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On May 17, 2023, from 10:30 a.m. – noon ET, the NOAA Adaptation Sciences Program will host a webinar featuring a project focused on developing a Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean.

City and county officials and residents don’t always understand what hazard mitigation is or why it benefits their community, including how it may help with obtaining FEMA funding. NOAA has provided a resource focused on the benefits of hazard mitigation in Oklahoma.

El Niño and La Niña affect weather in the United States, but the connection is a long chain of ocean-to-atmosphere links that climate models don’t always capture. New techniques may help scientists evaluate model accuracy.

It’s springtime! Here’s why ENSO forecasters would rather skip the forecast even when a potentially significant El Niño appears to be developing.

A new paper quantifies the role played by phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean, which moderates climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and transporting carbon to the ocean depths.

A new study finds the corals within the Port of Miami’s urbanized environment have demonstrated great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high salinity, and low pH levels.

On April 21, 2023, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) to advance environmental justice initiatives.

Plants emit molecules while growing, reproducing, and defending themselves, and atmospheric chemical reactions turn these compounds into biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOA). But how do human activities affect biogenic SOA?

Large volcanic eruptions significantly impact climate, so it’s surprising that climate predictions for 1954–2015 appeared less accurate when they used volcanic eruptions to force model simulations.

The Western United States has experienced a winter deluge, following a continuous drought since 2020 and a climate-driven megadrought since the early 2000s. A new webinar examines what might happen next.