http://www.mail.com/organizations/37070-national-oceanic-atmospheric-administration.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/37070-national-oceanic-atmospheric-administration.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1827798-camera-maine-island-streams-gray-seal-video.html PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A camera that records seal-pupping activities on a remote Maine island began streaming live to the public Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar b... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1827798-camera-maine-island-streams-gray-seal-video.html 2013-01-17T23:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1822496-world-warm-year-record-us-heat.html WASHINGTON (AP) — While the U.S. was smashing heat marks last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hottest years on record, two American science agencies said Tuesday. The global average temperature for last year would have been a record 15 years ago, an indication that what used to be unusual heat is more commonplace. Now it merely r... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1822496-world-warm-year-record-us-heat.html 2013-01-15T19:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1806724-us-seared-hottest-year-record.html WASHINGTON (AP) — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking tempera... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1806724-us-seared-hottest-year-record.html 2013-01-09T00:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1793186-federal-government-lists-2-ice-seals-threatened.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two types of ice seals joined polar bears Friday on the list of species threatened by the loss of sea ice, which scientists say reached record low levels this year due to climate warming. Ringed seals, the main prey of polar bears, and bearded seals in the Arctic Ocean will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act,... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1793186-federal-government-lists-2-ice-seals-threatened.html 2012-12-31T15:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1786284-west-coast-girds-tsunami-debris-winter.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast. Armed with index-size cards, beachcombers will log water bottles, buoys, fishing gear and other possessions that might have sailed across the Pacific ... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1786284-west-coast-girds-tsunami-debris-winter.html 2012-12-25T15:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1779984-2012-record-setter-fits-climate-forecasts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought. And fall hit the eastern third of the country with the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. This past year's weather was deadly, costly and record-breaking everywhere — but especially in the United States. If that sounds fam... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1779984-2012-record-setter-fits-climate-forecasts.html 2012-12-20T20:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761420-noaa-chief-will-leave-february.html NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was a key figure in the federal government's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her post at the end of February. "I have decided to return to my family and academia," Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote to NOAA employees... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761420-noaa-chief-will-leave-february.html 2012-12-12T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1756446-energy-experts-drilling-cleaner.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. A thousand miles away on the plains of north Texas, there's a drilling boom, too, but some air pollution levels have declined. Opponents of drilling point to Colorado and say it's dangerous. Companies point to Texas and say drilling is safe. ... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1756446-energy-experts-drilling-cleaner.html 2012-12-10T18:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1712300-violent-dolphin-deaths-mystery-scientists.html ALONG THE GULF COAST (AP) — Over the past several months, dolphins have washed ashore along the northern Gulf Coast with bullet wounds, missing jaws and hacked off fins, and federal officials said they are looking into the mysterious deaths. The most recent case was of a dolphin found dead off the coast of Mississippi, its lower jaw missing. Officials fro... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1712300-violent-dolphin-deaths-mystery-scientists.html 2012-11-19T23:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1662338-sandy-storm-surge-pose-worst-case-scenario.html KENSINGTON, Md. (AP) — The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a "worst case scenario" with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro area, government forecasters said Sunday. The more they observe it, the more the experts worry about the water — which usually kills and does more damage than winds in hurr... Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1662338-sandy-storm-surge-pose-worst-case-scenario.html 2012-10-29T04:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1660966-frankenstorm-worse-than-sum-parts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster. How did it get that way? Start with Sandy, an ordinary lat... Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1660966-frankenstorm-worse-than-sum-parts.html 2012-10-28T14:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1661300-frankenstorm-worse-than-sum-nasty-parts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with persistent high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster. What forces created it? Start with Sandy, an or... Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1661300-frankenstorm-worse-than-sum-nasty-parts.html 2012-10-28T03:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1654488-forecasters-warn-east-coast-frankenstorm.html WASHINGTON (AP) — All the spare parts appear to be coming together to create what forecasters are calling "Frankenstorm," a monster combination of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow that could cause havoc along the East Coast just before Halloween next week. Hurricane Sandy, having blown through Haiti and Cuba on Thursday, continues to ba... Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1654488-forecasters-warn-east-coast-frankenstorm.html 2012-10-25T19:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1639398-noaa-warm-winter-west-east-who.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal meteorologists are forecasting a milder and drier winter for much of the western United States, but say they are stumped about what will happen in the East. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday predicted a warm winter for west of the Mississippi River with a cooler patch for Hawaii and the Florida peninsul... Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1639398-noaa-warm-winter-west-east-who.html 2012-10-18T14:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1631418-world-matched-record-hottest-september-.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Something about September keeps bringing out the record heat in the world. The globe last month matched a record for the hottest September, set in 2005. It was the third time since 2000 that the world set or tied a heat record for September. In addition to 2012 and 2005, previous hot September records were set in 2003. And these records ... Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1631418-world-matched-record-hottest-september-.html 2012-10-15T15:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1624314-experts-puzzled-lone-dolphin-cayman-islands.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Stinky the dolphin is lonely, and he's getting way too frisky with humans. The lone male bottlenose dolphin has been cavorting for months in waters off the Cayman Islands, a rare case of a solo dolphin far from a pod of his fellows. The sight of the dolphin has delighted many boaters, swimmers and divers, but his antics dismay... Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1624314-experts-puzzled-lone-dolphin-cayman-islands.html 2012-10-11T20:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1584896-east-coast-weather-satellite-fails-spare-used.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. weather satellite that tracks the East Coast and Atlantic hurricanes is broken. Meteorologists are scrambling to fill in lost data for forecasters with a spare satellite and help from a European satellite. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman Scott Smullen said engineers shut down the East Coast satellite on... Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1584896-east-coast-weather-satellite-fails-spare-used.html 2012-09-24T19:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1504876-forecast-us-drought-lingering-leveling.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — The worst drought in the U.S. in decades may be leveling off or even be easing ever so slightly in some lucky locales, federal weather forecasters announced Thursday in a report of little comfort for farmers and ranchers who already have begun tallying this year's losses. While the latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1504876-forecast-us-drought-lingering-leveling.html 2012-08-16T18:40:00Z