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NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Adds New Alerts Due to Record-Breaking Heat

NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Adds New Alerts Due to Record-Breaking Heat

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch has added three new alert levels to track potential risks to coral reefs and other marine life following the hottest year on record. Previously, Coral Reef Watch’s Bleaching Alert Area product stopped at a Bleaching Alert Level 2, which warned of a “risk of reef-wide […]

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    Climate Denier Who Supports Fossil Fuel Emissions Is Named to Leadership Role at NOAA

    Climate Denier Who Supports Fossil Fuel Emissions Is Named to Leadership Role at NOAA

    By Julia Conley Climate scientists were aghast Monday at the news that David Legates, a University of Delaware professor who has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing the climate crisis and has claimed that carbon dioxide emissions are beneficial, has been named by the Trump administration to a top leadership role […]

    Watchdog Accuses Trump’s NOAA of ‘Choosing Extinction’ for Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence

    Watchdog Accuses Trump’s NOAA of ‘Choosing Extinction’ for Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence

    By Julia Conley As the North Atlantic right whale was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of critically endangered species Thursday, environmental protection groups accusing the U.S. government of bowing to fishing and fossil fuel industry pressure to downplay the threat and failing to enact common-sense restrictions to protect the animals. […]

    NOAA Officials Backed Trump’s False Dorian Claims Under Threat of Firing, Sources Say

    NOAA Officials Backed Trump’s False Dorian Claims Under Threat of Firing, Sources Say

    On Monday, EcoWatch reported how National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials had sided with President Donald Trump‘s false claims that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama and against the National Weather Service (NWS) office that moved swiftly to correct the record. Now, new information reported by The New York Times Monday reveals that the NOAA […]

    July 2019 Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, NOAA Confirms

    July 2019 Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, NOAA Confirms

    Humanity faced its hottest month in at least 140 years in July, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. The finding confirms similar analysis provided by its EU counterparts. “Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat,” NOAA said on its website. “The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea […]

    Warming Oceans Strongly Linked to Sea Star Die-Off

    Warming Oceans Strongly Linked to Sea Star Die-Off

    A sea star once “as common as a robin” off the Pacific coast of the U.S. is now considered an endangered species in the southern part of its range, and new research suggests climate change might be partly to blame. Since 2013, a sea star wasting disease has devastated around 20 sea star species between […]

    Crucial Climate Data Archive Taken Offline Amid Shutdown

    Crucial Climate Data Archive Taken Offline Amid Shutdown

    A number of websites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are currently unavailable for public access due to a “lapse in appropriations” from the ongoing government shutdown, an agency spokesperson told The Hill. For instance, the website for the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)—a vast and significant archive of historical climate, oceanic, […]

    How the Government Shutdown Could Impact the Nation’s Environment

    How the Government Shutdown Could Impact the Nation’s Environment

    A partial government shutdown continued for a third day Monday as legislators left the capital for the holidays, CNBC reported Monday. The shutdown is due to an impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress over $5 billion in funding for Trump’s border wall, a construction project that would have devastating consequences for wildlife in the […]

    Reindeer Numbers Have Fallen by More than Half in 2 Decades

    Reindeer Numbers Have Fallen by More than Half in 2 Decades

    It’s a sad Christmas for the world’s reindeer—the antlered Arctic grazers associated with all things Santa Claus. Their numbers have fallen by more than half in the past 20 years, and climate change is likely to blame. The latest numbers come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s 2018 Arctic Report Card, which listed the […]