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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced the recipients of the 2021 Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Grant awards. The awards — to 25 recipients — total approximately US$7.3 million (~€6.2 million) in federal funds. Non-federal contributions matched that money, bringing the total amount of these marine debris…

When Hurricane Ida finally moved on from Louisiana and Mississippi, it had weakened to a tropical storm. Shortly after, it became a mass of warm, wet air moving steadily up the US. But its rapid renewal and deluge could be a sign of how upcoming warmer, wetter storms will be…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced the availability of a host of Marine Debris Grants for the fiscal year 2022, which begins on October 1st, 2021. The grant opportunities are prioritized towards projects that will create quantifiable improvements, including the removal of abandoned fishing gear, abandoned vessels,…

The United States had its hottest summer on record this year, narrowly edging out the previous milestone that was set 85 years ago during the Dust Bowl. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that the average temperature this summer for the contiguous U.S. was 74 degrees Fahrenheit, or…

The past three months of disaster-filled weather across the lower 48 states ranks in a statistical dead heat with the Dust Bowl year of 1936 as the hottest summer on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Thursday. Why it matters: A record 18.4% of the contiguous U.S.…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hosting its fall webinar of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel this week. The advisory panel consists of representatives of commercial and recreational fishing interests, the scientific community, and the environmental community. “NOAA Fisheries holds periodic meetings of the Atlantic HMS…

For Immediate Release: September 3, 2021 Contact: David Perle 202-483-7382 Miami – Records just released from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveal that six animals died in 2019 and 2020 at the Miami Seaquarium. Among them were two bottlenose dolphins and a sea lion, all of whom died…

This post is being updated. Hurricane Ida, which made landfall over the weekend in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, is moving towards the Northeast as a strong storm, bringing heavy flash floods and tornadoes to many parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York. Even below tropical…

Home News The massive Hurricane Ida is easily visible on Earth from 1 million miles away as seen by NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory in orbit at a stable Lagrange point on Aug. 29, 2021 as the storm made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. (Image credit: NOAA)…

Hurricane Ida is pummeling Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” storm after strengthening rapidly over the weekend. The hurricane swirled towards the coast with winds of 150 miles per hour, accompanied by a life-threatening surge of water, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center warned on Sunday. “This will be one of…