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Climate

Climate

Climate plays an important role in where plants, animals, and humans can thrive. As the global climate changes, it threatens the safety and well-being of our communities, our economy, and our natural heritage. The USGS investigates the causes and consequences of climate change and helps people create strategies to navigate this global crisis. 

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Landsat 7 image of glacier retreat in Patagonia, 2017
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Climate

Climate

Climate plays an important role in where plants, animals, and humans can thrive. As the global climate changes, it threatens the safety and well-being of our communities, our economy, and our natural heritage. The USGS investigates the causes and consequences of climate change and helps people create strategies to navigate this global crisis. 

Climate 101
Climate Impacts on Plants and Animals
Coasts, Storms, and Sea Level Rise
Droughts and Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Storage
Paleoclimate
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Can oceans store more CO2 to help with climate change?

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Physiological Analysis of Eleutherodactylus Specimens in West-Central Puerto Rico, 2021-2022

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A sediment core extracted from a salt marsh at the National Park Service’s Herring River, at the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Sediment core from a salt marsh in Massachusetts

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A salt marsh along the Herring River.

Salt marsh along the Herring River

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A salt marsh along the Herring River in Massachusetts.

Salt marsh along the Herring River

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Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming

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Six metal poles support heating lamps several feet above the tropical floor. Tropical forest vegetation surrounds the structure

Does the USGS monitor global warming?

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Smoky Mountain fires on the night of Nov. 28, 2016

Will global warming produce more frequent and more intense wildfires?

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WERC High Sierra's

What is the difference between global warming and climate change?

Presentations and Events

PubTalk 5/2008 — Global Warming

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Effects of feeding and habitat on resting metabolic rates of the Pacific walrus

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Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers: an ecosystem level manipulation of warming and elevated carbon dioxide

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Does the USGS monitor global warming?

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Sources of global warming in upper ocean temperature during El Niño

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Global-scale changes to extreme ocean wave events due to anthropogenic warming

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Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming

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[Book review] Climate change for the next generation: Global Warming, by Jenny Tesar

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Sources of global warming of the upper ocean on decadal period scales

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Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers

Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers: an ecosystem level manipulation of warming and elevated carbon dioxide- Glenn Guntenspergen

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Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

Data Release
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Data compilation of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements from global warming experiments from 1994-2014

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Divergent surface and total soil moisture projections under global warming

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Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events

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Latitudinal variation in carbon storage can help predict changes in swamps affected by global warming

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Assessing environmental change associated with early Eocene hyperthermals in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA

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Continuously amplified warming in the Alaskan Arctic: Implications for estimating global warming hiatus

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Closing the gap between science and management of cold-water refuges in rivers and streams

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Integrating modeling and empirical approaches to improve predictions of tropical forest responses to global warming

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The greenhouse gas flux and potential global warming feedbacks of a northern macrotidal and microtidal salt marsh

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Thermal regime of permafrost in Alaska and predicted global warming