decade of phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific. ...

F on June 20. Las Vegas also broke its daily record when temperature spiked to 115°F on June 20. In Needles, California, a city located in the Mojave Desert and known for extreme heat, the high temper ...

rains led to tragedy in California this week, after a winter storm passing over Southern California led to mudslides and debris flows that killed at least 17 people according to the New York Times. Th ...

the warm outweighed the cool. The national average temperature departure was large enough to rank in the upper third of Junes in the historical record. Looking at year-to-date temperature, things get ...

borne instruments nearly 100,000 feet into the air twice a month, to collect data about the atmosphere—including climate-critical water vapor levels. ESRL's Sam Oltmans began the water vapor measureme ...

Austria's second warmest, but also its driest July since national precipitation records began in 1858, NCDC reported. Nationwide, precipitation was only 35 percent of the 1981-2010 average, and some p ...

to life on April 14, 2010, injecting billowing clouds of steam and volcanic ash into the atmosphere. The hazards of flying through jet-engine-damaging clouds of volcanic ash prompted commercial airlin ...

plant and animal life will become almost unrecognizable." Food and forage production will decline in agricultural regions experiencing increased frequency and duration of drought. Even without drought ...

and colleague Vanessa Lougheed compared aerial photos from 1948 to satellite images acquired in 2002, 2008, and 2010, and to low-altitude, kite-borne imagery acquired in 2010. Between 2010 and 2013, t ...

seven inches of rain fell in a six-hour downpour in southwestern Nigeria on August 26, 2011. Media reports citing the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture said that rainfall totals from the ...