News & Features

Second year of widespread bleaching underway on the Great Barrier Reef

Michon Scott | March 30, 2017

On the heels of 2016's devastating mass bleaching event at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, tourists and park managers are reporting thermal stress and mass bleaching again in early 2017.

NOAA publishes agency-wide framework to optimize and accelerate modeling

March 29, 2017

A new report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models. If implemented, unified modeling could reduce costs and optimize resources for NOAA, while .. ...

NOAA publishes agency-wide framework to optimize and accelerate modeling

March 29, 2017

A new report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models. If implemented, unified modeling could reduce costs and optimize resources for NOAA, ... ...

Skillful seasonal predictions of the California Current sea surface temperature possible, study says

March 29, 2017

A seasonal multi-model forecast system can produce skillful predictions of sea surface temperature in the CaliforniaCurrent System up to 4 months in advance, according to a new study published in ... ...

Research shows ocean acidification is spreading rapidly in the Arctic

Monica Allen | March 29, 2017

The area of the Arctic Ocean experiencing acidification due to excess carbon dioxide is growing rapidly. Communities dependent on shellfish and other marine resources could be at risk.

A superbloom of wildflowers overtakes California's southeastern deserts in March 2017

Rebecca Lindsey | March 28, 2017

Following years of exceptional drought, California's southeastern deserts were awash in a superbloom of short-lived but spectacular wildflowers in March 2017.