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Warming ocean temperatures push lobster populations north
Ocean temperatures around the globe have risen about 0.12°C per decade since 1980. In the coastal Northeast, sea surface temperatures warmed by nearly double the global rate from 1982 to 2006. These...
View ArticleLate winter wildfires burn through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in March 2017
Hot and dry conditions across the Southern Plains proved perfect for the spread of large wildfires across the prairie in March. Observing & PredictingExtreme Events2017 U.S. Spring WildfiresEvent...
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From cfs to sandbags: a public-private partnership turns technical forecasts...
Repeated flooding Flooding of the Red River of the North has repeatedly devastated homes and businesses in and around Moorhead, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota. From 2009 to 2011 alone, three major...
View ArticleSmog descends on India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017
Suffocating smog stifled communities across northern India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017. Climate ImpactsExtreme Events2017 Smog in India and PakistanEvent TrackerNews and FeaturesPublished Date:...
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Spring is arriving earlier in National Parks
This post is excerpted from an article published by NASA’s Earth Observatory. This spring, the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin, southwest of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., are reaching peak...
View ArticleWildfires burn through southwestern Colorado in June 2018
Exceptional drought in preceding months primed southern Colorado forests for wildfire in mid-June 2018. Climate ImpactsExtreme EventsColorado wildfires in June 2018Event TrackerNews and...
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The Karuk’s relationship with fire: Adapting to climate change on the Klamath
This story was first published on our sister site, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. Fire is foundational to the Karuk Tribe, who live and manage 1.048 million acres of their aboriginal lands along...
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Warming winters and dwindling Sierra Nevada snowpack will squeeze water...
Snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada Mountains provides roughly 75 percent of California’s agricultural water, and 60 percent of Southern California’s water resources. Warm winters can cause snow droughts...
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Building climate and coastal resilience in the OBX
This story originally appeared on Climate.gov's sister site, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. Nags Head can't ignore the rising sea Dare County, in North Carolina’s Outer Banks—known colloquially...
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Wet spring linked to forecast for big Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ this summer
Rotator Image: The devastating floods in the Missouri and Mississippi basins aren't the end of the problems caused by the wet spring in 2019. Fertilizer overload from high river runoff is forecast to...
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Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with a sea level rise expert about past and...
Rotator Image: On Tuesday, November 19, NOAA sea level rise expert William Sweet answered questions in a Climate.gov tweet chat about sea level rise and U.S. high-tide flooding. Category: Climate...
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Anticipating more activity in the Arctic, NOAA invests in research to advance...
Rotator Image: A new crop of studies funded by NOAA's Climate Program Office explores a range of questions about sea ice forecasting, including one of the most basic: how far ahead is it even possible...
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As storms and sea level rise reshape beaches, volunteers keep track of...
Rotator Image: Volunteers in three states are recording changes to their local beaches, information that's vital to protecting and restoring their seashores. Category: Climate ImpactsObserving &...
View ArticleLarger-than-average dead zone forecast for Gulf of Mexico in summer 2020
NOAA scientists forecast that the Gulf dead zone would measure roughly 6,700 square miles—bigger than the long-term average recorded since 1985, but lower than the record-high extent observed in...
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Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with heat experts on mapping urban heat islands
Rotator Image: Join three heat experts to talk about how we map, monitor, and lessen the impacts of urban heat islands.Category: Climate Change & Global WarmingClimate ImpactsObserving &...
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How will global warming harm U.S. communities, infrastructure, and the economy?
Nationwide, the cost of weather and climate-related disasters is already rising, and the trend is likely to continue as many extreme events become more frequent and severe. The economic impacts of...
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¿Cómo dañará el calentamiento global a las comunidades, la infraestructura y...
(Traducido por Roberto Molar Candanosa. Leer en inglés.)En todo el país, el costo de los desastres meteorológicos y relacionados con el clima ya está aumentando, y es probable que la tendencia continúe...
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Release of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report Working Group 1
Rotator Image: The findings of their review of more than 14,000 studies are clear: climate change is affecting nearly every part of the planet, and there is no doubt that human activities are the...
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