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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. It's 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-than-average seawater in the central Pacific Ocean – is one of the main drivers of weather in the...
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 drought. Though the impact is most intense in the summer months, when rain is sparse and temperatures ...