Library Guides: Climate Change, Energy & Sustainability: Websites, Reports & Podcasts

Climate Change, Weather & Sustainability

CarbonBrief
A UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.
Climate.gov
Climate Central
Research and reporting by leading scientists and journalists about climate change and its impact on the public.
Global Carbon Project
Features reports containing data on greenhouse gas budgets presented in charts.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The UN body for assessing science related to climate change.
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Reports and data on energy budget and renewables. Includes country-level information.
NASA Global Climate Change
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Centers for Environmental Information
Our World in Data: CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Princeton Environmental Research
Skeptical Science
Explains the science of climate change and debunks some common myths.
State of the Climate Reports
From the National Centers for Environmental Information.
World Bank Open Data: Climate Change
Current and historical data related to climate change (carbon dioxide emissions, methane emissions, energy use, forest area, and more) for countries around the world. Includes time series.
World Weather Attribution
An international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events.
Yale Climate Connections
A nonpartisan, multimedia service providing original daily web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

CoCoRaHS WxTalk Webinars
A series of webinars featuring experts in the fields of atmospheric science, climatology and other pertinent disciplines. Topics have included: Snow, Satellites, Hurricanes, Lightning, Clouds, Tornadoes, Flash Floods, Fire Weather, Weather History, and Radar.
Hurricanes and Cyclones News -- ScienceDaily
National Weather Service
Click on a locality to discover local weather information, including current conditions, forecast, climate normals and historical data.
National Weather Service -- Rainfall Monitoring
Provides precipitation totals for various time intervals recorded at different professional and amateur stations throughout the Philadelphia region.
NWS Education
Educational resources from the National Weather Service.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: How Weather Works
Weather Channel
The website of the cable channel. Includes short videos, current radar, current conditions, hourly and 10-days forecasts, and more.
Weather News -- ScienceDaily
Weather Underground
Enter a locality and find detailed information. Includes satellite and radar along with data from both official and amateur weather stations. Historical data available.

Carboncounter 2021: Cars Evaluated Against Climate Targets
From the MIT Trancik Lab.
earthday.org
Energy Star
Find products that have the U.S. government's symbol for energy efficiency. Also information on how to build energy efficient homes as well as how to make existing homes and buildings more energy efficient.
Environmental Health News
Office of Federal Sustainability
Coordinates policy to promote energy and environmental sustainability across the U.S. Federal Government.
Our World in Data: Renewable Energy Statistics
ScienceDaily: Energy Technology News
UN Sustainable Development Goals
17 goals to transform our world.

Climate One
Costing the Earth
BBC Radio podcast that describes man's effect on the environment and how the environment reacts.
Environmental Insights
The podcast of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Interviews with people working at the interface between economics and the environment.
The MIT Energy Initiative Podcast
Conversations at MIT about the future of energy.
MPR Climate Cast
MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) meteorologist Paul Huttner with the latest research on our changing climate.
The Sustainability Agenda
Leading sustainability thinkers offer their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the latest thinking, identify what’s working and what's not, and talk about the future of sustainability.