Mark Eakin, a recently retired NOAA veteran who ran its Coral Reef Watch program for many years, told the Miami Herald he was alarmed by the “indiscriminate” slashes throughout the agency, which oversees everything from cutting-edge climate research to day-to-day operations that farmers and fishers rely on, as well as life-saving weather warnings.

Democrats representing Florida in Congress signed onto a letter urging the federal government to reconsider staffing cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS) ahead of hurricane season.

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

Lori Arguelles, a former NOAA official, spoke to Newsweek about the biggest ways Americans could be impacted by the recent cuts to the agency.

Florida Democratic Congress members have sent a letter to the director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, urging him to reconsider slashing federal jobs held by meteorologists and hurricane experts.

Layoffs last week at NOAA’s Office of Aircraft Operations, home of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, threaten to reduce the quality of data critical for hurricane monitoring, prediction, and warning. On February 28, NOAA terminated two flight directors and one electronic engineer.

NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.

Member station WLRN reported that nearly two dozen scientists based at NOAA's Virginia Key offices in Miami, Florida were laid off last Thursday, according to a NOAA biologist and a source who ...