The first comprehensive worldwide assessment of heatwaves down to regional levels has revealed that in nearly every part of the world heatwaves have been increasing…
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June 27, 2020 Winds routinely drive clouds of Saharan dust out of West Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer. But the intensity…
Holocene global mean surface temperature. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, Northern Arizona University Comprehensive compilation of pre-historic temperature records shows that global warming is reaching levels…
June 22, 2020 The 2019-20 winter in Europe was the warmest on record, with little snow. The spring was also drier and warmer than normal,…
Artist’s rendering of the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite. The width of the region scanned on Earth’s surface during each orbit is about 620 miles.…
MIT analysis uncovers the basis of the severe rainfall declines predicted by many models. Although global climate models vary in many ways, they agree on…
March 19 – June 20, 2020 Eastern Siberia is famous for some of the coldest wintertime temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. But in 2020, it…
Click image for full view. In 2008, atmospheric scientist Santiago Gassó authored a study that highlighted abnormally bright trails of clouds around remote peaks in…
Four large wildfires were captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 17, 2020 in this image. Three of them are in Arizona and one is…
When extreme climate conditions interact with stressors to social systems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences could be severe unless experts from diverse backgrounds…
Two satellite images show vegetation change from fog in two areas of the Namib desert. The left image shows the areas during periods of lower…
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a busy start. By the first week of June, Tropical Storm Arthur had already brushed North Carolina,…
(Click image for full view.) Artist’s impression of multi-wavelength emission above a thunderstorm based on data from ASIM. The high electric field associated with lightning…
(Click image for full view.) Yudi Peak, Alaska on May 6, 2020. Before the landslide. After a cold winter, a shift in weather patterns has…
The same area of Scott Reef photographed in 2010, and again in 2012 after Cyclone Lua. Credit: James Gilmour/AIMS Research finds current models underestimate the…
June 3, 2019 – May 20, 2020 On May 17, 2020, heavy rain began pouring over the Tri-Cities region of central Michigan and, after two…
Hurricane Harvey over North America in 2017 from GOES-16. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Credit: UW-Madison SSEC In almost every region of the…
Radioactive period following nuclear bomb tests changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites. Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have…
This image is an example of Level-2B Rayleigh wind velocity in meters per second over Europe on May 6, 2020, at 06:00 UTC. The image…
A new study shows that extreme, sometimes potentially fatal, mixtures of heat and humidity are emerging across the globe. This map shows documented instances, with…