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NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card documents the numerous ways that climate change continues to fundamentally alter this once reliably-frozen region, as increasing heat and the loss of ice drive its transformation into a warmer, less frozen and more uncertain future.
This year’s Arctic Report Card is the 16th annual volume of o
Climate disasters mark 2020
A record number of Atlantic hurricanes and western wildfires, devastating floods in Asia and Africa and a hot, melting Arctic made 2020 not just a disastrous year, but a year of disasters.
The average annual land surface air temperature 60 degrees north of Earth’s equator for October 2019-September 2020 was the second highest on record since at least 1900.
This year was the fifth consecutive Atlantic hurricane season to feature at least one Category 5 hurricane and wildfires claimed more than 8.2 million acres of land in the United States.
This combination of satellite images provided by the National Hurricane Center shows 30 hurricanes which occurred during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather and climate related disasters. From the most named storms in the Atlantic with a record number of them intensifying rapidly to the largest area of the western U.S. states burned by wildf