The fact that temperatures over the country's midsection are rising, too, may be more than coincidence.The hotter the surface temperature, which has been the…
On March 11, 2013, NASA's TRMM satellite twice flew above weakening tropical cyclone Sandra as it was passing to the west of New Caledonia in the southern…
The finding contradicts a commonly held belief regarding the region – that a dry winter rainy season is generally followed by a wet summer season, and vice…
The team found that anticipated conversion to sugarcane plantations could lead to a 1 degree Celsius decrease in temperature during the growing season, to be…
Even when both poles of the planet undergo ozone losses during the winter, the Arctic’s ozone depletion tends to be milder and shorter-lived than the…
A delay in the summer monsoon rains that fall over the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico is expected in the coming decades according to a new…
In the most comprehensive assessment yet of the risk of tropical forest dieback due to climate change, the results have important implications for the future…
An international team of authors from 17 institutions in seven countries, including the Woods Hole Research Center, published a study in the journal Nature…
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Cyclone Sandra's cloud top…
Cornell and Rutgers researchers report in the March issue of Oceanography that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice – attributed to greenhouse warming…
With data from 73 ice and sediment core monitoring sites around the world, scientists have reconstructed Earth's temperature history back to the end of the…
NASA's TRMM satellite captured a look at the rainfall rates within low pressure System 92P on March 7 at 0023 UTC (March 6 at 7:23 p.m. EST), just hours before…
The 108-foot Elwha Dam was built in 1910, and after decades of debate it was finally dismantled last year. Roughly a third of the 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam…
Rapid warming followed by equally rapid coolingGlobal climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeFebruary temperatures (preliminary)Global composite…
Knowing when Antarctica's topography started shifting from a flat landscape to one with glaciers, fjords and mountains is important for modeling how the…
Scientists are using ever more complex models running on ever more powerful computers to simulate the earth’s climate. But new research suggests that basic…
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