November 14, 2021 Torrential rain in southern British Columbia and western Washington spurred deadly floods and mudslides that have damaged infrastructure and isolated communities. Torrential…
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Scientists have provided new insights into how intense thunderstorms drive the injection of water vapor from the troposphere — the atmospheric layer closest to Earth’s…
Active flame front of the Zaca Fire, the second largest fire on record in California. U.S. Forest Service. Credit: John Newman Statistical modeling highlights predictive…
October 1 – 12, 2021 Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought…
October 19, 2019 October 20, 2021 Recent storms added to an already heavy monsoon season. Persistent rain in mid-October 2021 brought more flooding to central…
As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations…
By the end of the century, extreme sea levels along coastlines across the world will become 100 times more frequent. Global warming will cause extreme…
Over the last year and a half, the 1-in-100-year Covid-19 pandemic drove millions of children into hunger. But every four to seven years, an El…
The view from the DC-8 research aircraft as flies through the marine boundary layer, the portion of the atmosphere close to the ocean’s surface where…
2012 – 2018 Scientists reveal details of a rare type of lightning that stretches into space. A rare type of lightning has had scientists scratching…
[embedded content]Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent on September 16, 2021, at 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). Credit: NASAEstablished in 1958,…
September 16, 2021 Sea ice covered more area this summer compared to recent years, but it was also much thinner. Sea ice in the Arctic…
August 27, 2021 September 1, 2017 Water levels at Glen Canyon Dam have fallen to their lowest level since 1969 and are still dropping. As…
Smoke rises from Calwood Fire as it nears a neighborhood in Boulder County on October 17, 2020. Credit: Malachi Brooks Rising Temperatures and Risky Development…
A still image visualizing Arctic sea ice on September 16, 2021, when the ice appeared to reach its yearly minimum extent. On this date, the…
A radar instrument flown by the Delta-X mission captured data on an oil slick (bottom inset image) off the coast of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on…
While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, a severe drought, coupled with extreme temperatures, have sustained several major fires for much of August.…
September 12, 2021 The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end. Hurricanes…
The most devastating tornadoes are often preceded by a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billowing above a severe thunderstorm. New research reveals the…
September 3, 2021 Federal and state agencies and private companies are working to find and contain oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ida left…