The firings dealt a blow to an agency that provides everything from weather forecasts to fisheries management to cutting-edge climate science in Alaska.

Current and former staff at the federal government’s leading climate agency are warning of threats to public safety following the mass firing of hundreds of employees. The first round of terminations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took place last week as the Department of Governmental Efficiency targets thousands of probationary employees who can

More federal workers were fired in Alaska yesterday, including at least four people from NOAA’s regional office in Juneau.

Avalanches kill about two dozen people annually in the U.S. Predicting their likelihood, potential severity and location depends heavily on information provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.

The lease on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site in Juneau has been canceled and the Ketchikan Federal Building appeared on a list of “non-core” properties that might be put up for sale as part of the Trump administration’s mass federal government downsizing, according to officials and published reports.

The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists and other employees in Seattle are among the estimated 880 agency staff fired Thursday across the U.S., according to Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office and union representatives.

Maintaining data collection in regions like Alaska and the Arctic is critical ... WindBorne’s technology offers a cost-effective solution: traditional NOAA weather balloons cost $500 per data profile and stay airborne for only two hours, whereas ...

Nationally, more than 800 people across NOAA, an organization of 13,000 staff members, were fired, the New York Times reported Thursday. In Alaska, it was not immediately clear how many had lost ...