Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is concerned with scientific and regulatory activities around water bodies and environmental change.

In an effort to eradicate illegal fishing and seafood fraud, the Obama Administration is launching a fish tracking system that would eventually tell consumers where their fish was caught ...

The short answer was no — at least, not that scientists could detect. Despite early hints of success, they concluded in the ...

The outdoor app OnX recently added near-real-time updates to wildfire and smoke layers that introduce new levels of safety ...

It is the season’s seventh named storm. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year because of record warm ocean ...

Once in a blue moon, boaters off California catch a glimpse of a famous but elusive white killer whale. Frosty, as it is ...

Air pollution from wildfires is a growing problem with many health harms, particularly for Blacks and Latinx. You can protect ...

The National Weather Service says a tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is forecast to bring significant ...

keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic ...

Former Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Chair and Florida Keys developer Robert Spottswood urged the FWC board to not approve an overhaul of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary ...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping ...

For two decades, a bold and promising experiment sought to answer a wild question: Could scientists artificially weaken ...