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January 2017 saw hot summertime temperatures dominate across eastern Australia.

La Niña has ended. Our blogger covers what happened last month and what forecasters think is in store for the next few months.

Springtime melting and retreating sea ice allowed more sunlight to reach the upper layers of the ocean, stimulating widespread blooms of algae and other tiny marine plants which form the base of the marine food chain: a sign of the rapid changes occurring in a warming Arctic.

Just a few days ago, on January 26th, 2017, we saw something in the U.S. climate that we hadn’t seen since March 2011.

The oyster hatchery industry on the U.S. West Coast nearly collapsed when they were caught off guard by increasing acidity in the coastal waters. In Maine, an oyster grower is testing whether new NOAA-funded technology can prevent a repeat on the East Coast.

Tremendous rain and snow batter California during the month of January.

Ángel Muñoz, a climate scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, explains what can happen when the influence of ENSO combines with the influences of other climate phenomena.

New research links warm ocean conditions in the North Pacific to the elevated levels of a natural toxin in shellfish along the U.S. West Coast.

In 2016, the annual global temperature reached a record high for the third year in a row. How did this happen, and how unusual is it?

2016 was the third year in a row that global average surface temperature set a new record, and the fifth time the record has been broken since the start of the twenty-first century. This animation shows the yearly history of Earth's temperature since the modern record began in 1880.