is not actually a synonym for "cold snap"; rather, it's a well-known feature of Earth's atmosphere that describes the high-altitude winds that blow around the pole every winter, miles above us in a re ...

Overall, since 1990, human-produced greenhouse gases have increased the heating power of the atmosphere by 1.11 Watts per square meter, according to the AGGI. Carbon dioxide is the big hitter, respons ...

extent, which is equivalent to nearly three times the size of Texas. The overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2023 is 12.5 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average ...

it can turn the water a rusty-red—hence the phrase red tides. Red tides are not uncommon in the area, but this particular red tide has been ongoing for some parts of the Florida Gulf Coast for the pas ...

tons of carbon (equivalent to a little over 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide) to the atmosphere each year. Because that is more carbon than natural processes can remove, atmospheric carbon dio ...

at 1.2 °C, it is still well above the El Niño threshold of 0.5 °C (0.9 °F). Looking at the atmosphere over the tropical Pacific, however, we find that the expected El Niño pattern—weaker-than-average ...

record-low Great Lakes ice coverage does not necessarily signal record-low final extent later in the season. Click and hold to drag slider. Percent ice cover on the Great Lakes on January 1, 2009 (lef ...

time daily rainfall record. Los Angeles recorded 2.94 inches which set a new daily record. Rains in Los Angeles since the start of the water year in October are more than 200% of average; remarkable c ...

with other resources that document changes in the Arctic with scientific data. On Banks Island in Canada's High Arctic, Inuit hunters have a close relationship with the natural world. They have observ ...

North Atlantic, located offshore of the southeastern United States. The currents there circulate in a slow, clockwise loop called a gyre around the Sargasso Sea, where surface water and floating objec ...