Based on observations from 1991-2020, much of the United States has its hottest day of the year by the end of July. Historically speaking, where is the warmest day likely still to come?
Plants on land have helped slow global warming by capturing nearly a quarter of the carbon dioxide that human activities release in an average year. But where is it all going?
Record-setting bloom of toxic algae in North Pacific
August 6, 2015
Scienitsts find connection between El Niño and fewer spring tornadoes in the south-central United States.
A post for map geeks. How to turn an animation of a year's worth of daily rain maps into a single picture.
AgroClimate.org is an open-source suite of tools and resources tailored to farmers and ranchers in the southeastern United States.
Few things are more important to California’s water supply than the water content of the mountain snowpack at the start of the state’s warm season. In the latest round of our Climate Challenge game, experts and participants predicted the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack on May 1, 2015. The answer was disturbingly low.
Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.61 million square miles on February 25, and then began to retreat. Unless a late growth spurt takes place, it will be the smallest winter maximum in the satellite record.
“Winter” in Alaska
March 18, 2015