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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Hurricane Francine is on course to hit Louisiana Wednesday afternoon or evening before moving over Mississippi Thursday, and could strengthen into a Category 2 by the time it makes landfall, according ...

Once in a blue moon, boaters off California catch a glimpse of a famous but elusive white killer whale. Frosty, as it is ...

"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 ...