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Climate Change & Global Warming
Department:September 15, 2016In September 2016, Arctic sea ice tied with 2007 for the second-lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, underscoring an ongoing trend of sea ice decline.
Department:September 7, 2016Three days of heavy rains devastated Louisiana in mid-August 2016. NOAA models find that warming due to greenhouse gases has made an event like that at least 40% more likely and 10% more intense.
Department:August 2, 2016In the 2015 edition of the State of the Climate report, climate and biology experts wrote about some dramatic impacts of warming on life in the ocean.
Department:August 2, 2016The author of the glacier chapter of the 2015 State of the Climate report and his daughter talk about how family connections brought them together scientifically, and how science keeps bringing their family together.
Department:June 15, 2016Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year.
Department:May 26, 2016After a severe coral bleaching event struck the Great Barrier Reef, what does a future of climate change mean for the reef?
Department:May 20, 2016Alaska’s statewide warming rate of +5.3°F per century since 1950 is faster than any other state in the Union, by a comfortable margin. In our latest Beyond the Data blog, NCEI's Deke Arndt talks about how the interplay between climate and landscape and the soil itself put the Last Frontier on the front lines of climate change.
Department:May 18, 2016One reason the Fort McMurray area was at high risk for an early-season forest fire was that April snow cover was well below average in much of western North America.
Department:May 12, 2016A massive wildfire in northern Alberta has grown out of control, causing the evacuation of Fort McMurray, a city of 80,000 people. What climate conditions fostered this unusual early-season fire?
Department:May 31, 2016Using climate simulations, water managers in the Colorado River basin helped helped stakeholders imagine and prepare for future risks.
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