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Climate Impacts
- Department:February 9, 2021
To better predict sea level rise, Rebecca Jackson wants to describe exactly what happens where liquid ocean meets the icy underside of glaciers. But how do you study a glacier that could calve a dangerous iceberg at any moment?
- Department:January 28, 2021
A rapidly warming stratosphere and swirling polar vortexes, oh my! What is going on so far this winter? Three stratosphere experts help us sort it out.
- Department:January 8, 2021
2020 smashed the previous record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. NCEI's Adam Smith gives us a full accounting of the year's events.
- Department:January 4, 2021
January 2021 is favored to be wetter and warmer than average for much of the country.
- Department:December 18, 2020
Let's take a trip to the land of penguins and see what ENSO means for Antarctica!
- Department:December 16, 2020
Desde las enfermedades relacionadas con el calor, pasando por la propagación de plagas y patógenos en nuevas zonas, hasta la acumulación de toxinas en los mariscos, es probable que el calentamiento global tenga graves repercusiones en la salud pública.
- Department:December 16, 2020
El calentamiento global y el cambio climático relacionado están impactando negativamente a las especies y hábitats de todo el país, incluyendo muchas que son económica y culturalmente importantes para los estadounidenses.
- Department:December 16, 2020
Desde incendios forestales más grandes e intensos hasta inundaciones repentinas más frecuentes, el calentamiento global ha aumentado el costo de los peligros naturales. El gasto actual en infraestructura no es suficiente para cubrir las reparaciones y mejoras.
- Department:December 10, 2020
La Niña's here through winter, but chances for ENSO to transition to neutral by spring are rising.
- Department:December 4, 2020
Unusually big blooms of tiny ocean plants occurred in the Arctic this past summer, linked to early summer retreat of sea ice.