Recent years have brought unusually large and damaging wildfires to the Pacific Northwest – from the Carlton Complex Fire in 2014 that was the largest in Washington’s history, to the 2017 fire season in Oregon, to the 2018 Maple Fire, when normally sodden rainforests on the Olympic Peninsula were ablaze. 

Previous research studies have revealed how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may impact the rest of Earth’s climate over seasons, years and even longer.

Cracks in the Arctic sea ice are important for satellite-based measurements of the ice’s thickness.

New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe – including Paris, Madrid and Rome.

Researchers can better quantify the range of possible impacts from landfalling storms.

The latest edition of the JRC’s Global Energy and Climate Outlook (GECO), identifies four technological dynamics in the energy sector that have the power to limit global warming to below 2°C if implemented simultaneously.

As part of the Paris Agreement countries must submit revised national climate plans in five year cycles.

Scientists record first reported heatwave at Antarctica’s Casey research station.

Extreme weather events – such as severe drought, storms, and heat waves – have been forecast to become more commonplace and are already starting to occur.

An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the climate history of Antarctica.