How can snow cover on the Himalayas influence the species that thrive in the ocean a thousand kilometers away?

Aerial photographs taken before and after the storm showed researches the extent of forest canopy damage.

Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows.

It is well-established that the accumulation of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere contributes to climate change. 

Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released today.

NOAA scientists now turning their attention to Las Vegas and Los Angeles

Texas A&M climate expert Andrew Dessler says climate change is playing a big role in the Western fires, and Texas itself is getting much hotter.

Climate change will increase the burden of crop diseases in some parts of the world and reduce it in others, new research suggests.

The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century. 

Oregon State University scientists and collaborators from throughout the West say that thinning and prescribed burning are crucial parts of adaptive management for seasonally dry, fire-dependent forests such as those east of the Cascade crest.