Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is concerned with scientific and regulatory activities around water bodies and environmental change.

"We just need Cal/OSHA to be out there more often and do more inspections that hopefully will save farmworker lives." ...

Houston led an aerial tour of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Wednesday morning from a ...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping ...

The short answer was no — at least, not that scientists could detect. Despite early hints of success, they concluded in the ...

As a record-hot summer comes to a close, an atmospheric scientist explains how global warming drove long periods of extreme ...

The National Weather Service says a tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is forecast to bring significant ...

Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament ...

It is the season’s seventh named storm. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year because of record warm ocean ...

Air pollution from wildfires is a growing problem with many health harms, particularly for Blacks and Latinx. You can protect ...

Montana’s summer was among the top 30 warmest and driest the state has seen during the past 130 years, causing drought to ...

"This research builds on the already incredible capabilities of the National Water Center to detect and predict flooding over large land areas, and will enable more accurate flood monitoring ...