SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 1, 2025 (ENS) – On the first day of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures have set the stage, and now forecasters at NOAA’s National Weather Service predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year. […]
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 25, 2025 (ENS) – Bring in the lawn furniture, folks, and bar the doors and windows. There is an 85 percent chance that the countries and U.S. states bordering the Atlantic Ocean are in for a difficult “above-normal” hurricane season this year, U.S. National Weather Service experts at the Climate Prediction Center are warning. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2023 (ENS) – As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to restore protections for species, strengthen consultation and listing processes, and reaffirm the central role science plays in decisions that guide the protection and recovery of endangered and threatened wildlife. […]
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – “Offshore wind has the biggest growth potential of any renewable energy technology, but the policy environment needs to improve rapidly for offshore wind to reach international net zero targets,” the Brussels-based Global Wind Energy Council said in its latest Offshore Wind Report 2021. […]
NEW YORK, New York January 17, 2022 (ENS) – “Science leaves no room for doubt: Climate change is the existential threat of our time,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Eight […]
TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, an international effort led by Seabed 2030 is underway to precisely map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade… […]
AUGUSTA, Maine, October 16, 2021 (ENS) – The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS, and the Secretary of Commerce in a challenge to the agency’s […]
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 13, 2021 (ENS) – July 2021 was the hottest month ever documented on this planet since recordkeeping began 142 years ago, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. […]
MAUNA LOA, Hawaii, June 7, 2021 (ENS) – Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level […]
GALVESTON, Texas, January 22, 2021 (ENS) – One of the last acts of the outgoing Trump administration was taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, which has tripled the area protected by the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 21, 2020 (ENS) – There is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with three to six major hurricanes, forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, announced today ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season – June 1 through November 30. […]
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