Set against the austere peaks of the Western Brooks Range, the lake, looked like it was boiling. Its waters hissed, bubbled and popped as a powerful greenhouse gas escaped from the lake bed.
The report on Wood Buffalo National Park says industry, dams, climate change and natural cycles are sucking the lifeblood from the vast delta of northeastern Alberta's Peace and Athabasca rivers
Researchers anticipate harmful nitrogen outputs to increase as a result of precipitation changes.
Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.
Tropical, tube-shaped animals called pyrosomes, known as "fire bodies,"; appear by the millions off the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. No one knows why.
In dives to the seafloor, scientists have noticed big differences in only a few years.
Over the past few months, a massive toxic bloom of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, stretching from central California to the Alaska Peninsula, has resulted in significant impacts to coastal resources and marine life. NOAA has been working closely with federal, state, tribal, academic, and other partners to respond to this unprecedented harmful algal bloom (HAB).
The 'blob' caused it this time around. But oceans will keep getting warmer in the future.
A mysterious anthrax outbreak over the summer killed more than 2,300 reindeer and at least one child.
Officials hope a 9-day break from Lake Okeechobee releases into the St. Lucie Estuary will allow a saltwater recharge to help keep algae at bay.
The state Department of Health announced Wednesday that a Saratoga County resident died in recent months after contracting a rare tick-borne illness known as Powassan Virus.
A NOAA-sponsored report shows that the warming trend transforming the Arctic persisted in 2017, resulting in the second warmest air temperatures, above average ocean temperatures, loss of sea ice, and a range of human, ocean and ecosystem effects.
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