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Federal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing fresh guidelines to help protect a vanishing species of whale. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been reviewing the speed regulations it uses to protect North Atlantic right whales, and according to spokesperson Allison Ferreira, the agency will publish new…

For the seventh consecutive year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting above-average activity for the hurricane season. NOAA says there could be anywhere from 14 to 21 likely named storms – and 10 of them could be hurricanes. Hurricane season starts June 1 — are you, your family, and your home ready for what’s ahead? Meteorologist Pete Bouchard...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced Tuesday that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season outlook is above normal. This is the seventh season with an “above average” prediction. Many factors go into this forecast, but the two largest signs of an above normal season are La Nina and a warmer Atlantic. La Nina has been ongoing, and La Nina brings...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an above-normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an “above-normal” 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. See how many hurricanes NOAA predicts.

Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.

U.S. government scientists calculate that levels of the potent heat-trapping gas methane rose at a record pace last year.

NASA launched a weather satellite into space for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday for tracking environmental hazards in the western U.S.

Tuesday, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in terms of combined sunlight and the official beginning of the winter season.

Lobster fishermen off the Maine coast must begin to remove gear from a new protected area intended to help whales, the federal government said. New rules make an approximately 950-square-mile area of the Gulf of Maine essentially off limits to lobster fishing from October to January. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the ban is enforceable, despite legal…

A type of whale that is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world lost nearly 10% of its population last year, a group of scientists and ocean life advocates said on Monday. The North Atlantic right whale numbered only 366 in 2019, and its population fell to 336 in 2020, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium said. The…

NOAA released their winter weather prediction for the 2021-2022 season Thursday morning, and it has some pretty good news for New England — if you put stock in these kinds of seasonal forecasts.

A high-tech buoy designed to enhance maritime safety is being installed in Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. State environmental officials say the buoy that measures wave height, wave period, wave direction and surface water temperature every 30 minutes will be placed about four nautical miles southwest of Cuttyhunk Island. The buoy is a joint project involving the state, the National Oceanic…

A lobster fishing group based in Maine filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday charging new rules designed to protect whales are not based on the best available science. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the rules, designed to protect North Atlantic right whales, in August. The rules include new standards that reduce the number of rope…

The United States had its hottest summer on record this year, narrowly edging out the previous milestone that was set 85 years ago during the Dust Bowl.

The construction of dozens of wind turbines off the coast of Nantucket threatens the survival of a dwindling number of endangered Northern Atlantic right whales that inhabit the waters, a group of residents on the affluent resort island in Massachusetts argue in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. ACK Residents Against Turbines said Vineyard Wind’s proposed project of some 60 turbines…

July 2021 was the hottest month on Earth since record-keeping began 142 years ago, according to data released Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — an “unenviable distinction” that could ratchet up anxiety about climate change.

Researchers say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is larger than average.

Already in the 2021 season, five named systems have formed with Hurricane Elsa being the earliest fifth named storm on record.

This month’s heavy rains follow a year in which coastal communities in the United States experienced record high-tide flooding, a trend that federal ocean researchers say is expected to continue into the future “without improved flood defenses.” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in a report released this month, said years of rising sea levels have made high-tide flooding,...