From a Natural Disaster

Human intervention can help rare species survive climate change.

Aug 25, 2020

Finding Ways to Keep Mosquitoes at Bay

For many of us, climate change means more mosquitoes.

Jan 10, 2020

2019: The Warmest Year in N.C. History

It's official: 2019 was North Carolina's warmest year on record. State Climatologist Kathie Dello breaks down what that means.

May 31, 2019

NCICS to Host NOAA Cooperative Institute

The institute will be dedicated to expanding our understanding of the full Earth system and its interactions with human activities.

Jul 19, 2018

Rapid Cloud-Clearing Phenomenon Could Provide Another Piece of Climate Puzzle

New NC State research published in Science shows rapid and dramatic clearing of low cloud cover could shed light on how clouds affect Earth’s heating and cooling.

Oct 20, 2016

Alumnus Martha Shulski Tries to Be Clear About Climate Change

Martha Shulski, the Nebraska state climatologist and an associate professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, helps the public understand climate data.

Apr 4, 2013

CICS-NC researchers: A warming world will intensify extreme precipitation events

This story originally ran April 3, 2013, as a media release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense. The…