Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.

It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas. As a result, the water supply two billion people is under threat. The mountain range ...

During an interview, Rick Spinrad said he was "deeply concerned" about the consequences of Trump administration's proposed ...

Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the ...

After a wind burst from a thunderstorm changed the direction of the 2013 Yarnell Hill fire and killed 19 wildland ...

Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms flooding downtown San Francisco. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms. California ...

A small business is challenging how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration evaluated its proposal for the ...

The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and for mapping ...

The past six months have proven to be a tale of two Californias when it comes to atmospheric river events. While Northern ...

As atmospheric rivers pounded the U.S. West Coast last winter, scientists deployed increasingly advanced observing tools over ...

Story continues below this ad Atmospheric rivers can vary greatly in size and strength. But usually, they are 402 to 606 km wide and can be more than 1600 km long, NOAA said. Although atmospheric ...