the start of the satellite era in 1979, the extent of ice covering the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer has shrunk by more than 40 percent. ...

there were big extremes of both kinds. A series of atmospheric river events boosted precipitation in the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, and northern California. On the other side of t ...

the level of uncertainty in the projections. A thin white outline means greater uncertainty in the direction of future change (that is, more disagreement among models about whether energy spending wil ...

ghoul-girls, more isn't always better in regions where La Niña tends to cause drought. In areas like the southern US, Horn of Africa and southeast South America, multiple La Niñas may mean consecutive ...

only the ocean portion of Earth's surface, the main January story is the continuation of La Niña in the tropical Pacific Ocean. La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pa ...

also increase. Based on the science that was available when the UNFCCC treaty was negotiated in 1992, parties agreed that 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures w ...

that the monthly precipitation totals will be above average, it does at least tilt the odds In that direction. Western drought continues. As of March 29, 2022, it's clear that western drought continue ...

Pacific Ocean. El Niños tend to make global temperatures soar during the winters when they peak. In fact, the only winter warmer than 2019-20 was 2015-16, when one of the strongest El Niños since 1950 ...

you might think things haven't changed much since last month. The July sea surface temperature in the Niño 3.4 region, the main region we use to monitor ENSO (ENSO = El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the ...

Center for Climate Assessment and Policy authored the report, which describes major changes in temperature, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, plants, animals, and oceans. Some of the content comes from W ...