Late last month, Typhoon Nida was traveling toward Hong Kong – while at the same time preventing people from sharing the journey. Hundreds of flights were cancelled. Bus, tram, and ferry routes, all suspended. Everyone was sort of holding in place – and so was the air. Ginger Macqueen noticed[…]

It wasn’t just that the water was green. It was vivid green – looking a little like anti-freeze, definitely like Kool-Aid. Fish turned up dead. Crabs, too. And along the road where people usually toss crab nets into the water, a dead gator had beached itself, its light belly a little[…]

Wait, what? That Massachusetts? The one in traditionally green New England? Yep. No mistake. Thousands of miles from the well-publicized drought and fire-ravaged west, New England is struggling with serious dryness as well. In the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, our observer Ethan Markham grows garden veggies, salad mix, and[…]

Say you’re at brunch. The syrup bottle is poised over the side of pancakes you ordered “for the table.” You’re ready to do your best “Uncle Buck” impression. Pause for a second here and give thanks – because the production of that sweet sticky goodness is vulnerable to environmental conditions[…]

With a prediction that 2016 will be the warmest yet recorded, it’s a fair guess that this summer, it’s going to be a hot one. If you live in an urban area, you’re likely  to see “some people looking half dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head”[…]

Any recipe for agricultural success includes water. But what if that nurturing liquid becomes a destructive force? Here at #ISeeChange, we’ve frequently told you about our observers in the United States: from sea to shining sea, California to Delaware, Minnesota to Louisiana. But we’re also hearing from people overseas, in[…]

The dirt mounds were not a good sign. That’s what Sheila Scott thought as she surveyed her Los Angeles yard. Five mounds with a plug off to the side marred the small patch of grass she had preserved, a notch in the hill 4 feet wide and 12 feet long, where[…]

In the first three weeks of March, rains caused historic levels of flooding for Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. At almost 54 feet, the snaky Sabine River serving as the border between Texas and Louisiana hadn’t recorded waters this high in a century. Near Folsom, in the toe of Louisiana’s boot,[…]

We can’t help but sing “people get ready” around here, and not just because Curtis Mayfield has that sneaky-sweet-soulful voice. Spring has arrived, and it’s a key time for gathering observations about carbon dioxide. This spring of 2016 lands just after a major anomaly was recorded at NOAA’s Mauna Loa[…]