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Climate Change & Global Warming
- Department:April 13, 2018
A quick spin around the March 2018 U.S. climate scene, all else being equal.
- Department:April 9, 2018
A recent analysis of 276 National Parks found that about three-quarters of them are experiencing earlier springs. The changes in when leaves and flowers emerge affect not just pollinators, but also park staff, who have to budget and prepare for earlier visitors.
- Department:April 2, 2018
Global warming will make heat waves hotter, longer, and more frequent. Communities in the U.S. West and the Great Lakes region may have the least time to prepare.
- Department:April 10, 2018
El calentamiento global es un síntoma del problema mucho más grande del cambio climático causado por los humanos.
- Department:June 15, 2016
Las actividades humanas emiten 60 veces o más la cantidad de dióxido de carbono liberado por los volcanes cada año.
- Department:February 15, 2018
Much of the southwestern United States has seen below-average amounts of snow fall so far during Winter. While currently impacting ski resorts across the region, the lack of snow could bring even greater problems to water resources later this year.
- Department:January 18, 2018
The 2017 average temperature was the third highest since 1880, behind 2016 (warmest) and 2015 (second warmest).
- Department:December 21, 2017
Our climate is changing. To help our users see how different times and places are warming at different rates, NCEI has created a new series of trend maps for the contiguous U.S. In this blog, NCEI's Jake Crouch gives us a show and tell featuring the new maps.
- Department:December 14, 2017
Now in its sixth year, a NOAA-led report published by the American Meteorological Society provides the results of more than two dozen studies of various extreme weather and climate events in 2016 and the role global warming did or didn't play in them.
- Department:December 12, 2017
NOAA scientists have released the 2017 Arctic Report Card: the complete guide to climate conditions in the planet's Far North.