A Few Surprises in Alaska’s Marine Environment in 2024 – NOAA
NOAA Fisheries releases their annual Ecosystem Status Reports including a new report card for the northern Bering Sea which shares some promising news about sea ice conditions…
Trump Victory Is a ‘Gut Punch’ to U.S. Climate Action – Scientific American
President-elect Trump vowed to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse Biden administration climate efforts..
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports – the Atlantic
Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
How this summer’s brutal hurricanes might one day save lives – Grist Magazine
Cyclones aren’t just made of wind and rain — they’re full of data. That’ll help researchers improve the forecasts that determine whom to evacuate…
Emerging La Niña could play major role in this year’s hurricane season – the San Francisco Chronicle
On Thursday, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration released its 2024 hurricane season outlook. The agency predicts an active season in the Atlantic hurricane region, with its most aggressive May forecast on record. The Atlantic hurricane region includes the north Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico….
The surprising reasons thunderstorms are more destructive than ever – the Washington Post
There were a record-setting 28 billion-dollar disasters last year, causing $94 billion in damage. Thunderstorm events accounted for 19 of those disasters, and more than half of the costs. A decade earlier, seven thunderstorm events topped $1 billion in damage…
Denial and Deception – Gary Griggs
Earth’s temperature continues to climb to uncharted levels. Two weeks ago, NOAA announced that April was the 11th month in a row that set a new record for the highest monthly temperatures. While there are many enviable records, in sports for example, when it comes to global temperatures, this is not a record anyone wants to own. While 2023 was the hottest year on record since we began tracking temperatures nearly 150 years ago, there is a high probability based on the first four months of this year that 2024 will surpass 2023. Another statistic in which we cannot rejoice…
‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet – CNN World
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record…
Corals are bleaching in every corner of the ocean, threatening its web of life – the Washington Post
First around Fiji, then the Florida Keys, then Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and now in the Indian Ocean. In the past year, anomalous ocean temperatures have left a trail of devastation for the world’s corals, bleaching entire reefs and threatening widespread coral mortality — and now, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and International Coral Reef Initiative say the world is experiencing its fourth global bleaching event, the second in the last decade…