This coupling of the atmosphere and ocean alters atmospheric circulation and jet streams in ways that intensify rainfall in some regions and bring drought to others.

NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists are teaming up to test remote sensing technology for use in oil spill response.

Ice sheet’s demise poses the biggest threat for sea-level rise this century

For decades, climate change has had detrimental impacts on Pacific salmon populations. Spawning streams are overheating and droughts are drying up salmon habitats entirely, impacting many food webs from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges to the Pacific Ocean.

Soils across western Washington and southern British Columbia were saturated for much of the season.

According to a new report from NOAA Fisheries, the U.S. South Atlantic marine ecosystem is showing signs of chronic stress and changing ocean conditions, in addition to pressure from a growing coastal population.

Climate change is prompting more wasting disease, but it also hurting the root system of these grasses.

It’s easy to say “just plant more trees” to mitigate air pollution. But how? Where? And what kind?

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of plant and animal species will go extinct as a direct result of the rapidly changing climate.

More than half of nation was in drought by the end of November