Ship traffic is increasing as sea ice dwindles—not just in near-shore, territorial waters of Arctic coastal countries, but increasingly, in the high seas of the Central Arctic Ocean.

Arctic temperatures over 2021-22 were the sixth-warmest on record, based on records dating back to 1900.

Highlights from the 2022 update to NOAA's Arctic Report Card in maps and charts.

Consistent with model predictions, a warmer Arctic is increasingly a wetter one.

The 2022 melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet started slowly, but ended late, with multiple melt spikes in September.

Published :. December 2022. The purpose of this report published by the Carolina Wetlands Association is to present an overview of the state of an important but shrinking resource - wetlands in North ...

With the third La Niña winter in a row well underway, our blogger takes a look at how La Niña influences the range of winter daily temperatures.

Recent research has suggested possible ozone recovery in the upper stratosphere and decreasing ozone in the lower stratosphere. A new study supports a declining ozone trend in the lower stratosphere but no ozone “recovery” in the upper stratosphere.

A new study examines how rising global temperatures may affect weather patterns in the region stretching from the east coasts of China and Taiwan, and Japan.

A new story map recounts how NOAA scientists raced against nature to save their most valuable scientific instruments in the Bering Sea in 2021. This interactive map highlights the recovery efforts, unique data collected, and implications for management.