The morning of September 29, 2009, was one Mase Akapo will never forget. Akapo is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and one of his jobs is to help prepare the islands for natural disasters. At 6:48...

I'd be remiss in not mentioning that my freelance colleague Harvey Leifert is blogging climate topics from AGU for our sister site Nature Reports Climate Change, here. And don't miss their coverage of the Copenhagen negotiations; the site's editor...

Chalk up another piece of dire news for the Arctic in a globally warmed future. Researchers have identified a previously unknown climate feedback effect suggesting that, as vegetation creeps northward, it will accelerate warming trends already in...

Hi, you're dividing cubic kilometers by square kilometers, so that's not right, but Famiglietti specifically said at the press conference today that he wasn't going to provide numbers for a potential water table drop - saying that media would...

So that (31/154,000) works out to an avg .0002 km, or .2m, or 20 cm, or almost 8" drop in water level? Not surprising - but very cool, that they can measure it. p.s. arithmetic not guaranteed.