The buoys are cited as examples of how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service ...

Too many of the weather buoys floating in the waters off Alaska are out of service and the federal government should devote more resources to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in ...

In the Great Lakes, NOAA data is used for everything from going out on a boat, fishing, swimming, coastal flooding.

In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...

On Feb. 27, Mark Baltzell got the email while he was busy working to manage Columbia River salmon fisheries for NOAA in Olympia, Washington. Despite more than two decades of experience in his ...

NOAA, the agency that tracks extreme weather, has lost more than 1,000 employees since Donald Trump took office. Current and former employees worried about less accurate forecasts and aviation issues.

Anyone who interacts with the Great Lakes will likely feel the impact of these firings. The kind of science done by NOAA is technically demanding, so it remains to be seen what will happen.