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Latest Releases:

Marine navigation system to increase safety, commerce in Northwest

13 Jun 2022

Marine economy continues to power American prosperity, despite 2020 downturn

9 Jun 2022

NOAA begins process to potentially protect waters off New York, New Jersey

8 Jun 2022

NOAA, NFWF grant $25.2 million for emergency coastal resilience

6 Jun 2022

NOAA and partners launch high definition exploration of historic shipwrecks

12 May 2022

New Board of Directors to share expertise and tackle challenge of marine debris

6 Apr 2022

U.S. coastline to see up to a foot of sea level rise by 2050

15 Feb 2022

NOAA names Long Island Sound estuary as a protected place

20 Jan 2022

New NOAA report shows U.S. ocean enterprise sector grew 60 percent since 2015

7 Dec 2021

NOAA considers marine sanctuary off Hawaiian Islands

19 Nov 2021

NOAA and NFWF grant $39.5 million for national coastal resilience projects

18 Nov 2021

NOAA analyses to inform aquaculture siting in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California

16 Nov 2021

NOAA announces process to designate national marine sanctuary off central California

9 Nov 2021

Protections restored for marine national monument in U.S. Northeast

7 Oct 2021

Analysis shows coral loss of 14% worldwide

5 Oct 2021

NOAA awards $2.3 million to study Gulf of Mexico natural resource management

15 Sep 2021

NOAA awards $41 million for ocean observing

14 Sep 2021

NOAA awards $7.3 million for marine debris removal, prevention, and research

9 Sep 2021

NOAA announces $4.6 million in coastal and infrastructure resilience grants

7 Sep 2021

NOAA proposes National Estuarine Research Reserve in Connecticut

3 Sep 2021

U.S. high-tide flooding breaks records

14 Jul 2021

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