New and Strange Climate Pattern Includes More Violent El Nino Swings
Compelling Hard Evidence: El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to…
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Last Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing – Twice As Fast
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research….
Larval Fish Nurseries Invaded by Prey-Size Plastics – Biodiversity and Fisheries Production Threatened
New research shows that many larval fish species from different ocean habitats are surrounded by and ingesting plastics in their preferred nursery habitat. Many of…
Growth Rates of Deep-Sea Coral Communities Revealed for the First Time
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU)…
Prepare for Substantially Larger Heat Waves – Extreme Heat Waves Could Double in Size
Our planet has been baking under the sun this summer as temperatures reached the hottest ever recorded and heat waves spread across the globe. While…
Antarctic Ozone Hole is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery [Video]
Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since…
Say Goodbye to This Ocean-Monitoring Satellite
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science…
“Impressive” Memory and Navigation Revealed by Mako Shark Tracking off West Coast
These top predators travel far across the Pacific, returning to the same areas in the Southern California Bight each year. The largest effort ever to…
NASA Analyzes Tropical Storm Dorian Day and Night
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where the sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. The Leewards extend from…
NASA Satellite Image: Amazon Fires Shroud South America in Smoke
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite collected this natural-color image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on August 21, 2019. Smoke from the fires…
West Coast Ocean Conditions Finally Returning to Normal
Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after an extreme marine heat wave from about 2014 to 2016…
NOAA’s GOES-S Satellite is Ready for Today’s Launch, Watch It Live
Today is launch day for NOAA’s newest weather satellite, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S). A two-hour launch window will open at 5:02 p.m. EST…
NASA and NOAA Show Long-Term Global Warming Trend Continues
A new analysis by NASA shows that Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming…
Independent Analyses Reveal 2015 Surface Temperatures Are the Warmest on Record
&nbs According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping…
2015 Antarctic Ozone Hole Larger Than Recent Years
Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveal that the 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in…
NOAA: July 2015 The Warmest Month Ever Recorded
A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals that July 2015 had the all-time highest monthly temperature in the 1880–2015 record, at…
NASA DSCOVR Satellite Image of Africa and Europe
This newly released NASA image shows Africa and Europe from a million miles away. Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken…
NOAA Determines Radiation Risk of Underwater Aircraft Carrier
A team of researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rediscovered the scuttled U.S.S. Independence, determining the radiation risk of exploring the underwater aircraft…