Category

NOAA

NASA and NOAA Trump Funding Cuts Jeopardize These Key Climate and Space Projects NOAA

NASA and NOAA Trump Funding Cuts Jeopardize These Key Climate and Space Projects

Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends to slash climate and space science across some US agencies. At risk is research that would develop next-generation climate models, track the planet’s changing oceans and explore the Solar System. NASA’s science budget…
bubmag
April 16, 2025
Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetings because of Trump Travel Restrictions NOAA

Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetings because of Trump Travel Restrictions

FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood conferences ahead of disaster season because of Trump administration restrictions on travel for federal employees By Thomas Frank & E&E News An aerial view shows floodwaters surrounding a rural home on April 06, 2025 near Poplar Bluff,…
bubmag
April 14, 2025
NOAA budget proposal would affect weather satellite, other space programs NOAA

NOAA budget proposal would affect weather satellite, other space programs

Lockheed Martin render of NOAA's next-generation Geostationary Extended Observations weather satellite constellation. DENVER — The White House’s budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would seek to make major changes in a weather satellite program as well as transfer space weather and space traffic management efforts. NOAA received…
bubmag
April 12, 2025
Lawmakers, Ocean Advocates Decry US Government Proposal To Gut NOAA Funding NOAA

Lawmakers, Ocean Advocates Decry US Government Proposal To Gut NOAA Funding

A widely reported draft budget proposal is calling for major funding cuts to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and US lawmakers and environmental groups aren’t happy. The draft proposal would cut NOAA’s budget by over 25%, with the worst parts affected being the agency’s fisheries enforcement and research…
bubmag
April 12, 2025
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire NOAA

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Update, April 16, 2025: Janitorial services at Montlake Laboratory were restored on Monday. Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms…
bubmag
April 11, 2025
Scientific research is the lifeblood of our economy. Now, a wrecking ball has come. NOAA

Scientific research is the lifeblood of our economy. Now, a wrecking ball has come.

The first 10 weeks of the Trump administration have sent shock waves through the science community. Many expected the second Trump administration to follow the pattern of the first. But I certainly didn't expect a broad-scale assault on the U.S. science enterprise itself. Elon Musk emerged as Trump's leader of…
bubmag
April 9, 2025