While extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, the National Weather Service and its parent agency, the ...

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.

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 ...

Storms are brewing in the Atlantic and two areas have forecasters warning the US Southeast about their potential impact.

"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 ...

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 ...

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are expected to remain drought-free through the remainder of the year, with ...

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

"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 ...

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

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