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…
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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…
Opah – The First Fully Warm-Blooded Fish
A newly published study reveals details about the opah – the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body. New research by…
Global Temperature Analysis Finds 2014 as Warmest Year in Modern Record
According to a global temperature analysis by NASA, nine of the 10 warmest years since modern records began have now occurred since 2000 with 2014…
2014 Antarctic Ozone Hole Comparable to Previous Years
Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveal that the overall 2014 ozone hole is smaller than the large holes of the…
New NASA/NOAA Animations Reveal Water Vapor Over Oceans
Scientists have used observations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites to create two new types of animations that indicate where…
New ScienceCast Video Examines the Evidence That an El Niño is Developing
A new four minute long ScienceCast video examines the evidence that an El Niño is developing in the Pacific. Every ten days, the NASA/French Space…
New ScienceCast Video Details a Carrington-Class CME that Narrowly Missed Earth
A new ScienceCast video details an intense solar storm that narrowly missed Earth two years ago. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still…
Atmospheric River Observatories Allow Accurate Weather Prediction of Floods
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow conveyor belts of rainstorms that stream in from the Pacific Ocean. Meteorologists have been able to predict the storms five…
Low Water Levels Could Shut Down Mississippi River Shipping Lanes
The worst drought in 50 years has brought water levels in the Mississippi River close to historic lows, and could potentially shut down all shipping…
Methane Levels Higher Than Previous Estimates in California
By combining methane measurements from a tower with model predictions of expected methane signals, scientists were able to revise estimate the methane emissions from central…
BP Oil Spill Could be Responsible for the Death of Gulf Dolphins
According to new data from 2011 NOAA tests, bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico are underweight, anemic, have low blood sugar and/or some symptoms…