A new NOAA nationwide analysis shows that between 1996 and 2011, 64,975 square miles in coastal regions–an area larger than the state of…
The work was published Aug. 12 in the International Journal of Climatology in an article titled “Creating a topoclimatic daily air temperature dataset for the…
Hurricane Karina formed on August 13, 2014 off the Mexican coast. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite passed directly above the center of…
Tropical cyclones are usually a couple of hundred miles in diameter. The average size of a tropical cyclone is around 304 nautical miles (350 miles/600 km) in…
In an article published in the “Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology”, Waseda Department of Earth Sciences researchers (lead author Mizuki Murakami) conclude…
One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found – a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail – has found its…
Local surface uplift can block rivers, particularly in mountainous regions. The impounded water, however, always finds its way downstream, often cutting a…
In a paper published in Science, the researchers report that about one quarter of the global glacier mass loss during the period of 1851 to 2010 is…
Julio is far enough away from Hawaii so that there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
For the first time, an international team of scientists provide a comprehensive estimate on the full range of Antarctica’s potential contribution to global sea…
Iselle was once a rather powerful category 4 hurricane in the East Pacific with sustained winds estimated at 120 knots (~138 mph) by the National Hurricane…
NASA's Terra satellite passed over Julio and saw that the bulk of the clouds and precipitation were being pushed to the34 north of the center as the storm…
“Eastern hemlock trees have died throughout much of their range due to the hemlock woolly adelgid, an exotic invasive insect,” said Steven Brantley, a…
Now that people are more concerned than ever about what is happening at the poles, a new study confirms that snow has thinned significantly in the Arctic,…
Man-made global warming can explain a gradual increase in periods of severe heat, but the observed change in the magnitude and duration of some events is not…
“We have been building models and there are now robust contradictions,” says Liu, a professor in the UW-Madison Center for Climatic Research. “Data from…
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