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2013 Arctic Report Card: Visual Highlights
Rotator Image: From reindeer to regional temperature patterns, from sea ice age to Greenland surface melt, the Arctic Report Card is a yearly assessment of the Arctic's physical and biological systems...
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What’s the Mystery Behind West Antarctica’s Disappearing Ice?
Why on Earth are climate scientists so interested in the West Antarctic ice sheet? This remote region of the seventh continent has been the subject of many recent research explorations--the results of...
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2013 State of the Climate: Humidity
Rotator Image: 2013 continued a trend of water vapor in the surface atmosphere increasing over land and ocean relative to the 1970s, while the atmosphere over land becomes less saturated. Category: How...
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With warming, plants are swallowing ponds in Alaskan Arctic
For most of the year, the Arctic tundra of Alaska's Barrow Peninsula is dominated by ice, snow, and silence. During the region's brief summer, however, the landscape comes alive with vegetation and...
View ArticleThis summer’s West Coast algal bloom was unusual. What would usual look like?
Tom Di Liberto explains how algae and other phytoplankton usually behave.Climate ImpactsObserving & PredictingExtreme Events2015 Algal BloomEvent TrackerNews and Features
View ArticleNorthwest Passage clear of ice again in 2016
The Northwest Passage across the Canadian Arctic opened once again in 2016 as sea ice reached its second lowest extent on record.Climate Impacts2016 Arctic melt seasonEvent TrackerNews and...
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Local group fortifying Chicago's urban forest and building city's climate...
Climate stressors in ChicagoChicago is at the center of one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the United States: around 10 million residents live in the region, in neighborhoods that range...
View ArticleSmog descends on India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017
Suffocating smog stifled communities across northern India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017.Climate ImpactsExtreme Events2017 Smog in India and PakistanEvent TrackerNews and FeaturesPublished Date:...
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In the coastal communities near the Bering Strait, a winter unlike the rest
Rotator Image: A lack of persistent sea ice in waters around the Bering Strait this winter disrupted travel, damaged roads and other infrastructure, and prevented traditional hunting and fishing in...
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2018 Arctic Report Card: Multi-year stretch of record and near-record warmth...
Human-caused climate change is transforming the Arctic, both physically and biologically. Driving this transformation is the rapid warming of land and ocean temperatures. According to the2018 Arctic...
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Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with a sea level rise expert about past and...
Rotator Image: On Tuesday, November 19, NOAA sea level rise expert William Sweet answered questions in a Climate.gov tweet chat about sea level rise and U.S. high-tide flooding. Category: Climate...
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Annual forecast challenge and other research highlight the complexity of sea...
Rotator Image: In 2015, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) invited grant proposals from sea ice and climate scientists looking to better understand and predict Arctic sea ice behavior, on timescales...
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Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with heat experts on mapping urban heat islands
Rotator Image: Join three heat experts to talk about how we map, monitor, and lessen the impacts of urban heat islands.Category: Climate Change & Global WarmingClimate ImpactsObserving &...
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A warm pool in the Indo-Pacific Ocean has almost doubled in size, changing...
Due to human-caused climate change, our planet’s ocean has been heating up at a rate of 0.06 degrees C (0.11 degrees F) per decade over the past century. But this warming isn’t uniform. In fact, recent...
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