In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

STORY: A powerful atmospheric river pounded Washington state and the Pacific Northwest this week, killing at least two people ...

Atmospheric ... river in North America and has a watershed that reaches 32 states, according to the national park service. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, atmospheric ...

Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement, which scientists said would prevent cascading and worsening impacts ...

New research examines how much global warming has sapped the Colorado River since 2000 ... effects of increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have become increasingly apparent over ...

This shift may seem small, but the global impacts are ... average flow of the Mississippi River, resulting in rain and snow. For the West Coast of the U.S., atmospheric rivers provide at least ...

Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, is also routinely flared into the atmosphere at oil fields in the U.S., Middle East, Russia and elsewhere, contributing to global warming.

The Network for Greening the Financial System painted a dire picture of the impact of global warming on the world economy, noting that its worst-case scenario foresees four times as much damage as ...

Meteorologists monitor them, but the ability to predict exactly how an atmospheric river might behave based on its underlying ... Atmospheric rivers are an essential element of the global climate, and ...

Among the global tipping points are the Amazon rainforest and the large-scale Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Further warming ... would affect the atmospheric water cycle ...

Demographic growth has been driven by urban sprawl in river valleys and coastal plains ... also paying for 30 years of climate inaction. Global warming is boosting these storm episodes.