US government forecasters predicted on Thursday a milder Atlantic storm season this year than in 2008, with four to seven hurricanes, as many as three of them with highly destructive potential. The specialists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said there was a 70 percent probability that nine to 14 tropical storms powerful enough to be named will ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be fairly average with as many as seven hurricanes expected to form, U.S. government forecasters predicted on Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast nine to 14 named storms this season, with four to seven developing into hurricanes. One to three could be major ones of Category 3 or higher ...

Government scientists believe they have some good news about the endangered right whale, whose population in the Atlantic Ocean is struggling to come back. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday they have found evidence of a significant right whale population in waters off the ...