Firings at NOAA Risk Lives and Economy, Former Agency Heads Warn March 4, 2025 By Seth Borenstein The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause...
UCLA and NOAA: Climate Change Baked Western US Despite the Rainfall November 8, 2024 By Don Jergler Even with all the storms the Western U.S. received in the last two years, climate change is baking the region....
World Meteorological Organization Says 2023 Will Easily Break Climate Records December 29, 2023 By Don Jergler With a few days left to go until next year, it can be said that 2023 has officially shattered climate...
Texas Dock Company to Pay $1 Million Over Clean Water Act Violation June 20, 2022 United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC a Texas company, was sentenced...
Study Links Cleaner Air to More Atlantic Hurricanes May 13, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found. The National...
Forecast Calls for High Risk of Wildfires in Central Oregon May 10, 2022 As summer approaches forecasters say Central Oregon has the highest fire risk of anywhere in the state. Oregon Public Broadcasting...
Climate Experts Say Much of Northwest May Stay Drought-Stricken March 8, 2022 Climate experts from Oregon, Washington and Idaho say most of the Northwest remains locked in drought and that the region...
Climate Change Could Push Flood Losses in U.S. to $40B by 2050 February 17, 2022 By Don Jergler Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by...
NASA: Earth’s Temperature in 2021 Was 1.5 Degrees F Above Baseline February 3, 2022 By Don Jergler Earth’s global average surface temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline...
U.S. Heatwave ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change, Scientists Say July 15, 2021 By Don Jergler An international group of 27 climate scientists have concluded that the recent heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was “virtually...