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Department:September 20, 2018We live in a warming world. And we often characterize that warming through metrics of temperature. But that’s only a sliver of the story. Another sliver, and perhaps a more consequential one, is Big Rain.
Department:September 5, 2018The September 2018 temperature and precipitation Outlooks for the United States predict warmer than average temperatures for much of the country and wetter than average conditions for the central Plains and eastern seaboard.
Department:August 30, 2018Hot, dry conditions turned northern Europe brown during the summer of 2018.
Department:August 23, 2018While the western United States baked under high temperatures, the eastern United States has been getting increasingly soggy this summer.
Department:August 22, 2018Amazingly, ENSO doesn't just impact climate anomalies like temperature and precipitation over the United States. It can also influence the sea level, which may have major implications as the sea level continues to rise in the future.
Department:August 21, 2018In addition to carbon dioxide emissions, seasonal changes can alter ocean acidity. Higher ocean acidity can impact people's food, income, and industry.
Department:August 16, 2018Unusually persistent harmful algal blooms have plagued fresh and salt water environments in southern Florida during the summer 2018.
Department:August 8, 2018Nighttime temperatures across much of California were record warm in July 2018, part of an accelerating warming trend in the state since the start of the twenty-first century.
Department:August 1, 2018In a sidebar to the State of the Climate in 2017 report, experts describe how human-caused climate change is leading to longer, more damaging fire seasons in the evergreen-dominated boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, and Eurasia.
Department:August 1, 2018As part of the State of the Climate in 2017 report, experts describe a record three-year-long episode of mass coral bleaching at tropical reefs worldwide. Previous global bleaching events required the presence of El Niño, but the devastating 2014–2017 event began before El Niño emerged and continued long after it ended—implicating human-caused global warming in the mass die offs.
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