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Jet Stream Winds Will Accelerate With Warming Climate
By ucar.edu New research by the University of Chicago and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) finds that fast jet stream winds will get significantly faster by mid century because of climate change. The study, in Nature Climate Change, suggests that the fastest upper-level jet stream… SEE MORE
Ice Fishing Tips for Beginners
By Andy Nabreski As I set my last trap, the sun begins to show, illuminating the vast sheet of creaking ice that lies beneath my feet. I can no longer hear the booming, echoing hoots from the barred owl that resides along the shore of the small cove. Its call… SEE MORE
Climate Highlights of 2023
By HALEY THIEM This year was a busy year for our team at Climate.gov providing updated maps, graphs, stories, and deeper explanations of our planet’s changing climate. There were many weather and climate events across the globe from extreme rainfall, to record warmth, and a major ENSO transition (just to name a… SEE MORE
Opportunity: Virginia Wildlife Grant Applications Now Open
By Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. This is the 10th year of the Virginia Wildlife Grant Program which connects people to the outdoors. Over the past decade, nearly 245 projects have been supported at $730,000 and have connected over 70,000 participants to the outdoors! Who should apply? Organizations that are… SEE MORE
'Cryptogram' in a Silk Dress Tells a Weather Story
By noaa.gov. Sometimes a dress is just a dress. In this story, a dress becomes a kind of time travel portal, where we get to return very briefly to the Industrial Revolution and learn about the history of weather forecasting on the frontiers of North America in the 1800s. Three… SEE MORE
Boating: Assessing Our Carbon Footprint
By Eric Colby. Recreational boats account for less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report called “Pathways to Propulsion Decarbonization for the Recreational Marine Industry” commissioned by the International Council of Marine Industry Associations. The same vessels also create 0.7% of transportation carbon dioxide emissions in… SEE MORE
Wait: Hurricane Hunters Fly Winter Missions too?
By noaa.gov. This past hurricane season is history, and it’s several months until the official start of the next season on June 1. You might think the crews of the NOAA and USAF Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft get a break during that time. Not at all! They fly winter storm missions as well. NOAA's WP-3D… SEE MORE
Port of New Orleans Receives Federal Funding for New Mississippi River Container Terminal
By Mike Schuler. The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded $73.77 million by the federal government to support the construction of a major new container terminal on the Mississippi River. The funding will be provided through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s MEGA Grant Program and will be… SEE MORE
Clearing the Waterways
By Eric Colby. Abandoned vessels threaten navigation and the environment, but removing them can be complicated. Kara Diehl was in the hospital with complications from Type 1 diabetes when her phone rang. The caller was inquiring about her late father’s abandoned boat. “I didn’t know my dad had owned a… SEE MORE
Recipes for the Boat: Halibut Ceviche
By LaDonna Rose Gundersen. Celebrate the holidays with the magic of ceviche – a dish that transforms raw fish into a festive delight! Alaska halibut, my top pick for its wild-caught, sustainable goodness, takes center stage. The sweet and mild flavor dances in a citrus marinade, where the acid performs… SEE MORE
From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise
By apnews.com. CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California’s vanishing kelp forests. Hollenback floated on the swaying surface to regulate… SEE MORE
Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor
By scientificamerican.com. Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent… SEE MORE