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Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2022 during a media briefing at 11 a.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 12...Read More

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week confirmed the death of a male North Atlantic Right Whale calf near Morehead City, North Carolina. “Response teams recovered the carcass and conducted a necropsy,” according to NOAA. The calf was seen alive on January 3rd, 2023, when a member of…

NASA Image On India Stubble Burning: अमेरिका की अंतरिक्ष एजेंसी नासा ने उत्‍तर भारत में घने धुंए की डरावनी तस्‍वीर जारी की है। इस तस्‍वीर को नासा के सैटलाइट NOAA-21 से लिया गया है। नासा ने बताया कि यह धुंआ भारत में पराली जलाने की वजह से फैला है। पराली…

Home News Science & Astronomy This global mosaic is the first full view of Earth captured by the VIIRS instrument on NOAA's new NOAA-21 imaging satellite, which launched in November 2022. It shows Earth between Dec. 5 and 6, 2022. (Image credit: NOAA STAR VIIRS Imagery Team)What can you spot…

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the year. These conditions are rapidly changing as the Arctic warms. The Arctic is now seeing more rainfall when historically…

Bright blue water in the Caribbean Sea and smog in Northern India appear in the first global image produced with data from NOAA-21's VIIRS instrument. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on NOAA-21 began collecting Earth science data on Dec. 5 as the satellite passed over the East…

In the past year, the Arctic region has seen a typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card issued this week. The Arctic Report Card provides a detailed picture of how warming is reshaping the once reliably frozen,…

The future of meteorological simulation and forecasting may well be bound for the clouds — well, cloud datacenters anyway.  The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure to explore the use of cloud computing to advance climate research. This isn't, however,…

Data: NOAA; Chart: Thomas Oide/AxiosThe famous Keeling Curve may soon have a rare data gap. Driving the news: The Mauna Loa eruption on Monday cut power to the observatory where atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are measured, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Why it matters: The Keeling Curve, which shows…

The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on November 10 at 4:49 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Space Force…