NOAA’s National Integrated Heat Health Information System and science partner, CAPA Strategiesoffsite link, are now accepting applications from organizations interested in participating in the 2022 Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns.
On average there are about 80 tropical cyclones a year. The question scientists ask is: why 80? Will this number increase or decrease as the planet warms? A new review paper, published in the Earth’s Future journal, presents the state of the science.
But the Montreal Protocol is working: the hole in our planet’s UV-blocking ozone layer was smaller than those of the 1990s and 2000s.
Northern Hemisphere land areas were record warm, and La Niña left its imprint on global precipitation patterns.
Although methane emissions have declined in the western United States in recent years, but methane leaks continue. Close monitoring in Utah’s Uinta Basin shows what is improving and what remains to be fixed.
Wildfire is part of the natural ecosystem cycle over the western United States, but recent increases in frequency and intensity are mainly driven by climate change, a new study shows.
Urban areas can better reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with detailed, timely, comprehensive emission data. The Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS), intended to meet new reporting goals, is now open for comment.
Several new NOAA Climate Program Office projects, focused on island resilience and coastal blue carbon among others, were highlighted during events hosted by the US Center during the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
If ENSO is a romantic comedy, our ocean-atmosphere couple is in an on-again phase, and they're expected to stay together through the winter.
Global carbon emissions are projected to bounce back to 36.4 billion metric tons this year after an unprecedented drop caused by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to an annual report by the Global Carbon Project.