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Topic: Global warming

Sunset over the ocean.

Story map: In Hot Water: Ocean Heat and Our Warming World offsite link offsite link

January 17, 2022

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Sunset over the ocean.

Free diver from the Puget Sound Restoration Fund collects sugar kelp to propagate at NOAA Fisheries' Manchester Research Station.

Video: Our climate & our fisheries — join the conversation

January 25, 2022

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Free diver from the Puget Sound Restoration Fund collects sugar kelp to propagate at NOAA Fisheries' Manchester Research Station.

Aerial image of the Amazon River.

Deforestation, warming flip part of Amazon forest from carbon dioxide 'sink' to source

July 14, 2021

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carbon capture and storage

Aerial image of the Amazon River.

GOES-East satellite image of Hurricane Florence making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018

Warming may increase the risk of rapidly intensifying hurricanes along the East Coast

May 28, 2019

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climate impacts

GOES-East satellite image of Hurricane Florence making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018

An Arctic sunrise.

2016 Arctic heat would have been virtually impossible without global warming

May 10, 2018

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Motorists being warned of severe drought conditions with electronic road signs along U.S. Highway 50 in Sacramento, California. Taken August 5, 2015.

Federal climate science report for U.S. released

November 3, 2017

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climate science

Motorists being warned of severe drought conditions with electronic road signs along U.S. Highway 50 in Sacramento, California. Taken August 5, 2015.

A fierce Nor’easter sprawls across the U.S. Northeast on January 27, 2015, in this Suomi NPP nighttime satellite image.

Are record snowstorms proof that global warming isn’t happening?

January 30, 2017

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A fierce Nor’easter sprawls across the U.S. Northeast on January 27, 2015, in this Suomi NPP nighttime satellite image.

An aurora and the Milky Way over South Pole Station in Antarctica on June 23, 2009.

4 ways the ozone hole is related to global warming, and 1 way it isn’t

October 20, 2016

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An aurora and the Milky Way over South Pole Station in Antarctica on June 23, 2009.

Aerial photo on the left of Denham Springs, Louisiana at the height of the flooding on August 15, 2016, collected by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey at sites identified by NOAA’s National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The photo on the right was taken three days later when flood waters had receded.

Global warming increased risk, intensity of Louisiana's extreme rain event

September 7, 2016

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Aerial photo on the left of Denham Springs, Louisiana at the height of the flooding on August 15, 2016, collected by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey at sites identified by NOAA’s National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The photo on the right was taken three days later when flood waters had receded.

Redoubt Volcano viewed from the northwest following the April 4, 2009 eruption. Steam rises from the summit crater, pyroclastic flow and surge deposits drape the flanks, and lahar deposits cover the Drift River Valley. Credit: R. G. McGimsey, USGS.

Which emits more carbon dioxide: Volcanoes or human activities?

June 21, 2016

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Redoubt Volcano viewed from the northwest following the April 4, 2009 eruption. Steam rises from the summit crater, pyroclastic flow and surge deposits drape the flanks, and lahar deposits cover the Drift River Valley. Credit: R. G. McGimsey, USGS.

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