Estimates of temperature variations near the earth's surface are based on thermometer readings taken daily at thousands of land stations and on board thousands of ships. Dating back into the late ...

Global temperatures in 2025 did not quite reach the heights of 2024, thanks to the cooling influence of the natural La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific, new data from the European Copernicus ...

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New research published in BioScience reveals that climate change is rapidly emerging as a third major threat to Earth's wild animals, joining habitat alteration and overexploitation in what scientists ...

Global sea surface temperatures are currently the fourth highest ever recorded for this time of year, raising renewed concerns among climate scientists as a developing El Niño event threatens to push ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...

John M. Wallace (Chair) is professor of atmospheric sciences and co-director of the University of Washington Program on the Environment. From 1981–98 he served as director of the (University of ...