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As we go into the final days of November, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s GOES-East satellite is busy keeping a watchful eye on what's now the 17th storm of the season. It's been quite the wild ride lately after what started off as a quieter 2024 hurricane season…

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service recent announced vessel speed restrictions off the US East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. In an Instagram post , NMFS said: “Starting Friday, November 1, most vessels 65 feet or longer must slow to 10 knots or less in North Atlantic right…

In 2023, more than three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs were exposed to ocean temperatures that can cause coral bleaching, researchers with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report. Roughly 90% of the excess heat from anthropogenic climate change is absorbed by the oceans, making them hotter now…

The Summary FEMA and NOAA have become politicized as the frequency and severity of natural disasters have increased. Their futures hang in the balance of the election. Project 2025, a conservative policy road map, recommends that NOAA be “broken up and downsized” and that much of the burden for disaster…

Hurricane Milton began as a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday 5th October. It very rapidly intensified to tropical storm status, before undergoing explosive intensification to a high category 5 between Sunday 6th and Monday 7th, as it moved southeast towards the Yucatan Peninsula ( NOAA, 2024…

Experts told representatives Wednesday that supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve weather models and predictions is crucial to saving lives and lowering recovery costs. The U.S. was hit by 28 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2023, making the costs related to helping communities recover…

Scientists say Great Barrier Reef among areas threatened by climate change and El Nino PUBLISHED : 5 Mar 2024 at 21:36 Dead table corals killed by bleaching are seen on Zenith Reef, on the northern Great Barrier Reef in Australia, in November 2016. (Photo: Greg Torda/Courtesy of ARC Centre of…

Satellogic operates a constellation of 36 Earth-imaging satellites. Credit: Satellogic TAMPA, Fla. — Satellogic has received a remote sensing license in the United States, the Earth observation operator announced Nov. 21 as it moves operations to the country from Uruguay in search of more government business. The National Oceanic and…

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration — NOAA — reports the U.S. has seen 25 separate weather or climate "disasters" — events causing damage or losses exceeding $1 billion — so far this year, the highest number since the agency began tracking such events 43 years ago. In a…

People swear by farmers’ almanacs. Every autumn these publications arrive with their eclectic mix of miscellany and lore. They also deliver a region-by-region weather forecast for an entire year, notably the coming winter, which everyone from farmers to city dwellers can plan their businesses and lives around. There are actually…