Neil Jacobs, the new nominee to lead NOAA, faces different challenges compared to his stint as acting NOAA boss during Trump ...
Urban ash from the California wildfires that has settled across the state has now been found more than 100 miles offshore.
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and ... said Michelle L'Heureux, head of NOAA's El Nino team. “It’s totally not clear ...
Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...
The month of January was a cold month, and while we received snow on 11 days of the month, we only managed to pick up 5.3 ...
The last El Niño, the periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters, finished in June 2024. NOAA forecasters have been expecting La Niña for months. The previous La Niña concluded in 2023 after an ...
A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...
La Niña occurs when the ocean's surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific reach a specific cooler-than-average level, as circled below. In addition, the response of ...