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Straddling the equator, the Amazon River Basin occupies more than a third of South America. Rainfall is seasonal, shifting north of the equator in Northern Hemisphere summer and south of the equator in Northern Hemisphere winter.

What's causing the Amazon’s ongoing record drought?

February 8, 2024

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Straddling the equator, the Amazon River Basin occupies more than a third of South America. Rainfall is seasonal, shifting north of the equator in Northern Hemisphere summer and south of the equator in Northern Hemisphere winter.

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The nation just saw its 10th-wettest January on record

February 8, 2024

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EPP/MSI Undergraduate Scholarship Program Request for Proposals: 2024 Career Development Workshop

February 5, 2024

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Office of Education

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A group of people in matching blue shirts with CCME logos pose in front of a large, docked vessel.

NOAA EPP/MSI CCME II — Developing student scholars to scientists

January 30, 2024

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GOES-U, the last of NOAA’s advanced GOES-R series of satellites, arrives safely at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 23, 2024, to begin final preparations for its upcoming launch.

NOAA’s GOES-U satellite arrives in Florida, readies for spring launch

January 24, 2024

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geostationary satellite (GOES)

GOES-U, the last of NOAA’s advanced GOES-R series of satellites, arrives safely at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 23, 2024, to begin final preparations for its upcoming launch.

Lava flows released during the Mauna Loa volcano’s 2022 eruption buried a mile of the access road and destroyed adjacent power lines below the eight-acre campus.

Department of Energy to help NOAA’s Mauna Loa observatory go net-zero

January 23, 2024

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Lava flows released during the Mauna Loa volcano’s 2022 eruption buried a mile of the access road and destroyed adjacent power lines below the eight-acre campus.

NAAEE and NOAA extend transformative eeBLUE partnership

January 17, 2024

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Office of Education

A collage of photos each showing an activity from the eeBLUE aquaculture literacy mini-grants. Activities shown range from observing and tending to oysters to cooking seafood and talking with teachers.

Applying for 2024 aquaculture literacy mini-grants? Register for informational webinar

January 16, 2024

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Office of Education

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Aquaculture Literacy

A collage of photos each showing an activity from the eeBLUE aquaculture literacy mini-grants. Activities shown range from observing and tending to oysters to cooking seafood and talking with teachers.

A group of 67 attendees from the workshop gather in the lobby of a building and look up for a group photo.

Report: Lessons from the field of community resilience education

January 12, 2024

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Office of Education

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Environmental Literacy Program

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July 3, 2023: An aerial view of low water levels at Woodhead Reservoir in Glossop, England, after the United Kingdom sweltered through its hottest June on record. 2023 was the world’s warmest year on record, beating the next warmest year (2016) by a record-setting margin of 0.27 of a degree F (0.15 of a degree C).

2023 was the world’s warmest year on record, by far

January 12, 2024

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temperature rankings

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State of the Climate

July 3, 2023: An aerial view of low water levels at Woodhead Reservoir in Glossop, England, after the United Kingdom sweltered through its hottest June on record. 2023 was the world’s warmest year on record, beating the next warmest year (2016) by a record-setting margin of 0.27 of a degree F (0.15 of a degree C).