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A report of the Sustainable Urban Coasts in the Urban Northeast workshop, hosted in October 2014 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was published online by Local Environment. ...

Hurricane Matthew tore a path through the Caribbean and southeastern United States leaving behind a trail of destruction. 

Cooler-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the central-eastern tropical Pacific ocean have continued and deepened during September as compared to August. Sea surface temperature is one criteria th ...

Odds are back on for the development of La Niña this fall. Our blogger discusses what happened during September to change the forecast. 

The ozone hole didn't cause global warming, but climate and the ozone hole are related in other ways.

For New Englanders, the saying “as American as apple pie” may as well be “as New England as lobster.” But warming sea surface temperatures from climate change are forcing populations of the American lobster to higher latitudes than ever before—and upending fishing communities on the New England coast.  

Sometimes, on a long journey, it’s good to revisit the basics. That’s the theme for this edition of Beyond the Data. We’re going old school, looking at some good old climatology adages and truisms, through the lens of a sturdy, reliable warhorse of a dataset.

Using the June floods in West Virginia as an example, the Climate Prediction Center's Tom Di Liberto explains how meteorologists are like paleontologists turning the bones of an incomplete skeleton into a complete picture of a dinosaur.

For those who are still waiting for winter's first snow, Deke Arndt blogs about using historical climate data to ballpark when it might arrive.

A CPO-funded study was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research . The paper includes data showing sea level rise in the northern Indian Ocean rose twice as fast as the global ... ...