Jamie R. Rhome with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center has been awarded the prestigious Service to America medal for his pioneering work in forecasting and warning the public about the deadly and destructive inundation of water associated with a hurricane’s storm surge. 

More than 45 million people across 14 Southern states are now in the midst of what’s being called a “flash drought” that’s cracking farm soil, drying up ponds and raising the risk of wildfires, scientists said Thursday.

North Carolina Sea Grant is collaborating on a new project to keep sharks away from commercial fishing gear.

Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump's statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.

Meteorologists say July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880.

Government meteorologists say this year's hurricane season may be busier than initially expected now that summer's weak El Nino has faded away.

The federal government is warning Americans to brace for a "floodier" future.

Hurricane season is well underway. Even though it's been a quiet season so far, agencies from North and South Carolina came together for what's called a Tropical Integrated Warning Team Meeting.

For the past four or five years, members of a local fishing team have been helping scientists track sharks off our coast. They say sometimes people get the wrong idea about what it is that they do, and they want to clear that up.