National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Will BP and the White House become strange bedfellows in the Gulf?
Remember that $20 billion escrow account BP is creating to cover damages in the Gulf of Mexico? It's raising hackles with environmentalists.
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Please eat this fish to extinction
In the recent wave of goodwill toward the ocean, some people are channeling the Noah's Ark approach to saving sea life while others are channeling Hungry Hungry Hippos. Check out this snack-rifice.
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Does one bad-ass summer prove climate change?
Hellish smog in Russia. Apocalyptic floods in Pakistan. The hottest May through July on record in the parts of the US. Is a "we told you so" in order?
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The Climate Post: Beating a dead climate horse
Read about the shape of the 2010 wind market, world pessimism about the U.S., activists turning to issues besides the climate bill, and more.
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We're hot as hell and we're not going to take it any more
For years, the fight for a climate bill has been led by moderate green groups. Clearly, their strategy doesn't work. Time to get mad, and then busy.
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EPA strongly reaffirms scientific basis for regulating emissions that endanger public health
The EPA denied petitions challenging the scientific basis of its finding in December 2009 that greenhouse gases endangers the health of Americans.
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The state of the climate [VIDEO]
2009 tied for fifth-warmest year since the 1880s, and 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record, according to NOAA. Watch a Climate Central video.
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60 Percent of U.S. Tidal Marshes Threatened By BP Oil Slick
New data released by NOAA shows that the massive BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is already contaminating one major protected North American Marine Ecoregion, containing more than 60 percent of America’s tidal marshes. The slick also threatens to impact at least two more Ecoregions in the near future. The site of the […]
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NOAA: Warmest May, spring, and Jan-May on record
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has published its monthly “State of the Climate Report.” The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for May, March-May (Northern Hemisphere spring-Southern Hemisphere autumn), and the period January-May. The warming in May is greatest precisely where climate science suggested it would be – the […]