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Hurricane Wind Pattern in Gulf of Mexico
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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

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a close up view of the treads on a car tire
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Check the Pressure

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Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
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Coal plant

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One ocean. More than 100 moored buoys gather data on the single, contiguous, body of water that encircles the globe.
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Buoy Collects Data on the Open Ocean

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A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Alison Kock tags a shark

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An illustration of the megalodon shark.
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Ancient Giant Megatooth Shark

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Extreme close-up of great white shark skin denticles.
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Biomimicry Shark Denticles

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Follow Omoo, a Great White Shark, at she swims across the Pacific.
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TOPP cartoon of Omoo

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How do plants respond to rising CO2 levels? To find out, plant physiologist Bert Drake monitors plants used in his CO2 study at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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CO2 Marsh Study

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Photograph of a translucent red-orange comb jelly against a black sea.
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Red Mid-Water Comb Jelly

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A fringe of tentacles surrounds the bell of this jellyfish (Halicreas minimum).
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Midwater Jellyfish

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These wormlike animals make spiral tracks on the sea floor.
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Deep-Sea Worms

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