City and county officials and residents don’t always understand what hazard mitigation is or why it benefits their community, including how it may help with obtaining FEMA funding. NOAA has provided a resource focused on the benefits of hazard mitigation in Oklahoma.
El Niño and La Niña affect weather in the United States, but the connection is a long chain of ocean-to-atmosphere links that climate models don’t always capture. New techniques may help scientists evaluate model accuracy.
A new paper quantifies the role played by phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean, which moderates climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and transporting carbon to the ocean depths.
A new study finds the corals within the Port of Miami’s urbanized environment have demonstrated great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high salinity, and low pH levels.
Plants emit molecules while growing, reproducing, and defending themselves, and atmospheric chemical reactions turn these compounds into biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOA). But how do human activities affect biogenic SOA?
Large volcanic eruptions significantly impact climate, so it’s surprising that climate predictions for 1954–2015 appeared less accurate when they used volcanic eruptions to force model simulations.
The Western United States has experienced a winter deluge, following a continuous drought since 2020 and a climate-driven megadrought since the early 2000s. A new webinar examines what might happen next.
To better care for our Earth and mitigate the effects of climate change, we must first look to the ocean. This Earth Day, NOAA invite you to learn more about contributions to the global ocean observing system.
The new coral tree will be kept and maintained in a coral nursery off Key Biscayne, to provide a consistent coral supply for experiments conducted at the Experimental Reef Laboratory. A supply of naturally grown corals will greatly enhance the research capabilities of our Coral Program scientists.
An international study finds methane emissions from oil and gas activities over 2010–2019 were 70 percent higher than previously estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. But the study also finds the rate of methane emissions fell slightly over that period.