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by Debra Werner — February 5, 2021 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to launch the Space Weather Follow On satellite to Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1 in 2025 on the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 is designed to carry on work performed by…

IMAGE: Composite image showing just a small portion of the remarkable diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. view more  Credit: Credit: Larval photos: Jonathan Whitney (NOAA Fisheries), Slick photo: Joey Lecky (NOAA Fisheries). To survive the open ocean, tiny…

Watch as a Mattia Destro brace away at Crotone inspired Genoa’s third win in the last four Serie A games. Read the full match report HERE.  Crotone remain at the bottom of the table, as Genoa left with all the spoils, inspired by Destro and Lennart Czyborra in an entertaining…

It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA scientists. The average land and ocean surface temperature across the globe in 2020 was 1.76 degrees F (0.98 of a degree C) above average —…

A record thirty named storms have formed during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. This week, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released satellite imagery showing the storms, ahead of the season’s end on November 30. Arthur, the first named storm of 2020, formed in May, before the season had officially…

Meanwhile NOAA put the year just behind 2016 in the charts, but it was remarkably hot by either agency’s measure Fires in Trans-Baikal forest Siberia. Credit: L. Yagovy Getty Images The results are finally in: 2020 was one of the hottest years in recorded history, according to data released today…

Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said last year…

Two Trump appointees to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy who published a set of documents denying climate change were reassigned on Tuesday. David Legates and Ryan Maue will be reportedly returning to positions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The documents, published bearing the seal…

Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2020 during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 14.Read More

by Debra Werner — January 11, 2021 NOAA's recommended Geostationary and Extended Orbits constellation includes three satellites: GEO-West, GEO-Center and GEO-East. Credit: NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service SAN FRANCISCO – NOAA’s National Satellite, Data and Information Service is recommending flying three satellites over the United States in…