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The northern lights are expected to dip farther south into the northern portion of the US Wednesday night thanks to a large burst of plasma and magnetic field from the sun that kicked off geomagnetic storm watches.

A boater was caught on video purposely hitting groups of sea lions near Hayden Island in Portland.

Searchers have located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894.

Humpback whales are dying in greater numbers along the Atlantic Coast, apparently as they follow their food closer to shore in the warming ocean waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says the U.S. is experiencing an uptick in whale strandings on the Atlantic, with nearly two dozen whales winding up dead on beaches since Dec. 1, 2022.

Government science teams say that 2022 didn’t quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who’s doing the measuring.

NOAA’s announcement came a week after Maine’s congressional delegation announced plans to use the federal spending bill to attempt to delay new protections for the whales for six years.

Predicting Chicago winter can be tricky, but three recent forecasts for the area all seem to land on the same thing.

Just like that, winter in Chicago is almost here. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it’s likely going to be a wet one.

Just like that, winter in Chicago is almost here. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it’s likely going to be a wet one.

NOAA’s Nick Underwood details his experience flying through Hurricane Ian, calling it the worst storm he’s encountered yet. “I’ve never seen so much lightning inside of a hurricane.”

At a press briefing at the National Hurricane Center Monday, NOAA and FEMA officials urged Florida residents to prepare for the impact of Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian is on track to hit Florida, and storm names that start with the letter ‘I’ seem to have a lock on notoriety.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an above-normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an “above-normal” 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. See how many hurricanes NOAA predicts.

Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.

U.S. government scientists calculate that levels of the potent heat-trapping gas methane rose at a record pace last year.

NASA launched a weather satellite into space for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday for tracking environmental hazards in the western U.S.

Tuesday, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in terms of combined sunlight and the official beginning of the winter season.

Alicia Roman has the details