News & Features
Sparked by lightning on May 31, the East Fork Fire spread swiftly across the Alaskan tundra, threatening four Yup’ik villages by mid-June. NOAA updated local residents, as well as state and national news media about the rapidly evolving situation. Though unrelated to the fire’s source, climate change likely contributed to the fire’s rapid growth to historic proportions.
A new instrument for measuring aerosols on a long-term basis has recently been installed at NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The information from the sensor could lead to more accurate weather and air quality forecasts.
The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) will be expanded under the terms of a new 20-year lease NOAA signed today with the City of Lakeland, Florida.
NOAA has announced a new agreement to support evaluation of whether the ocean can safely remove and store billions of tons of carbon dioxide.
NOAA and community partners will map heat inequities in 14 communities across the United States, and two international cities during the summer of 2022.
NOAA, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System, and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity have launched a new public information series called the Climate and Health Outlook. Melding weather forecasts and health resources, the Outlook aims to reduce high-heat health risks and save lives.
NOAA and India team up to create life-saving tropical cyclone forecast model for nation of a billion
A 12-year collaboration between NOAA and the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences paves the way for advances in severe weather modeling and may lead to improved tropical cyclone forecasts.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know now what the weather is going to be like for the vacation you have planned next month? Or, if you’re a farmer, whether you’re going to get enough rainfall during a ...
On Feb. 25, researchers from NOAA and three entities in California published a study in Science on the effects of the natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon, an area of Los Angeles, California. The study …