Rainbows form when raindrops refract sunlight into a spectrum of colors. The brighter the sun, the clearer the rainbow.

The nomination of Neil Jacobs to run NOAA highlights U.S. President Trump’s loyalty-over-expertise approach to leadership.

Shikhadri Mahanta, an Indian doctoral student at Texas A&M University, is deeply involved in researching the application of ...

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The Commerce Department has sent NOAA officials a broad set of keywords to search grants in ways that would cover most ...

Cleaner air's impact requires a steeper reduction in human-emitted methane to meet global targets. A new study reveals that ...

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

A dramatic reduction in sulfur pollution from shipping has unintentionally contributed to recent global warming, offering a ...

The message went to some staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, the scientific agency ...

The “sun candle” or the subsun phenomenon occurs when sunlight interacts with tiny, flat ice crystals in the atmosphere, ...