2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century. Because the record is global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth warmest year on record. Some places had record-high temperatures, and we saw record droughts, floods and fires around the globe. Credits: … [continued]
A new paper has emerged with fresh data from NASA providing a visual of Antarctica’s rapidly melting ice.
The COVID-19 crisis is compounding risks for U.S. communities still contending with past extreme weather and climate-related disasters and bracing for future disasters. The recovery could likely be compounded by a string of extreme weather events starting this spring, continuing towards the end of summer when wildfire season peaks along with extreme heat and drought conditions, lasting well into the fall through the end of hurricane season.
A climate change study released just this month by a team of researchers led by Dr. Raymond Bradley and Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst claims that temperatures in the Northeast are increasing faster than in other parts of the United States and most of the rest of the world.
