Though climate change is a global public health crisis, most doctors and public health professionals do not receive the education necessary to effectively communicate climate change-related health impacts to their patients. Between July 2021 and February 2022, a new program delivered 22 weekly telementoring sessions for healthcare professionals.
A NOAA co-investigator contributed to the new publication “Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the ‘Intentional Fire’ podcast,” which is now available online.
With extreme heat events growing in intensity, frequency, and duration, cities need heat adaptation strategies to improve public health and social equity. City-Heat Equity Adaptation tool (City-HEAT) is a new adaptation tool to support planning.
On February 13, 2023, The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)will host a webinar titled “Arctic Report Card: Background and Key Findings.”
Sparse and inconsistent coverage of ocean observations makes analysis of climate impacts on ocean physics and marine ecosystems challenging. A new study compares the skills of three high-resolution reanalyses.
A new United Nations report confirms that the recovery of Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track, and that the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that guides the phase-out of ozone-destroying chemicals, has had the additional benefit of slowing global warming.
Floods and landslides along the U.S. West Coast in January 2023 have happened thanks to an atmospheric river. Satellites can easily spot these rivers over the ocean, observing their structure is harder over land. So NOAA has developed on-the-ground atmospheric river observatories.
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The latest ENSO Outlook does in fact favor the end of La Niña with a slightly over 80% chance that ENSO-Neutral conditions will reign supreme by springtime. For more on that and another look at how daily temperatures vary during winter, click below.
Despite the cooling influence of La Niña, 2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record.
While the USGS is the primary agency that monitors volcanic activity in the United States, NOAA oversees safety systems for tsunamis and other volcano-related threats, and studies the impact of volcanic gasses on our global climate. 2022 was a busy year.