January’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming natural climate cooling patterns ...

By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

As the Los Angeles area begins cleaning up from devastating wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are worried ...

Climatologists monitor several indices, some ocean-based and some atmospheric, to provide a quick indication of the state of certain climate variables and climate indicators. To monitor the Pacific ...

Halfway through what the IPCC have dubbed the most consequential decade for climate action, what are the most pressing ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose the ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal in February 1943. The Japanese were placed on the ...