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A new study has found a link between red tides and dead zones along Florida’s west coast. When harmful algal blooms strike in early summer and persist into autumn, low-oxygen dead zones are also likely.

New climate modeling indicates an increase in flash flooding across most of the United States. Heavy rainfall events will likely cause more frequent and stronger flash floods by the end of the century.

Global warming will change Alaska’s precipitation. A new study projects changes in all warming scenarios, with the increases in both temperature and precipitation.

NOAA and community partners will map heat inequities in 14 communities across the United States, and two international cities during the summer of 2022.

Across the southern tier, the odds are tilted towards a warmer-than-average May.

Our bloggers explain why climate forecasters keep using that word...and how it doesn't mean what you think it means.

Encouragement from teachers and professors eventually drew a shy student out of the classroom and into the world of ocean science.

Evaporative demand is the amount of water that the atmosphere can absorb from the planet’s surface—atmospheric thirst. When it rises, so does the risk of drought and wildfire. A new study has found increases in evaporative demand across most of the contiguous United States, especially in the Rio Grande and Lower Colorado River basins.

NOAA has released the first report in a monograph series on climate adaptation, titled “Our Changing Precipitation: A Conversation on the Science of Precipitation and Planning for the Future.” The report synthesizes information, experiences, and lessons learned.

For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has included a comparison of NOAA’s atmospheric emission estimates of four hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to its own inventory-based estimates. The information is available in the just-released “U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks.”