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CLIMATEWIRE | At a tiny airport in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, a weather station feeds precipitation data to a NOAA program that publishes the official precipitation estimates for most of the United States. NOAA’s precipitation estimates cover almost any U.S. location, and they are crucial to engineers and planners in…

Billions of dollars in federal funding from the Biden administration's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could be wasted because state highway and bridge projects are using an outdated government precipitation model to determine future flood risk, according to a new report from First Street Foundation, a nonprofit climate risk research…

Temperatures are already breaking records this year: Last month was the warmest May for the world’s oceans since record-keeping began in 1850, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average ocean temperature throughout May was 0.85 degree Celsius higher than normal for the month. For the planet as…

WASHINGTON — A bill introduced June 9 by a group of Republican House members would turn the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into an independent agency, but keep its commercial space responsibilities in the Commerce Department. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act of 2023, introduced by Rep. Frank Lucas…

The Advanced Baseline Imager on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-East showed smoke from wildfires in Quebec moving offshore over the Atlantic Ocean on June 9. Credit: Aerosol Watch SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s is closely tracking smoke from the Canadian wildfires…

Countries are racing to prepare for extreme weather later this year as the world tips into an El Nino — a natural climate phenomenon that fuels tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in parts of the Americas and elsewhere. On Thursday, the U.S. National Oceanic…

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others. This El Nino started earlier than usual, which puts 2023 in the running for warmest year on record...Read…

ADVERTISEMENT NOAA announces $2.6 billion to protect coastal communities by Patrick Hilsman Washington DC (UPI) Jun 6, 2023 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a new $2.6 billion initiative to protect coastal communities. The initiative will use funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, as part of the Biden…

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. David Janka stands at the helm of the Auklet, an 18-meter charter boat that’s traveled Alaska’s waters longer than the region has been an American state. It’s the peak…

This article is republished from The Conversation. Brazil’s coastal waters teem with a rich array of species that paint a living tapestry beneath the waves. This underwater world is particularly special because many of its species are endemic – they are found nowhere else on Earth. The southwestern Atlantic is…