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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Landsat 9 satellite onboard launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.

Landsat 9 will capture satellite images of a radically changing Earth, NASA scientist says

Science & Technology

Josh Willis, who works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech in Pasadena, California, has used Landsat satellite images in his own work. He joins The World’s host Marco Werman to discuss the power of Landsats to understand climate change. 

After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of

2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?

Environment
A lobster sits in a holding bin before having its claws banded onboard the lobster boat "Wild Irish Rose" in the waters off Cape Elizabeth, Maine August 21, 2013.

The Swedes want North American lobster out. And the Americans are fighting back.

Business

Obama’s proposed budget cuts funding for rescuing animals, like dolphins beaching on Cape Cod

Environment

Obama’s rock star science team

Environment

NOAA Surveys US Coastal Waters for Leaking Shipwrecks

Arts, Culture & Media

There’s a new study out about the risk of ocean pollution caused by shipwrecks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has come up with a map of the many, many shipwrecks that dot US coastal waters.

The World

NOAA Signed Off on Gulf Drilling Plans

In 2007, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, charged with protecting marine life, approved the federal offshore drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico that would lead to BP’s disastrous oil spill.

The World

A Sea Change for Ocean Management

The Obama administration wants a comprehensive policy for managing our oceans, to better coordinate fishing, shipping and offshore energy while improving ocean ecosystems. Host Jeff Young talks with fishermen and offshore wind developers trying to share s

Lubchenco’s Climate Service

New NOAA head Jane Lubchenco wants a National Climate Service to help Americans plan for the challenges a changing climate will bring to our water, land, cities and crops.

Science on Hold

The President continues to do without his choices for science advisors, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco ?stuck in Senate limbo since anonymous holds were put on their confirmations.