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News Release The White House Today, the Biden administration is launching a whole-of-government initiative to deliver accessible and actionable information to

A Penn State-led research team is measuring the rapid changes in greenhouse gas emissions that resulted from cities implementing stay-at-home measures

Scientific evidence in new U.N. report stresses that climate change is now unprecedented and unavoidable with new research enabling smarter decision-making.

La Niña is a natural climate cycle marked by cooler-than-average sea water in the central Pacific Ocean. Its one of the main drivers of weather in the U.S. and around the world, especially during the late fall, winter and early spring. La Niña can also act to put a damper on rain across much of the Southwest. The La Niña climate pattern is forecast to return this fall and last through the winter of 2021-22, federal forecasters reported Thursday. La Niña – a natural cycle marked by cooler-...

By Hannah Gard, CNN Skiers and snowboarders pray for snow so they can shred the slopes. Climatologists and hydrologists have an entirely different and more critical reason to cross their fingers for the “white gold.” The West’s historic drought has many impacts, including water shortages, more severe wildfire seasons and unprecedented heat waves, to name a few. Intense droughts are a result of many factors, one of which scientists have recently began to analyze with more scrutiny: snow dr...

NOAA scientists and priorities are well reflected in several of the first Ocean Decade actions endorsed and announced this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC). The announcement on World Ocean Day of more than 60 actions is the first batch of UN Decade action endorsements and is meant to encourage greater participation, collaboration and co-development from around the world.  The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development...

Studies have found extreme heat disproportionately affects people of color. A NOAA campaign plans to map the problem and suggest solutions.

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Droughts, such as the one impacting Devils Punchbowl on the northern slope of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, have increased in duration and severity over the past... view more  Credit: Amir AghaKouchak / UCI Irvine, Calif., May 17, 2021 -- Greenhouse gases and aerosol pollution emitted by human activities are responsible for increases in the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts around the world, according to researchers at the University of Ca...

April 6, 2021 Kuo-Nan Liou, a UCLA distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and the founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), died March 20 at his home in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 77. “Kuo-Nan was a great scientist and an outstanding leader, who had a profound impact on science and on UCLA. We will miss him greatly,” said Miguel Garcia-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences. A former chair ...