As of 2022, the warming effect of long-lived greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere had increased by 49% compared to 1990. Relative to pre-industrial times, today's atmosphere absorbs more than 3 extra watts of energy per square meter.

May 2022 was the ninth-warmest May in the 143-year NOAA record. Despite La Niña, there's a greater than 99 percent chance that 2022 will rank among the 10 warmest years on record.

Summary: Over the past five years, the NOAA Office of Education, NOAA Climate Program Office, and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System have funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 40+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands.

Summary: Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

June 8, 2022 was World Ocean Day. The global ocean covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produces at least half of the world’s oxygen. It’s home to most of Earth’s biodiversity, and the main source of protein for more than a billion people.

A virtual workshop, “Heat + Housing + Health Equity Network” for the Southeastern U.S. (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi), will take place on June 23, 2022. It will be the first of a two-part initiative to develop a regional network of communities, practitioners, and researchers.

Great Lakes ice cover affects activities ranging from shipping to recreation. Accurate forecasts are critical, but forecast products have been spatially and temporally limited. The next generation of NOAA’s Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS) aims to fill information gaps.

The chances that La Niña will last through summer are only slightly higher than the chances of a short dip into neutral before returning to La Niña by early winter. How will it affect the hurricane season?

Summer-like heat felt across much of the South during May. Drought conditions improve for some, yet remain across much of the West.

The results produced by the OpenNSPECT tool after the hydroseeding technique was implemented. Source : . Measuring the Effectiveness of an Erosion Control Practice for Watershed Manageme ...