NOAA chief says she will leave in February
NEW YORK (AP) -- The woman who was a key figure in the federal government's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
NOAA seeks public input on how to address looming satellite gap
Faced with the near certainty of a lengthy gap in observations from a key weather satellite, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking ideas...
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
White House threatens veto over NOAA, NASA funding
The U.S. House of Representatives today begins work on passing a 2013 spending bill that includes robust funding for the National Science Foundation—but the White House is...
Monday, January 16th, 2012
White House plan would move NOAA to Interior
The federal agency merger plan that President Obama is pushing Friday would shake up environmental and climate research and policymaking.Under the plan, the National...
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
House science panel to investigate NOAA climate service
A political feud over a "shadow" climate science service is heating up again. Following months of partisan sparring, Representative Ralph Hall (R-TX), announced...
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
NOAA, Shell, ConocoPhillips and Statoil agree to share ocean, coastal and meteorological data for the Arctic
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc. signed an agreement to...
Monday, June 27th, 2011
House science panel spars with Lubchenco over NOAA's climate service
The science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives this week criticized steps that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has taken to create a...
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
NOAA: U.S. unprepared for changes in Arctic ice
WASHINGTON — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is being inundated with requests for weather and ice forecasts as well as navigation information about the...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Offshore drilling pact will give NOAA scientists more say
The new agency that regulates offshore drilling has signed a kind of peace treaty with the nation's official oceanographers, giving them more input into where and how...
Friday, February 25th, 2011
NOAA to oversee study of dead baby dolphins in Gulf
NOAA will give high priority to an investigation into the large numbers of baby dolphin deaths along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, an official told the Sun Herald on...
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
House science chairman seeks to block funding for NOAA's planned ‘Climate Service’ research and monitoring program
Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is seeking to block funding for the overhaul of major federal climate change...
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record worldwide
WASHINGTON —It's a tie: Last year equaled 2005 as the warmest year on record, government climate experts reported Wednesday.The average worldwide temperature was 1.12...
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
NOAA: Warming Arctic unlikely to return to the way it was
WASHINGTON — New observations this year about snow, ice and temperatures support the conclusion that the Arctic is unlikely to return to the conditions known in the 20th...
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Federal scientists say 2010 tied for the hottest yet
The first nine months of 2010 are tied with the same stretch in 1998 as the warmest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.The data...
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