News & Features

Tornados and blizzards. It's spring across the Great Plains!

Tom Di Liberto | May 4, 2017

A sprawling storm system brought severe weather, tornadoes, and flooding to parts of the United States and blizzard conditions to others.

Spring drought conditions expand in Florida

Tom Di Liberto | May 1, 2017

While much of the rest of the country has been getting soaked (or buried in snow), below-average winter rainfall and well above average temperatures pushed Florida into moderate and severe drought in April 2017.

2017 U. S. tornado season off to a whirlwind start

Tom Di Liberto | April 25, 2017

The 2017 tornado season across the United States has gotten off to an active start. As of April 22, 570 tornadoes have been reported, which is almost a hundred more than average.

Climate conditions aren't solely to blame for current famine in Africa

Tom Di Liberto | April 10, 2017

In Africa, famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan while other areas in Somalia and Nigeria are highly food insecure. But the reasons go beyond climate factors.

Second year of widespread bleaching underway on the Great Barrier Reef

Michon Scott | March 30, 2017

On the heels of 2016's devastating mass bleaching event at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, tourists and park managers are reporting thermal stress and mass bleaching again in early 2017.

A superbloom of wildflowers overtakes California's southeastern deserts in March 2017

Rebecca Lindsey | March 28, 2017

Following years of exceptional drought, California's southeastern deserts were awash in a superbloom of short-lived but spectacular wildflowers in March 2017.