We’re still in neutral, but El Niño conditions may be on the horizon. What’s happening in the tropical Pacific?

Published : . October 2018. This special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change describes the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. The r ...

The 2017-2018 water year came to a dry end in California at the end of September, a year after wet conditions alleviated drought. 

From heat waves to heavy rain, the National Climate Assessment's recently updated collection of indicators shows how climate is changing.

Costly and inconvenient, high-tide flooding of coastal communities is on the rise. Thanks to higher water levels from El Niño and sea level rise, the number of high-tide flood days in 2018 is projected to be 60% higher this year than would have been common around 2000. Find out what's predicted for your city in this interactive map.

The 2018 Arctic sea ice minimum was not a record low, but it was well below the 1981–2010 average, and it continued the long-term trend of Arctic sea ice decline.

New research suggests the climate change could affect how ENSO impacts temperature and wildfires. Read on to learn what that means.

Forecasters think the tropical Pacific climate phenomenon known as El Niño is likely to visit this winter. What might that mean for snow?

We live in a warming world. And we often characterize that warming through metrics of temperature. But that’s only a sliver of the story. Another sliver, and perhaps a more consequential one, is Big Rain.

In the bull's-eye of heaviest rainfall predicted for Hurricane Florence, parts of North and South Carolina may see more than 4 times their average September rainfall in a single week.