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NOAA and the State Department sign agreement to support vulnerable small island communities

September 28, 2021

NOAA has signed an agreement with the State Department to support an island-led initiative to cope with climate change impacts.

U. S. Climate Resilience Toolkit launches new section for the Northern Great Plains

September 28, 2021

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit has launched a new Northern Great Plains Region section. It offers information on the impacts of climate change across the Northern Great Plains, and how people can build resilience.

Research presents new links between major climate patterns in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans

September 28, 2021

The Pacific’s El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern interacts with a climate pattern in the Indian Ocean. New research sheds light on this connection.

ENSO and Climate Change: What does the new IPCC report say?

Tom Di Liberto | September 27, 2021

The latest IPCC report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change covers pretty much everything you can think of, including ENSO. So what were its conclusions? Our ENSO Bloggers walk us through the report's conclusions and what they mean.

Even small additional increases in greenhouse gases will make decades-long "megadroughts" in the Southwest more common

Michon Scott, Rebecca Lindsey | September 27, 2021

But lower emissions will reduce the intensity of the driest years of megadrought events.

NOAA-led drought task force concludes current Southwest drought is a preview of coming attractions

Rebecca Lindsey | September 27, 2021

By 2030, the combination of extreme heat and atmospheric dryness that made the ongoing drought so extreme is likely to return more than once a decade. Such record-low precipitation, however, is likely to remain rare.

August 2021 global climate summary

Rebecca Lindsey | September 15, 2021

It was the sixth-warmest August on record for the globe. It's very likely that the year will wind up among the 10 warmest years on record.

Dry future likely unavoidable for Southwest, but reducing greenhouse gases can still help

September 14, 2021

New research finds that, although megadroughts in the southwestern United States may be unavoidable, reducing greenhouse gas emissions can mitigate conditions.

Research links extreme cold weather in the United States to Arctic warming

September 14, 2021

Accelerated Arctic warming may drive extreme winter weather in the United States, according to new research.

Co-occurring California droughts and northeast Pacific marine heatwaves to become dramatically more frequent, study says

September 14, 2021

Northeast Pacific heatwaves and extreme California droughts are likely to strike at the same time much more often by the end of the 21st century, a new study says.

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