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Topic: Climate

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Earth Week showcase: How NOAA Fisheries is responding to climate change

April 22, 2024

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climate adaptation strategies

Earth science news

Earth Week: Climate and Fisheries web banner

Aerial view showing restoration and conservation project planning in Maine’s Scarborough Marsh — one of the coastal zone management projects recommended for funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — will improve public access and protect areas for marsh migration. Credit: Scarborough Land Trust.

Biden-Harris Administration announces $123 million for coastal habitat restoration through Investing in America agenda

April 22, 2024

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Inflation Reduction Act

habitat restoration

America the Beautiful

Aerial view showing restoration and conservation project planning in Maine’s Scarborough Marsh — one of the coastal zone management projects recommended for funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — will improve public access and protect areas for marsh migration. Credit: Scarborough Land Trust.

Image showing a three-panel image shows a boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023), to recovered (March 2024), following extreme marine heat stress throughout the Caribbean basin in 2023.

NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event

April 15, 2024

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Image showing a three-panel image shows a boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023), to recovered (March 2024), following extreme marine heat stress throughout the Caribbean basin in 2023.

Photo showing Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. and Singapore Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations Ms. Grace Fu signed an MOU to enhance bilateral cooperation on environmental management and climate protection in Singapore on April 15, 2024.

Singapore and the U.S. enhance cooperation on environmental and climate protection

April 15, 2024

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measuring and modeling climate

Photo showing Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. and Singapore Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations Ms. Grace Fu signed an MOU to enhance bilateral cooperation on environmental management and climate protection in Singapore on April 15, 2024.

On September 27, 2023, the VIIRS instrument onboard NOAA’s JPSS satellites captured this GeoColor imagery of Canadian wildfire smoke being pulled across the Atlantic Ocean by two areas of low pressure—one swirling system can be seen in the left of this image and the other, deemed Storm Agnes by the UK Met Office, is on the right near Ireland and the United Kingdom. GeoColor imagery provides a close approximation to what you would see with your naked eye from outer space.

All in a year’s work: ‘Zooming’ into hurricanes, a new underwater vehicle and a fish mystery solved

March 26, 2024

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marine heat waves

Billion-Dollar Disasters

On September 27, 2023, the VIIRS instrument onboard NOAA’s JPSS satellites captured this GeoColor imagery of Canadian wildfire smoke being pulled across the Atlantic Ocean by two areas of low pressure—one swirling system can be seen in the left of this image and the other, deemed Storm Agnes by the UK Met Office, is on the right near Ireland and the United Kingdom. GeoColor imagery provides a close approximation to what you would see with your naked eye from outer space.

A photo of An Alaska Native woman uses a traditional ulu knife to cut strips of salmon to hang in the smokehouse at a fishing camp along the Kuskokwim River.

$1 million available to support climate resilience in remote Alaska communities

February 23, 2024

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Inflation Reduction Act

A photo of An Alaska Native woman uses a traditional ulu knife to cut strips of salmon to hang in the smokehouse at a fishing camp along the Kuskokwim River.

A shoreline view of Lake Michigan, just north of Muskegon, Michigan, on February 11, 2024. Though small chunks of ice dot the sandy beach, there is little-to-no ice coverage on the lake. Usually in February, the ice would be many inches thick at this same location, and the waves would be well off shore.

The Great Lakes this winter: Where did all the ice cover go?

February 14, 2024

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A shoreline view of Lake Michigan, just north of Muskegon, Michigan, on February 11, 2024. Though small chunks of ice dot the sandy beach, there is little-to-no ice coverage on the lake. Usually in February, the ice would be many inches thick at this same location, and the waves would be well off shore.

Photo showing A storm rolls in over Daytona Beach, Florida. (Kate Culpepper, NOAA)

Biden-Harris Administration invests $3.9 million for Ocean-based Climate Resilience Accelerators through Investing in America agenda

February 20, 2024

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Inflation Reduction Act

Photo showing A storm rolls in over Daytona Beach, Florida. (Kate Culpepper, NOAA)

Photo of Chum salmon.

U.S. Department of Commerce allocates $206K in funding for Puget Sound fishery disaster

April 17, 2024

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Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples

habitat restoration

commercial fishing

recreational fishing

Photo of Chum salmon.

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the USPTO and NOAA at the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building on January 24, 2024, in Washington, DC.

NOAA, USPTO sign collaborative agreement to advance climate technology

January 24, 2024

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technology & innovation

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the USPTO and NOAA at the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building on January 24, 2024, in Washington, DC.

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