A NOAA official says that “everything has ground to a halt” at the agency as staffers have waited for Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to review more than 200 agreements

House Democrats plan to introduce legislation overnight that would prevent further Trump administration cuts to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funding or staffing after severe storms across the country drew attention to staffing cuts in National Weather Service field offices.

The chart above uses available NOAA data to show a meteoric rise in catastrophic events, largely due to severe storms like the ones currently hitting the South and Midwest. From 1980 to 2000, 96 disasters caused more than $546.

A revised biological opinion determined that the endangered species could go extinct without new precautionary measures.

The decommissioning of NOAA’s billion-dollar weather disaster database could force a rethink of parametric triggers used in catastrophe bonds and hamper

Due to scheduled maintenance on AWIPS software, NOAA weather radios will be offline until May 21. Here's how you can stay up to date with weather alerts.

McLaughlin and Department of Government Efficiency alum Bryton Shang then decide whether to send the contract on to Lutnick. While Lutnick typically reviews about two dozen NOAA contracts a week, that accounts for a tiny fraction of the total, and more than 200 contracts are languishing on his desk.

Abnormal snowmelt is sweeping across Washington state and much of the West, with rapid snowpack depletion raising concerns about future drought conditions.