Tag: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 01:46 UTC

  July 2019, the hottest on record, and Arctic ice shrank to its lowest, NOAA reports

  

  July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally; the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.

• Saturday, August 20th 2016 - 05:54 UTC

  July was the northern hemisphere hottest month in history of record- keeping

  

  July is typically the hottest month for the globe in the northern hemisphere, and last month didn’t disappoint. But this time around, it was not only the hottest July on record, but the hottest month in the history of record-keeping.

• Thursday, August 18th 2016 - 05:57 UTC

  US and Argentina cooperation in South Atlantic climate conditions and fisheries

  

  An international forum on ocean and sea sciences between Argentine and United States scientists is scheduled for next week in Mar del Plata. The 23/27 August event is in the framework of the closer ties in research and innovation between Argentina and its new partner, United States.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 07:12 UTC

  Miami sea-food sentenced for falsely labeling Chilean salmon as Scottish

  

  A Miami-located seafood company was sentenced in a Federal Court for falsely labeling salmon in December 2012 in violation of the Lacey Act, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 05:26 UTC

  Meteorologists rebuke Royal Caribbean's “Anthem of the Seas” on weather report

  

  “Royal Caribbean should have known better”. That's the word Tuesday from weather experts who closely monitored the development of the storm that rocked the line's Anthem of the Seas, on Sunday and Monday.

• Thursday, January 21st 2016 - 07:59 UTC

  Last year was the hottest in modern times since 1880, shattering 2014 record

  

  2015 was by far the hottest year in modern times and raising new concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change. Not only was 2015 the warmest worldwide since 1880, it shattered the previous record held in 2014 by the widest margin ever observed, said the report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2015 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentina displays software to detect and monitor jiggers in the South Atlantic

  

  A specially designed software to help detect, monitor and identify jiggers operating in international waters in the South Atlantic was presented at a meeting organized by Argentina's National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP together with the country's Space Research national commission, partners in the development.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2015 - 06:12 UTC

  US NOAA to investigate whale stranding as an “unusual mortality event”

  

  The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared the recent deaths of 30 large whales in the western Gulf of Alaska an “unusual mortality event,” triggering a focused, expert investigation into the cause. An unusual mortality event is a stranding event that is unexpected, involves a significant die-off of a marine mammal population and demands immediate response.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 09:07 UTC

  NOAA Fisheries names three Latam countries in illegal fishing activities

  

  United States NOAA Fisheries (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has released its 2015 Biennial Report to Congress highlighting U.S. findings and analyses of foreign illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities and of by-catch of protected species and shark catch on the high seas for foreign fleets.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 02:09 UTC

  Record high temperatures over land and sea in March, says NOAA and NASA

  

  The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for March 2015 was the highest for the month since record keeping began in 1880. The year-to-date (January–March) globally averaged temperature was also record high, reports the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, together with data from NASA.