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NOAA undergraduate scholarships are open — Apply today!

September 1, 2019

All interns on deck to pull the 100 ft. seine! Taylor Cubbage (second from left) helps pull the seine during her Hollings scholar internship along Sandy Hook's beaches in New Jersey. She completed her internship with the Sandy Hook National Recreational Area.

Your one-stop page for #Dorian web, imagery and social media resources

August 30, 2019

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NOAA's GOES-East image of Hurricane Dorian on Aug. 30, 2019

NOAA partners with Department of Education to bring watershed education to out-of-school programs

August 27, 2019

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Office of Education

Star Lake Elementary and Totem Middle School students work with the Environmental Science Center to sample macroinvertebrates at a field study site in Washington state as part of a 2017 NOAA-21st CCLC Watershed STEM Education Partnership Grant.

July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet

August 15, 2019

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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.

International climate report confirms 2018 was 4th warmest year on record for planet

August 12, 2019

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climate analyses and statistics

global average temperatures

A new tool developed by NOAA will help farmers, ranchers and water managers recognize oncoming drought.

Alaska had its hottest month on record in July

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climate analyses and statistics

An abnormally hot, dry July 2019 for Alaska: The Boney Creek Fire (aerial photo) was started on July 18 by lightning and was burning about 10 miles southwest of the village of Tanana and about 2 miles southeast of the nearest allotments as of July 19.

Teachers: Get ready for the new school year with NOAA

Teacher at Sea alum Trevor Hance led a Trout in the Classroom program for 140 second-grade students at Laurel Mountain Elementary in Austin, Texas.

Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide

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climate science

Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.

How to increase resilience through education: Lessons from NOAA Environmental Literacy grantees

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Nearly 75 participants pose in front of the NOAA Science Center for the second ELP Resilience Education Grantee Workshop held at NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2019.

New species alert: This tiny shark fits in your pocket and glows in the dark

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The newly identified American Pocket Shark or Mollisquama mississippiensis -- a 5½-inch male kitefin shark -- was first discovered in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Pocket sharks have two small pockets (one on each side near the gills) that produce luminous fluid that causes it to glow in the water.

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