for a large majority of the glaciers studied in Norway, New Zealand, Central Asia, and Alaska. In the North Cascade Mountains in the northwestern United States, La Niña conditions resulted in record p ...

to desert parks to witness the phenomenon. Among the locations where seasonal climate conditions in winter 2016-17 were favorable for a spring superbloom is Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, in southeas ...

s a pattern to the shifting that is sort of like water sloshing back and forth in a bowl. The atmosphere sloshes northward; air pressure strengthens over the Arctic and weakens over the mid-latitudes ...

atmosphere above them. Thus, ocean currents carry huge amounts of heat around the globe. The atmosphere affects ocean temperatures and currents, and in turn, sea surface temperatures influence weather ...

In the 2017 issue of NOAA's Arctic Report Card, scientists report on a body of paleoclimate research that shows that the extent and rate of sea ice decline in the Arctic is unprecedented over at least ...

North Carolinians are at increasing risk of heat-related illness. The Climate and Health team in the state's Department of Health and Human Services focused on the Sandhills Region of the state to dev ...

chance of neutral through the summer. (ENSO = El Niño/Southern Oscillation, the whole ocean/ atmosphere El Niño/La Niña system.). If you've been paying close attention to the sea surface temperatures, ...

a clear interpretation of the sequence of the geological past and interpretation of how the CO2 concentration impacts the climate of the past. Educator needs to register (no cost) to gain access to t ...

years ago, microbes neither made nor needed oxygen. Instead, when life evolved, Earth's atmosphere was very different from what we experience today. Although nitrogen levels may have been similar, oth ...

there's a bit of a mystery. What caused the bloom is straightforward; higher-than-average runoff in the Maumee River watershed, which flows into western Lake Erie, resulted in high concentrations of p ...