research oceanographer and director of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center laboratory in Narragansett, R. I. Instead, it's that the number of juvenile lobsters that make it to adulthood has dr ...

retreat: thousands of walruses hauled out on a barrier island offshore of Alaska's northern coast in late summer 2014. This has occurred every year since 2010, except 2012. Normally, walruses—especial ...

storm in the Mozambique Channel. The southern African monsoon season is long, up to 6 months in some locations. As such, it can have many ups and downs along the way. But the 2014-2015 monsoon season ...

episodes typically last a few weeks and are difficult to predict more than one to two weeks in advance, so the patterns doesn't factor in to the Climate Prediction Center's seasonal (3-month) outlooks ...

are not predictions for the actual temperatures or precipitation amounts on a given day in August. They simply provide the probability (percent chance) that August precipitation or temperature at any ...

the sea surface temperature was showing some volatility, and we just weren't confident enough in the second step of the flowchart—that the cooler sea surface would persist for several seasons—to be su ...

like calcium carbonate from the soil. Then, as the water drips down into caves through cracks in the ground, it leaves those minerals behind in crystal deposits that form speleothems—similar to the wa ...

in that region so far this winter, resulting from a northward shift in the jet stream. Shifts in the position of the jet stream are one of the effects of changes in the Arctic Oscillation, a natural s ...

to experience below-average snow extent, and El Niño does increase the likelihood of mild winters in Canada and the northern U. S. But this April's record-low is not an isolated incident: it's part of ...

bills, and public cooling places remain open longer. These maps and many others can be found in the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009), a national assessment conducted by ...