A new study suggests a series of Gulf of Mexico reefs are more resilient to warmer oceans as they are exposed to a wider range of temperatures brought on by a physical movement of seawater called “eddies.”

High-hazard structures such as dams and nuclear power plants have been engineered to withstand floods from unlikely but possible precipitation, but precipitation estimates are based on outdated work.

New research suggests that about one-third of the world’s land could see more frequent multi-year droughts under a low-emission scenario, and 62 percent could face more frequent and severe droughts under the highest-emission scenario.

GOES-U is the latest addition to NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, enhancing weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and climate research.

To understand how structural fires at the wildland urban interface contribute to air pollution, recent tests measured gas and particle emissions from burning structural materials under realistic fire conditions.

NOAA’s Climate Resilience Toolkit group recently worked with members of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to facilitate updates to federal agency Climate Adaptation Plans.

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System will soon publish two new documents to help local communities evaluate their successes in heat governance and identify challenges and areas for future improvement.

Across the United States, only Alaska has higher-than-average odds of a cool July. Elsewhere, July is favored to be much warmer than average. That heat forecast plays a big role in expectations for significant drought expansion this month.

Weymouth Woods in the Sandhills region of North Carolina, by Wyatt Greene. The region once supported forests of longleaf pine trees and was sometimes referred to as the Piney Woods. Source :. Weymouth ...

Visits to emergency departments (blue line) for heat-related illness spiked in response to high daily heat index values (red and green lines). Emergency departments saw at least 75 visits for heat rel ...