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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Landsat 9 satellite onboard launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.
Science & Technology
Landsat 9 will capture satellite images of a radically changing Earth, NASA scientist says
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
A lobster sits in a holding bin before having its claws banded onboard the lobster boat "Wild Irish Rose" in the waters off Cape Elizabeth, Maine August 21, 2013.
Business
The Swedes want North American lobster out. And the Americans are fighting back.
Environment
Obama’s proposed budget cuts funding for rescuing animals, like dolphins beaching on Cape Cod
Environment
Obama’s rock star science team
Arts, Culture & Media
NOAA Surveys US Coastal Waters for Leaking Shipwrecks
NOAA Signed Off on Gulf Drilling Plans
A Sea Change for Ocean Management
Lubchenco’s Climate Service
Science on Hold
Extreme Weather