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Climate Impacts
Department:December 29, 2016As cold air filtered into the United States over the Great Lakes, the lake effect snow machine turned on burying nearby locations.
Department:December 22, 2016Warming sea surface temperatures from climate change are pushing populations of the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) farther north than ever before.
Department:December 21, 2016How does La Niña and the jet stream impact winter conditions in the United States?
Department:November 30, 2016While the U.S. was observing Thanksgiving last week, Costa Rica was facing the first landfalling hurricane on record for the Central American country.
Department:November 15, 2016Multi-year drought in California has been joined this summer and fall by extreme and exceptional drought across the Southeast and moderate to severe drought in parts of New England.
Department:November 14, 2016Blocked for decades by an impassable dam, 11.2 miles of prime habitat are now open to endangered Caifornia coho salmon. Access to the upper stream elevations will make the salmon and steelhead trout that migrate into the Russian River watershed to spawn much more resilient to temperature and drought extremes.
Department:November 9, 2016Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution discusses the role of climate variation in the evolution of our ancestors.
Department:October 31, 2016The world's oldest mummies have been infected with a destructive black ooze. Climate change may be responsible.
Department:October 6, 2016For New Englanders, the saying “as American as apple pie” may as well be “as New England as lobster,”
Department:September 16, 2016The Northwest Passage across the Canadian Arctic opened once again in 2016 as sea ice reached its second lowest extent on record.
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