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Science and shipwrecks: Preserving America’s maritime history

USS Conestoga (AT 54), the last known broadside photograph taken likely during WWI when the tugboat was equipped with a 3-inch 50 caliber naval gun and two machine guns. The tugboat was later equipped with only a single 3-inch 50 caliber gun when it disappeared while en route from Mare Island to America Samoa, by way of Pearl Harbor in 1921.

STORIES //

For businesses, natural disaster planning could help pandemic response

The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered many small- and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with natural disasters (2020) has not helped already struggling businesses.

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NOAA, federal partners announce marine litter strategy

NOAA team conducts shoreline marine debris removal at Lisianski Island.

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U.S. Winter Outlook: Cooler North, warmer South with ongoing La Nina

A male Eastern Bluebird perches by his snow covered house during a winter snowstorm (2018).

PHOTOS & GALLERIES //

Getting ready for the Atlantic hurricane season

More than 2500 students in the 4th and 5 grade took a tour of the NOAA WD-3D Orion Aircraft and met the crews who fly into the storms. The kids will take that information home to see if their families are ready for hurricanes. May 9, 2019.

INFOGRAPHICS //

When beaches are trashed, who pays the price?

Litter such as plastic detergent bottles, crates, buoys, combs, and water bottles blanket Kanapou Bay, on the Island of Kaho’olawe in Hawaii. This region is a hot-spot for marine debris accumulation.

LATEST MEDIA RELEASES //

AI agreement to enhance environmental monitoring, weather prediction

October 27, 2020

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artificial intelligence

NOAA physical scientist Anthony Arguez reviews El Niño and La Niña climate data on a computer screen at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Ocean observing prize solicits designs for tomorrow’s storm tracking technology

October 19, 2020

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NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the winners of the Powering the Blue Economy Ocean Observing Prize.

U.S. Winter Outlook: Cooler North, warmer South with ongoing La Nina

October 15, 2020

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climate outlooks

A car drives on a snow-covered local road in suburban northwest Chicago in 2018.

FOR THE MEDIA //

NOAA to issue 2020 U.S. Winter Outlook

October 8, 2020

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climate outlooks

A winter night.

Science briefing for media on major U.S. weather modeling system upgrade

September 21, 2020

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Trekking through heavy rain.

NOAA monthly U.S., global climate report call: September 17

September 15, 2020

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A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

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Rise of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere continues unabated

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measuring and modeling climate

Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory reached a seasonal peak of 417.1 parts per million for 2020 in May, the highest monthly reading ever recorded, according to scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. (2019 photo of observatory grounds, Big Island, Hawaii.)

NOAA leads community scientists in mapping hottest parts of 13 U.S. cities

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Sara Benson (right) and Roxanne Lee, of the Boston Science Museum, using a CAPA Heat Strategies sensor to investigate extreme heat in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 24, 2019.

A healthy and biodiverse ocean starts with all of us

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World Ocean Day

A woman standing on a flat rock ledge of a beach looks out at the blue ocean off the coast of Norway. Tall mountains lay in the distance. Undated 2019 image.

Warming influence of greenhouse gases continues to rise

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greenhouse gases

Air pollution in the form of brown smog envelops downtown Los Angeles, California. 2015.

Coral reef health reports issued for Atlantic, Gulf and Caribbean

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Fish swim around a coral reef in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Undated image.

Mount St. Helens, 40 years later: How NOAA monitors volcanic eruptions from space

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Mount St. Helens in eruption: aerial view looking toward the southwest with snow-capped Mount Hood in the distance. Skamania County, Washington. May 18, 1980.

April 2020 was Earth’s 2nd hottest April on record

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climate analyses and statistics

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

Periods of extreme humid heat occurring decades earlier than expected

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extreme weather

Stock image of 2 people taking a moment to recover from exercise in the high heat of the day.

See: Satellite detects changes in nighttime lights in NYC Metro area

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Earth observations

Tapping into data from the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite’s Day/Night Band, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, and the Colorado School of Mines examined the difference in illumination of urban and suburban lights between February and March, 2020. By doing so, the scientists were able to detect areas of dimming (blue), and in some cases brightening (red), of nighttime lights from the Mid-Atlantic to New England.

NOAA teams with UN to create app to track locust swarms

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technology & innovation

A man walks through a swarm of locusts in Kenya on January 22, 2020. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning of a second, potentially even more disastrous upsurge in locust attacks expected to strike croplands across eastern Africa this summer.

NOAA exploring effects of COVID-19 response on the environment

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Paolo Wilczak, a pilot with Scientific Aviation, flies an air sampling mission over Groton, Connecticut, as part of the East Coast Outflow Experiment on April 25, 2020. Scientific Aviation is helping NOAA collect air samples for this research project.

‘Near-average’ April was marked by deadliest tornado outbreak in 6 years

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climate analyses and statistics

NOAA meteorologists took this photo of a home in Oneanota, Alabama, that was destroyed by a deadly tornado outbreak that tore across the U.S. South and Southeast on April 12-13, 2020. It was the deadliest outbreak since 2014 and one of several in April 2020.

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