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In the face of the growing climate crisis, researchers from a variety of fields are focusing their efforts on understanding how different climate systems have altered and will continue to do so as climate change proceeds.

New York City is sinking under its own weight, posing a worsening flood risk to the city already facing extreme weather and sea level rise.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is working with cities to use visualizations to make urban heat island data more accessible. For Washington, D.C., this work led to a virtual reality experience.

Initial observations from a heat mapping initiative on a single day last summer showed temperatures in some parts of eastern Omaha were an average of 9.4 degrees higher than others.

ENSO Blog: How the Pattern of Trends Across the Tropical Pacific Ocean Is Critical for Understanding the Future Climate and Changes in El Niño and La Niña

NOAA, USDOT, and other agencies are launching a pilot program to develop methods for integrating equity into planning decisions regarding urban flooding.

RENO — The impacts of climate change have been acute in California and Nevada, with most of the last two decades spent in extended drought conditions and 2021 wildfires producing Reno’s worst recorded air quality in...

DRI is partnering with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to build climate resiliency through the California Nevada Adaptation Program (CNAP)...

Major hurricanes, intense wildfires, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses, deep sea discoveries, and more made 2022 an eventful year for NOAA Research. As we enter the final days of the year, we’re taking a look back at some of our biggest research stories from the last 12 months. Preparing the nation for the impacts of climate change  People across the country are feeling the impacts of climate change through severe droughts, wildfires, catastrophic flooding, major...

As the dust settles on COP27, climate change news abounds. So to help environmental journalists find and report stories on the beat, SEJ Publications continues to expand its growing Climate Change Resource Guide. Explore dozens of new information sources in the just-added Disaster and Extreme Weather section. Plus, hundreds of other topical resources and more in the