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Home News In mid-August, a team of Massachusetts-based marine biologists set out on the waters of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, just east of Boston. Their mission: to tag some basking sharks — the second-biggest shark species on Earth, and a predator still considered highly mysterious to scientists. But soon…

To help the wider public understand and contribute, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has outlined six steps it takes to manage shark fisheries. Currently, NOAA manages 43 shark species in the Atlantic Ocean of a total of 479 fish stocks it oversees. NOAA has broken down the complex…

by Raytheon Intelligence & Space — August 23, 2021 NASA Goddard's Earth Observing System Data and Information System, or EOSDIS, developed and maintained by Raytheon Technologies, shows a map of the U.S. on June 27, 2021. RI&S is working with NOAA to improve weather modeling and provide further accuracy in…

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: floods, heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and loss of glacial ice. Credit: NOAA July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.  “In this case,…

Technology was on duty miles downwind, where, as the battle against these fires went on for days, even weeks, many residents of the Bay Area and Sacramento River Delta region turned to air-quality sensor networks, particularly AirNow, maintained by the U.S. government, and PurpleAir, created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors.…

If you’re a marine debris specialist, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is still looking for nominees to serve as members of the Marine Debris Foundation board of directors. NOAA originally posted an announcement seeking nominees in May. The original announcement stated the board will consist of 12 directors…

Read More NOAA said combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.67 degrees Fahrenheit)  above the 20th-century average of 15.8 degrees Celsius (60.4 degrees Fahrenheit), making it the hottest July since record-keeping began 142 years ago. The month was 0.01 of a degree Celcius (0.02 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the previous…

Now that mainstream media often gives climate change news prominent coverage (it wasn't always so), you may well have heard that NOAA today declared July the hottest month on record. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad in a statement. “July…

Home News EU satellite imagery shows an extreme heatwave in Greece and Turkey in early August. A new report found July 2021 to be the hottest month on Earth in recorded history. (Image credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery) July 2021 was officially the hottest month in recorded history, according…

July 2021 was officially the hottest month humans have ever recorded. This July narrowly beat out three previous months in 2016, 2019, and 2020 that had tied for the previous title. The fact that all of this has happened so recently just screams climate change. “In this case, first place…