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La temperatura promedio global de la superficie de la Tierra en 2021 empató con la de 2018 como la sexta más cálida registrada, según análisis independientes realizados por la NASA y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés...Read More

Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-T satellite, the Western Hemisphere’s most advanced weather observing and environmental monitoring system...Read More

The number of companies that provide the technologies to observe and measure ocean dynamics has grown significantly since 2015, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report. The U.S. Ocean Enterprise Report finds that this cluster of ocean research-related businesses, called the “Ocean Enterprise,” provides essential support to…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hold an online hearing next month to gather public comments on its proposal to establish time-area closures for certain areas where spinner dolphins frequent off the Hawaiian Islands. The public hearing will be held online on December 9th, 2021 from 17:00 to…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced the launch of its latest version of the National Marine Ecosystem Status website. The site provides all of NOAA’s ecosystem data in one convenient place. The website is designed to offer a host of stakeholders and an in-depth look into marine…

Last Friday, the House of Representatives passed a historic infrastructure bill, which includes $1.2 trillion allocated towards supporting planes, trains, energy systems—and the largest investment ever for broadband internet, to the tune of $65 billion. President Biden is expected to sign it into law on Monday. More than 30 million…

Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures ever to exist on earth. But they largely spend their lives eating tiny shrimplike creatures called krill, which they strain out of the ocean in huge mouthfuls. To power their huge bodies and planetary migrations, they need to eat millions upon millions of…

Lt. Timothy Holland, NOAA Corps, emerges from a balloon assembly station with an ozonesonde attached to a weather balloon before releasing it over the South Pole. Credit: Josiah Horneman, Station Physician's Assistant, Antarctic Support Contract The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th…

Above-average temperatures are predicted across the South and most of the eastern U.S. this winter.The big Northeast snowstorms and blizzards – which can paralyze cities from Boston to Washington, D.C. – tend to be less common during La Niña winters.Drought conditions are forecast to persist and develop in the Southwest and Southern…

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth approximately 11,000 miles in space. The GPS satellites in this animation are not drawn to scale. However, their orbits and orientation to the Earth are approximately correct. GPS satellites are organized into six different orbital paths completely…