The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has withdrawn a proposed regulation intended to protect the ...

Snow blankets Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. A major winter storm bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to some ...

NOAA has withdrawn a proposed right whale protection rule that would have required more ships to slow down in more areas.

The agency expects a minor or greater geomagnetic storm—a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field—on Saturday, which increases ...

The sun is currently at solar maximum, according to NASA, the peak of activity in its natural cycle, which is creating more ...

Crews entered frigid water to save a Maine dog who fell through the ice on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner on Tuesday.

Seacoast New Hampshire and southern Maine are bracing for the largest snowfall of 2025 to date, expected Sunday night ahead ...

Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

Officials and environmental organizations are hoping Atlantic salmon and other migratory fish will return upriver.

NOAA said fewer than 360 North Atlantic right whales remain in the world. But critics of the proposal said right whales, while seen regularly in Cape Cod Bay and the Gulf of Maine, rarely find ...

Faced with increasing operational demands and a rapidly evolving technological landscape, NOAA Fisheries is transforming how ...