Located only 3,000 yards from Capitol Hill, the Anacostia River is one of the Chesapeake Bay's most heavily altered and contaminated watersheds. Find out what's being done to clean it up....

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NOAA and partners from 12 organizations surveyed sites in the Florida Keys to determine the extent of coral bleaching, and death, in the wake of record low-water temperatures. ...

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NOAA researchers have found that exposing laboratory animals to a toxin produced by blooms of microscopic ocean algae can induce seizures and eventually lead to epilepsy....

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MEET: Meet Mark Bushnell, Manager, Ocean Systems Test and Evaluation Program, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services...

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The wreck site of the USS Macon, located on the seafloor within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, is now part of the National Register of Historic Places. The designation commemorates the 75th anniversary of the loss of the U.S. Navy airship....

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MEET: Meet Lynne Mersfelder-Lewis, International Affairs Specialist, NOS International Program Office.....

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On January 16, the Federal Emergency Management Agency requested NOAA's assistance in acquiring high-resolution aerial imagery for portions of Haiti impacted by the January 12 earthquake. NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Remote Sensing Division and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations Aircraft Operations Center responded to this request....

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Staff from the Office of Response and Restoration are on-scene near Port Arthur, Texas, where a major oil spill occurred on Saturday, January 23....

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MEET: Mark Monaco, Acting Director, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment....

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The NOS scientists who provide Navigation Services are also steering the nation toward conscientious uses of the marine environment....

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