Hurricane Matthew wasn’t an ordinary storm. It killed more than a thousand people in Haiti and at least 20 in the U.S. Its trail of widespread devastation was shocking and it will take the affected regions time to recover. But while 1.5 million people were being asked by Republican governors to head to safety for […]
By Alex Kirby In an unusually stark warning, a leading international scientific body said the Arctic climate is changing so fast that researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it said, are affecting the weather worldwide. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming […]
By Nika Knight Earth is the warmest it’s been in 100,000 years, a new reconstruction of historical temperature data finds, and with today’s level of fossil fuel emissions the planet is “locked into” eventually hitting its highest temperature mark in 2 million years. 2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according […]
By Erin Auel and Alison Cassady One of the most visible and immediate ways climate change has affected—and will continue to affect—Americans is through extreme weather exacerbated by rising global temperatures. Aerial image of flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Between 2005 and 2015, the annual average temperature in the U.S. exceeded […]
By Jeremy Deaton You might know the feeling—after months of encouraging news from your bathroom scale, you discover the device is broken. The outlook on your weight-loss goal is worse than you realized. Scientists just went through something similar, except instead of a scale, it was a system of satellites, and instead of your winter […]
August was the 16th consecutive record warm-month, the longest ever recorded, with average temperatures 1.66 F above the 20th century average and 0.09 F warmer than last August. NASA Earth Observatory chart based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.Joshua Stevens National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data shows it was also the […]
Every state in the contiguous U.S. experienced above average temperatures between June and August, with California, Connecticut and Rhode Island recording their warmest summer ever. NOAA New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also reveal that although this year’s summer tied with 2006 as the fifth warmest on record, nights were the […]
An 80-mph Category 1 hurricane made landfall at in Florida late last night, causing heavy rains, widespread storm surge and power disruptions for more than 150,000 residents. GOES East shows Trop. Storm #Hermine crossing FL into GA early this AM. See more imagery at https://t.co/lZx8etqXkB. pic.twitter.com/GfrjKOaId6 — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) September 2, 2016 This is […]
By Nadia Prupis Another day, another dire warning about the global climate emergency. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) top climate scientist announced Tuesday that the Earth is warming at a pace not seen in at least the past 1,000 years, making it “very unlikely” that global temperatures will stay below the 1.5 C […]
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