Global warming vs. climate change: What's the difference?

Hint: One is a symptom of the other

How valuable is your coastal county, state or region?

Click through this map tour of ocean and Great Lakes economies

Study: Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine life

Surface waters could threaten shelled animals

Just how noisy is the ocean?

New NOAA research under way to monitor underwater sound

• Risk of severe weather across much of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes
• May 2015 was warmest May on record for globe; March–May and year-to-date also record warm
  
• Strengthening El Nino unlikely to provide relief to drought-stricken western U.S. this summer
  

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

All Releases

• NOAA, partners predict an average ‘dead zone’ for Gulf of Mexico
• Cordell Bank, Farallones national marine sanctuaries expanded
• NOAA deploys survey ships for Arctic charting projects
• Combating dengue with infectious disease forecasting
• National Water Center opens on University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa

Get Our Wallpaper and Poster