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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments

With its multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decision leaves Alaska flying blind.

By Paula Dobbyn

 A NOAA crew retrieves an Ocean Station Papa buoy in the Gulf of Alaska. Credit: Laura Dwyer/NOAA
Rep. Gabe Amo (D-R.I.) said the Trump administration “is pulling back on the very tools that help communities respond to disasters.” Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

NOAA Defends Cuts to Research and Climate Monitoring at Budget Hearing

By Gabriel Matias Castilho
Demonstrators march during a “Hands off the EPA” rally outside the agency’s offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2025. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour
The 24 new Amphipod species discovered in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a region the Trump administration is eyeing for deep-sea mining projects. Credit: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

Scientists Discover a New Branch of Life in the Deep Sea

By Johnny Sturgeon
Polymetallic nodules found in the Pacific Ocean seabed are potato-sized, rock-like formations rich in metals such as manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper. Credit: William West/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Explores Deep Sea Mining in American Samoa

By Teresa Tomassoni
A southern right whale swims with its calves in the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 5, 2022. Southern right whales are no longer reproducing at normal rates due to climate-induced changes in Antarctica. Credit: Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images

Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame

By Teresa Tomassoni
Acropora corals stick out of the water during low tide on Nov. 27, 2021, in Tatakoto, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

US Government Is Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Johnny Sturgeon
A trained team from the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Program works to free an entangled gray whale off the coast of Orange County, Calif., in December 2017. Credit: West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Whale Entanglements in Fishing Gear Surge Off U.S. West Coast During Marine Heatwaves

By Teresa Tomassoni
In Huntington Beach, California, a bird perches on a contamination containment boom in October 2021 as workers cleanup the Talbert Marsh after a spill off the coast of Huntington Beach threatens wildlife. Credit: Mindy Schauer/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

New Analysis Warns Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills

By Teresa Tomassoni
Libby Jewett, the founding director of NOAA’s ocean acidification program, retired last year amid widespread layoffs across government agencies. Credit: Danielle Pease

How Trump Derailed a NOAA Pioneer’s Move From Climate Impacts to Solutions

By Marianne Lavelle
Shedd Aquarium scientist Andy Kough measures a queen conch at a survey site near Port Everglades. Credit: Aubri Keith

Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida

By Teresa Tomassoni
A NOAA ship retrieves a buoy from the Gulf of Maine. Credit: NOAA

As NOAA Funding Lags, a Critical Ocean Weather System Nears a Breaking Point

By Ryan Krugman
Professor Ralph Keeling, son of Charles David Keeling, demonstrates how a sample of air is collected to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on April 11 as part of the Keeling Curve monitoring study at the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the US in Future Carbon Monitoring

By Marianne Lavelle
A man looks at a fallen tree in St. Catherine, Jamaica, shortly before Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday 28. Credit: Ricardo Makyn/AFP via Getty Images

‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Hits Jamaica as Risk of Climate Change-Fueled Tropical Storms Rises

By Phil McKenna
Tropical analysis meteorologist Aidan Mahoney works at his station at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami on May 30. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Can Bipartisan Support in Congress Save NOAA From White House Cuts?

By Marianne Lavelle
A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick held by a wildlife biologist on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in August 2024. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story

By Kiley Price
WIndBorne launches one of its AI-enabled, self-navigating weather balloons that stays aloft and collects atmospheric data for months. Credit: WindBorne Systems

Private Companies Step up to Gather Weather Data for NOAA as Staffing Cuts Hobble Agency Forecasting

By Meg Wilcox
The deep-sea mining vessel “Hidden Gem,” owned by AllSeas and commissioned by The Metals Co., is seen anchored at sea in Labuan, Malaysia. Credit: Jurnasyanto Sukarno/Greenpeace

Nations Denounce Deep Sea Mining Company’s Bid to Exploit Metals in the Pacific Under US Law

By Teresa Tomassoni
Klie Kliebert (right) works with the Imagine Water Works team on plans for the climate justice nonprofit’s sanctuary farm in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. Credit: Audrey Gray/Inside Climate News

Out in the Storm

By Audrey Gray

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