What's the difference between global warming and climate change?
Global warming is one symptom of the much larger problem of human-caused climate change.
What's the difference between global warming and climate change? Read More >
Global warming is one symptom of the much larger problem of human-caused climate change.
What's the difference between global warming and climate change? Read More >
New research by NOAA, University of Alaska, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the journal Oceanography shows that surface waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas could reac
New study shows Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine species Read More >
Coffee lovers now consume more than 2.25 billion cups a day, but climate change may increase the cost and harm the taste of this popular beverage–not to mention threaten the livelihoods of millions of small famers.
The nationwide average precipitation was the highest ever recorded in 121 years. Devastating floods ended a multiyear drought in the Southern Plains.
May 2015 was wettest month ever recorded in U.S. Read More >
There’s a very high probability that El Niño will continue through the fall and early winter, and it could become a strong event.
June El Niño update: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead Read More >
Meteorologist Tom Di Liberto explains how an unusual wind pattern and a late monsoon contributed to India's deadly May 2015 heatwave.
India heat wave kills thousands Read More >
After an intense start to 2015, the waters of the South Pacific are finally cooling off, bringing relief to corals. But NOAA scientists expect stressful conditions to spread into the northeast Pacific and the Caribbean this summer.
El Niño revs up coral bleaching threat in the Caribbean Read More >
A paper supported by a grant from CPO’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program, was published online in Nature Climate Change on June 8.
Cultural knowledge and local vulnerability in African American Communities Read More >
Terrestrial ecosystems pull about one-fourth of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions out of the atmosphere per year, serving as a sink for CO 2 since industrialization.