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Dr. Stephen Volz helped build America's satellite infrastructure. In a conversation with ALLATRA, he explains what the data is telling us about our planet and our future. When you check the weather…

Two hurricanes were under warning on the morning of Oct. 9, 2026, and the US National Hurricane Center wrote up both in the same forecast cycle. Isaias was over the Gulf and still strengthening,…

Scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report that a seasonal forecast system predicts with high skill how much sunlight will reach the southwestern United States in spring. They…

El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that reshapes weather around the world, may be about to reach a strength never recorded. Only months ago the ocean was in the opposite state: in…

In 1903 the officer of the watch on a merchant ship read the barometer, wrote the number in the log, and thought no more about it. More than a century later that number, and hundreds of thousands…

Lifeguards on night patrol saw an olive ridley sea turtle dig into the sand and lay eggs near Seal Beach in Southern California on Sept. 16, and a second turtle nest, possibly from the same animal,…

The busiest day of the Atlantic hurricane season, by the long-run average, is September 10. That day came and went with no hurricane anywhere in the basin, and so did the day after it. When September…

A coral is not a tree, but it keeps the same kind of books. The slow-growing stony corals of the northern Gulf of Mexico add a layer of limestone every year, one on top of the last, for centuries.…

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information reported on Sept. 9 that the contiguous United States averaged 74.4 degrees Fahrenheit from June through August 2026, the warmest summer in a…

Most of the U.S. estuaries in a national monitoring network have warmed, grown more algae and lost oxygen over the past two decades, a research team led by Kaitlin L. Reinl of Rensselaer Polytechnic…

Closing a stretch of seabed off Oregon to trawlers to make room for floating wind farms would change the groundfish catch very little, and would not hand the fishery much of a bonus either, according…

The flash-flood warning the National Weather Service office in Flagstaff sent at 2:42 p.m. on August 29 was not drawn around a county. It was written for "The Bright Angel Creek Basin below the…