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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…

The eye of dangerous storm Hurricane Ida has now reached land on the southeastern coast of Louisiana, near Port Fourchon. “Within the past hour, sustained winds of 43 mph and a gust to 67 mph were reported at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge…

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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana—New Orleans was plunged into darkness hours after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people in 2005. By late evening, local media outlets were reporting that Entergy New Orleans, the power provider for Orleans Parish, had endured…

August 13, 2021 - 01:15AM Storyful Over 300,000 customers were without power in the Dominican Republic after Tropical Depression Fred struck the country, according to local news on August 12. The weather conditions prompted two airports to close, according to local news. The Dominican Republic remained under alert on August…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tropical storms in 2020 didn't just break records in the northern Atlantic. It happened everywhere. Storm totals exceeded records all over the world, according to an international study from 60 countries detailed in the "State of the Climate in 2020″ report released Wednesday. The annual report…

The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico has been measured to be about 6,334 square miles (16,405 square km), according to new findings from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA scientists measure the hypoxic zone in the Gulf every year. This year’s measurement is “equivalent to more…

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…