“The Mariana Trench Marine National Monument has long-standing ancestral and cultural connections to the nearby residents,” said Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries Janet Coit.

Sean Macduff, Mariana Trench Marine National Monument superintendent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus while the ship was docked portside at the Jose ...

The Pacific, which holds more than half of the free water on Earth, is also our planet's deepest water body, extending to a depth of more than 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) at Challenger Deep in the ...

The Mariana Trench Visitor Contact Station is now open at American Memorial Park. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Wednesday. The contact station aims to connect local communities and visitors ...

Possible microbes in the Mariana Trench hint at life on Jupiter’s moon. During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be ...

NOAA leaders stress that the 2024 season should serve as a reminder of why forecasting is so vital to ensure that as many people are as prepared as possible during hurricane season.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is "fully staffed" with weather forecasters and scientists after ...

Meteorologists from the NOAA estimates between 13 to 19 total named storms for the 2025 season that includes 3-5 major hurricanes that can be classified as a category 3, 4 or 5. These hurricanes ...

At 18 feet above sea level, Solares Hill is the highest point of land in Key West, yet the lofty elevation would have been no ...

(WAND) - The U.S. National Weather Service in Lincoln announced that NOAA weather radios will be offline for longer than expected. The agency originally said that the radios would be offline from ...

NOAA’s National Weather Service in May forecast an above-average June 1-Nov. 30 hurricane season with six to 10 hurricanes. Its director, Ken Graham, said at the time he did not expect job cuts ...