A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States—a familiar story for the past two decades.

Correcting for the double-ITCZ bias, a persistent error in many climate models, reveals that future U.S. Southwest winters will be drier than expected

Forecasts predicting where plants and animals will inhabit over time rely primarily on information about their current climate associations, but that only plays a partial role. 

A University of Oklahoma-led interdisciplinary study on a decade-long experiment (1997-2009) at the University of Minnesota found that lower nitrogen levels in soil promoted release of carbon dioxide from soils under high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and could therefore contribute to furthering rising atmospheric greenhouse gases and climate change.

The vast majority of nutrients and sediment washed into streams flowing into the Chesapeake Bay are picked up by deluges from severe storms that occur on relatively few days of the year. 

Coral reefs are one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet supporting an estimated 25% of all marine species. 

The Norwegian research organisation SINTEF will investigate whether rare earth element minerals contribute to pollution in costal areas.

Clear skies over the Rocky Mountains helped a temperature inversion to form, which in turn led to cloud-filled valleys.

The planet outdid itself last month, as November 2020 ranked second hottest on record, overtaking November 2019 for the No. 2 spot.

This may be the first time data collected using uncrewed surface vehicles were used to help produce an annual estimate of abundance for a commercial fish stock.