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Cover image for the 2024 State of the Climate Report, with the title and other text on a background image showing damage from Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina.

The State of the Climate in 2024

NCICS scientists make key contributions to the newly published annual assessment of the climate The Bulletin of the American Meteorological […]

A New Approach to Measuring Extreme Heat

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A Climate Institute in the Midst of a Climate Disaster

NCICS staff are safe and have returned to work, but friends, neighbors, and our region experienced devastating impacts. By Tom […]

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