Sparse and inconsistent coverage of ocean observations makes analysis of climate impacts on ocean physics and marine ecosystems challenging. A new study compares the skills of three high-resolution reanalyses.

Summary: With climate change altering the southeast Alaskan shoreline, this StoryMap helps communities and decision makers identify appropriate adaptation strategies that will support southeast Alaskan communities now and into the future.

A new United Nations report confirms that the recovery of Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track, and that the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that guides the phase-out of ozone-destroying chemicals, has had the additional benefit of slowing global warming.

Floods and landslides along the U.S. West Coast in January 2023 have happened thanks to an atmospheric river. Satellites can easily spot these rivers over the ocean, observing their structure is harder over land. So NOAA has developed on-the-ground atmospheric river observatories.

Summary: This StoryMap orients the user with information about climate change indicators and provides resources to explore these more in depth.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The latest ENSO Outlook does in fact favor the end of La Niña with a slightly over 80% chance that ENSO-Neutral conditions will reign supreme by springtime. For more on that and another look at how daily temperatures vary during winter, click below.

Despite the cooling influence of La Niña, 2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record.

Typical brown speckled back of the Houston toad. Source :. Houston Toad. Public Domain image by Robert A. Thomas - Bury, R. Bruce, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr, Gary M. Fellers. 1980. Conservation of the Amphib ...

Water levels at Lake Whitney, near Waco, Texas, dropped substantially due to drought during 2011. Water was so low that it exposed dead trees and a reddish, sandy shoreline. Source :. On the shores of ...

While the USGS is the primary agency that monitors volcanic activity in the United States, NOAA oversees safety systems for tsunamis and other volcano-related threats, and studies the impact of volcanic gasses on our global climate. 2022 was a busy year.