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The sun sets behind a land-based wind farm in Atlantic City, N.J. on Feb. 10, 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, issued a report concluding that New Jersey's first planned offshore wind farm, Ocean Wind I, will likely have adverse impacts on whales and other marine animals, but will not seriously harm or kill them. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

NOAA: NJ wind farm may ‘adversely affect,’ not kill whales

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

A police officer in Seaside Park N.J. rides a beach buggy near a dead whale on the beach on March 2, 2023. On Tuesday, March 28, Democratic U.S. senators from four states called upon the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to address a spate of whale deaths on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The issue has rapidly become politicized, with mostly Republican lawmakers and their supporters blaming offshore wind farm preparation for the East Coast deaths despite assertions by NOAA and other federal and state agencies that the two are not related. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Dem senators from 4 states ask NOAA to address whale deaths

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Headquarters stands in Silver Spring, Maryland on June 30, 2018. (File Photo credit: Mark Van Scyoc via Shutterstock)

Federal worker who ran for Congress as a Democrat gets fired

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A female resident orca whale breaches while swimming in Puget Sound near Bainbridge Island, Wash., as seen from a federally permitted research vessel on Jan. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Orca found beached in Florida, first killer whale stranding recorded in Southeast

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This Oct. 11, 2019, photo shows cars kicking up spray while driving through a flooded street in Bay Head, N.J. Bay Head is studying options to prevent, or at least reduce, incidents of so-called “sunny day” flooding caused by tides and rising sea levels, as well as major storm-related floods. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a massive $16 billion plan to address back bay flooding along the shore. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

High tides are flooding coastal communities even on sunny days

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Scientists prepare to analyze data aboard the Okeanos Explorer ship of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. Scientists will analyze coral and fish habitats as well as map geological features, exploring new sites in deep waters around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the 22-day mission. (AP Photo/Danica Coto) **FILE**

Scientists unsure about cause of lines of holes on floor of Atlantic Ocean

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A harbor seal pokes its head out of the water in Casco Bay, Thursday, July 30, 2020, off Portland, Maine. An usual number of seals have been getting stranded and dying off Maine this summer, and avian influenza is to blame, the federal government said Tuesday July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

High number of seal deaths linked to bird flu, feds say

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

FILE - A man wades into the ocean at sunset on June 22, 2021, in Newport Beach, Calif. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday, June 3, 2022, that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May averaged 421 parts per million, more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels. The NOAA said carbon dioxide levels in the air in May have reached a point last known when Earth was 7 degrees hotter, millions of years ago. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere shoot past key milestone

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows a view of Hurricane Ida, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (NOAA via AP)

Stormy repeat: NOAA predicts busy Atlantic hurricane season

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

This combination of satellite images provided by the National Hurricane Center shows 30 hurricanes that occurred during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. According to a forecast by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released on Thursday, May 20, 2021, they expect another busy Atlantic hurricane season for 2021, but it won't be as crazy as the previous year's record-breaker. (National Hurricane Center via AP) **FILE**

Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Feds start review of endangered Southern Resident orcas

Associated Press

In this 2020 satellite image provided by the Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Allen Coral Atlas, runoff from the island of Molokai in Hawaii flows into the ocean. Recent flooding in Hawaii caused widespread and obvious damage. But extreme regional rain events that are predicted to become more common with global warming do not only wreak havoc on land, the runoff from these increasingly severe storms is also threatening Hawaii's coral reefs. (Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Allen Coral Atlas via AP)

Global warming’s extreme rains threaten Hawaii’s coral reefs

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

Steep decline in giant sea turtles seen off US West Coast

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and HAVEN DALEY - Associated Press

Contract awarded for federal port facility in Ketchikan

Associated Press

In this Sept. 7, 2004 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Underwater Vehicle Program, threadnose bass swim among black corals, octocorals, and crinoids at Horseshoe Bank, an area made up of thousands of patch reefs in the Gulf of Mexico south of the Texas-Louisiana state line. Horseshoe Bank is among 14 recently added to the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.. (NOAA and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Underwater Vehicle Program via AP)

Flower Garden Banks marine sanctuary nearly triples in size

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, the haul of Red Snapper and Triggerfish from the fishing boat Waterproof hang on the rack at the Critter Fleet in Ponce Inlet, Fla. A new study estimates there are three times the number of red snapper previously thought to swim in the Gulf of Mexico. Congress appropriated $9.5 million for the study in 2016, as arguments grew heated between recreational anglers and federal regulators. (David Massey/The Daytona Beach News-Journal via AP)

New study triples estimate of red snapper in Gulf of Mexico

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 17, 2021 file photo shows an empty irrigation canal at a tree farm in Corrales, N.M., with the Sandia Mountains in the background, as much of the West is mired in drought, with New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah being among the hardest hit. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s official spring outlook Thursday, March 18, 2021, sees an expanding drought with a drier than normal April, May and June for a large swath of the country from Louisiana to Oregon. including some areas hardest hit by the most severe drought. And nearly all of the continental United States is looking at warmer than normal spring, except for tiny parts of the Pacific Northwest and southeast Alaska, which makes drought worse. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US

By BY SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, a woman wrapped in a blanket crosses the street near downtown Dallas. As temperatures plunged and snow and ice whipped the state, much of Texas' power grid collapsed, followed by its water systems. Tens of millions huddled in frigid homes that slowly grew colder or fled for safety. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

The climate science is clear, extreme cold events are becoming less common

By James Taylor

Ice on Lake Superior up nearly 25% amid subfreezing temps

Associated Press

Federal report says pandemic hit seafood industry hard

By The Associated Press - Associated Press