Image of the Day: A Village Forced to Move by Rising Seas
The villagers of Vunidogoloa on Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island, know first hand how impactful sea level rise from manmade climate change can be on daily life. In an article from Alternet, it is explained that the Fijians are currently in the process of relocating their seaside village — which has been disturbed by rising seas, erosion, … Read More
Image of the Day: The Wildfires that Continue to Burn
A view of the numerous fires that continued to rage throughout the northwestern United States as of September 17, 2012 taken from NASA’s Aqua satellite. You can also monitor and obtain stats in on the blazes in real-time using Climate Central’s new interactive wildfires map. Wildfires such as these have been burning throughout the Western U.S. … Read More
Image of the Day: Avalanche Lilies on Mount Rainier
Avalanche liliies on Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in Washington state. Elinore Theobald is a researcher at the University of Washington and, as reported in the Seatle Times, is studying these lilies and how biological interactions between them and other species respond to a changing climate. Her research takes place on the mountain where she… Read More
Six Images You Need to See to Understand the Drought
This drought developed due to a pronounced lack of rainfall, coupled with several unusual heat waves that struck during the spring and summer and helped to rapidly intensify the drought conditions. As you can see from this arresting image of the Morse Reservoir in Indiana (H/T @Mikeseidel), rainfall has not exactly kept pace with evaporation driven… Read More
Oklahoma Is OK if You Like Sizzling Temperatures
Tulsa also reached 112 deg F on Thursday, short of its all-time high temperature record of 115 deg F. During the past week, Tulsa has twice had a low temperature of 88 deg F, which is the warmest overnight low temperature on record there.… Read More
Cities Across U.S. Bore Brunt of Record-Setting July Heat
Of all the areas that have been hammered by the intense heat, the Mississippi Ozarks and southeast Kansas may take the prize for enduring the worst of it, at least during the past two weeks, when a brutal combination of high heat and a pronounced lack of rainfall took hold.… Read More
Stubborn 2012 Heat Wave Roasts Eight States
Through the end of June, the South has had the most extreme weather during this period since the Climate Extremes Index began in 1910, with 56.86 percent of the region affected by extreme weather.… Read More
Extreme Heat Continues to Plague South Central States
According to the National Weather Service, Tulsa, OK likely set a record on Monday for the warmest overnight low temperature since records began there, as the temperature failed to drop below a toasty 88°F through this Monday morning.… Read More
