Restoring Fish Habitats and Strengthening Resilience to Storms Orland is a small town in eastern Maine, located at the confluence of the Orland and Penobscot Rivers near the head of Penobscot Bay. Like many New England towns, Orland finds itself confronting aging infrastructure left over from an industrial past: a […]
NOAA Joins New Initiative to Increase Resilience to Climate Change NOAA has joined four other federal agencies in a suite of landscape-scale partnerships in areas across the country. The Resilient Lands and Waters Initiative brings agencies and partners together to improve the resilience of natural resources to climate change and […]
Today, NOAA announced $467,046 in funding for three new projects under the Habitat Blueprint. The Habitat Blueprint provides a framework for NOAA to think and act strategically—across programs and with partner organizations—to address the growing challenge of coastal and marine habitat loss and degradation. The awards to academic and non-profit […]
NOAA and partners are testing a new system to help wine growers in California’s Russian River fight crop-killing frost without danger to threatened and endangered salmon. Together, we installed eight frost inversion towers in the grape growing regions of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. When cold air settles in low elevation […]
The moi (Pacific threadfin) is known as the “fish of kings.” At one time, only Hawai’ian royalty were allowed to eat this fish. Moi was so important to the ancient Hawai’ians that they built ponds to farm these fish and sustain the population. And so it was in an ancient […]