(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Believe it or not, meteorological spring is just about to wrap up. With May starting to come to a close, June marks the beginning of meteorological summer. The seasons, as defined by meteorologists, break down as such: This year, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow and thus predicted an early spring. […]
Construction on a state-of-the-art, $147 million ocean and climate operations center has begun at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday.
The spring of 2020 saw one of Southern California’s most prolific red tides on record, and while the bioluminescence left beaches from Santa Barbara down through Baja California with ravishing visual displays at night, the algal inundation – more of a chocolate-brown than a crimson-red– resulted in .
The number of fish on the government's overfishing list sunk to a new low last year in a sign of healthy U.S. fisheries, federal officials said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated analysis of American fisheries late last week via its annual "Status of the Stocks" report, which provides an assessment of the populations of the seafood species fishermen catch and customers buy. The report states that 94% of fish stocks are not subject to overfishing, which is slightly better than a year ago.