Tag: NOAA

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:08 UTC

  Onset of “El Niño” announced

  

  The US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Thursday the onset of “El Niño,” a weather phenomenon characterized by a warming of the surface of the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean that occurs every 2 to 7 years, which can increase the risk of heavy rains and droughts in some parts of the world and lead to record temperatures.

• Saturday, April 9th 2022 - 15:44 UTC

  Atmospheric methane on the rise, NOAA warns

  

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US Department of Commerce has warned that the presence of methane reached new highs in 2021.

• Monday, January 11th 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  US joins the world battle to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

  

  The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, has taken the initiative in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Humpback whales in the SW Atlantic total some 25.000, NOAA survey

  

  One of the whale populations taken to the edge of extinction by commercial hunting in the early 20th Century has essentially recovered its numbers. It's estimated the humpbacks that frequent the southwest Atlantic once totaled perhaps 27,000 animals.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  June was the hottest month in 140 years, says NOAA

  

  June 2019 was the hottest in 140 years, setting a global record, according to the latest monthly global climate report released on Thursday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  Seals mortality in Bering Sea beaches baffles scientists; above normal water temperatures

  

  At least 60 dead seals have been discovered along beaches of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska, and scientists are trying to determine what caused their deaths, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wednesday. 

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Some 58 grey whales stranded and dead off Alaska, mostly malnourished

  

  Dozens of grey whales have been found dead along the U.S. West Coast in recent weeks and some scientists believe the cause lies far to the north, in the heated-up Arctic waters off Alaska. Fifty-eight grey whales have been found stranded and dead so far this year in sites stretching from California to Alaska, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 10:49 UTC

  Ozone hole over Antarctica reached its ninth largest on record in September

  

  The Antarctic ozone hole, which yawns wide every Southern Hemisphere spring, reached its annual peak on September 12, stretching 10.05 million square miles, the ninth largest on record and equivalent to three times the area of Brazil: 3.3m.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 20:20 UTC

  Antarctica penguin species suffering from declining krill availability, says NOAA

  

  A number of penguin species found in western Antarctica are declining as a result of a fall in the availability of krill, a study has suggested. Researchers, examining 30 years of data, said chinstrap and Adelie penguin numbers had been falling since 1986.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2010 - 04:15 UTC

  Seafood Prices May Rocket Due to Louisiana Oil Slick; Ten Day Fishing Ban In

  

  United States officials have announced a ban on fishing for at least ten days in waters off Louisiana spanning to parts of the Florida panhandle as the oil slick from a leak spreads across the Gulf of Mexico. Rough weather conditions are complicating crews’ efforts to contain the oil slick.