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.

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.

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.

NOAA Flight Director Kerri Englert, a Lakeland-based hurricane hunter, told a Miami NBC affiliate Friday that she was one of the employees who was fired last week. She was featured in a January ...

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

T he Trump Administration has begun firing probationary employees at the federal agency tasked with overseeing weather prediction and climate research, raising concerns about the

Miami starts the day with dense fog, clearing up for warm, sunny weather, with another cold front expected on Monday.

The mass firing — of educated, specialized workers who viewed themselves as the next generation of scientists protecting life and property — could stretch NOAA’s workforce thin and hinder ...

Thursday's mass firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — including nearly two dozen on Virginia Key and more than 600 nationwide — could stall improvements to hurricane forecasting and delay seasonal outlooks.

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 ...