Drought conditions remain dire in the West, boosting the U.S. total burned area to nearly 2.5 million acres.
Climate Impacts
High-tide "nuisance flooding" has increased between 300 and 925 percent since the 1960s as a result of sea level rise. In this Q&A, Billy Sweet and John Marra explain the changes and offer projections for the remainder of the 2015-16 monitoring year.
For three days in 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off the only road to Port Fourchon. Officials had to decide: did the risk of future flooding justify the cost of raising the roadway out of the Gulf's rising waters?
Climate change is expected to intensify fire-friendly weather conditions across the US and to lengthen the fire season.
Late July’s stupefying heat indexes in southwest Iran
August 14, 2015
NOAA is helping the CDC build a new heat-health information system to help protect Americans from sweltering summers.
Record-setting bloom of toxic algae in North Pacific
August 6, 2015