During an extremely wet winter so far in France, the Seine River overflowed through Paris flooding streets and buildings nearby.

Like plants on land, single-celled ocean plants (phytoplankton)  bloom and die with the seasons. This animation shows monthly concentrations of chlorophyll in the North Pacific Ocean from summer 2002 through 2015.

Dry conditions have dominated large portions of the United States so far this winter.  Is the current double-dip La Niña to blame? 

Summary: Use this field guide as a quick climate change reference during field visits or forest planning in Minnesota.

Published : . January 2018. Each year the Global Risks Report works with experts and decision makers across the world to identify and analyze the most pressing risks that we face. As ...

U.S. maps of average daytime high temperature in January, April, July, and October in the 2060s show the projected impacts of continued high emissions of carbon dioxide. 

Published : . January 2018. During late 2016, the National Integrated Drought Information System, the National Drought Mitigation Center, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, and o ...

La Niña usually means a drier than average water year for California. So what happened in 2016-2017 when a weak La Niña coincided with a remarkably wet water year?

Have you ever wondered what the biggest, hottest, coldest or deepest weather records were for your state? So have many people. These data are interesting on the surface, but going Beyond the Data, they also help us think about resiliency in the face of weather, or climate or climate change, or some combination of the above.

Test runs of experimental models for predicting winter snowpack show some success in many  mountain ranges in the western United States.