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Climate Impacts
Department:February 25, 2019Hurricanes can harm people not just by causing injuries, but also by flooding hospitals that would otherwise deliver needed treatment.
Department:February 22, 2019A wavy jet stream connected three extreme events across the eastern Pacific Ocean and the West Coast.
Department:February 19, 2019The Ogallala Aquifer has supported agricultural needs in multiple states for decades, but the aquifer is being drained faster than it is being replenished.
Department:February 7, 2019NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) tracks U.S. weather and climate events that have great economic and societal impacts. Since 1980, the U.S. has sustained 241 weather and climate disasters where the overall damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index, as of January 2019). The cumulative cost for these 241 events exceeds $1.6 trillion.
Department:February 5, 2019Cities and states across the U.S. already engage in emission mitigation activities. Continuing to reduce emissions will save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
Department:December 11, 2018From declining reindeer populations to a younger, thinner ice pack, here are four image-based stories from the 2018 Arctic Report Card.
Department:December 11, 2018September 2018 was the second-highest on record, and all five years since 2014 have been warmer than any prior records.
Department:December 11, 2018Reindeer and caribou abundance has declined 56 percent over the past two decades.
Department:November 26, 2018Farmers in southern Idaho pair up with NOAA-funded scientists to become more resilient to the basin's wide swings in snowpack, runoff, and groundwater recharge—today and in a warmer future.
Department:November 20, 2018What is the latest and greatest in ENSO science? This blogger travels to Guayaquil, Ecuador to find out.
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