Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Christian Murillo was inspired by a love for the wild, glacier landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Simona Clausnitzer mirrors the devastating, lingering impacts of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Constance Collins evokes the process of coral bleaching.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Michele Colburn was influenced by the 2021 fire season in California.
The lowest 18 sea ice extents on record have all occurred in the last 18 years (2007–2024).
Sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic are more hurricane-friendly so far this season than in the record-setting 2020 season.
Temperatures across the North Atlantic Ocean have been record hot for more than a year.
These maps compare the extent and severity of the ongoing event to the peak coral heat stress of the three prior events.
Last year's marine heat wave and coral bleaching was so unprecedented, NOAA had to add new risk levels to this satellite-based monitoring scale.
In a record going back to 1850, Earth hasn't had a year colder than the 20th-century average since 1976—almost half a century.