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Arctic sea ice succumbs to Atlantification
Satellite data reveal that warmer Atlantic waters are intruding on Arctic sea ice. The warm waters are impeding sea ice regrowth in winter.
May 26, 2021
Say hello to the world’s biggest iceberg
The world's biggest Iceberg - named A-76- cracked off of Antarctica in late May.
May 26, 2021
How do forecasters make hurricane season predictions?
The complex interplay among many factors - African monsoons, ocean temperatures, wind shear, El Niño and La Niña – that go into predicting hurricane season.
May 23, 2021
NOAA predicts another active Atlantic hurricane season in 2021
NOAA is predicting a busier-than-usual hurricane season for 2021. Although hurricane season officially starts June 1, subtropical storm Ana - which formed early Saturday off the coast of Bermuda - has already become the season’s 1st named storm.
May 22, 2021
This nocturnal dinosaur had owl-like night senses
New research shows that a small dinosaur called Shuvuuia deserti, which lived in the deserts of what's now Mongolia, had exceptional night vision and hearing, similar to modern day owls and other night predators.
May 20, 2021
Off Japan’s coast: An ancient animal symbiosis comes back to light
Scientists have found a surprising modern-day symbiosis between 2 undersea animals, which had been gone from the fossil record for 270 million years.
May 17, 2021
New clues to ancient life from billion-year-old lake fossils
We think of earthly life as evolving from the sea. But newly discovered microscopic "ball" fossils - found in ancient lake sediments in Scotland - suggest that evolution from single-celled to multicellular organisms might have occurred in lakes.
May 16, 2021
Warming is clearly visible in new US climate normals
Climatologists at NOAA have released updated climate "normals." They explain what "normal" means, how our U.S. climate normals have changed, and how to best make sense of them.
May 14, 2021
New type of aurora revealed in 19-year-old video
Scientists call it a "diffuse auroral eraser." That's because this newly named aurora first appears as a bright stripe over a diffuse auroral background. Then, when it disappears, it scrubs out the faint auroral light behind it.
May 13, 2021
Sharks navigate using Earth’s magnetic field
Longstanding mystery solved! New research shows that - just as lobsters, turtles and some birds do - sharks navigate using Earth's magnetic field,
May 13, 2021
