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Millions of Americans have been enveloped in throat-scratching smog, have lost their homes and livelihoods in catastrophic floods, and have been facing extreme heat bubbles that have left people collapsing and even dying. Meanwhile, Republicans are working even harder to defund efforts to stop climate change. While most of the…

On July 3, 2023, the Earth experienced its hottest day ever recorded. The average global temperature was measured to be 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine. This temperature was recorded two meters above the Earth’s surface. This…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. PARIS: Monday was the world's hottest day on record, exceeding an average of 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time, according to initial measurements taken on Tuesday by US meteorologists. The average daily air temperature on the planet's surface…

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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could be wasted because state highway and bridge projects are using an outdated government precipitation model to determine future flood risk, according to a new report from First Street Foundation, a nonprofit climate risk research…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…