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Climate Impacts
- 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.
- Department:December 8, 2020
August sea surface temperatures in the Arctic are rising by as much as 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade.
- Department:December 8, 2020
Between September 2019 and August 2020, the rate of ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet was much lower that the record set the previous 12-month period, but but still above the 2002–2020 average. Overall, Greenland continues to lose ice.