The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

When combined with Trump's federal hiring freeze, recently terminated NOAA staff said the cuts put their organization on a trajectory to break.

A now-fired “public affairs specialist” who created a multimillion-dollar cartoon for his agency is now warning that the Department of

Federal workers in Western New York are facing uncertainty as mass layoffs continue across key agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and NOAA.

NOAA offices at a waterfront complex in St. Petersburg could have their leases terminated at the end of the year, per a former agency official. Why it matters: Among them is NOAA Fisheries' Southeast Regional Office,

Hundreds of employees were fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week. The mood was grim the next morning in an atmospheric science class at the University of Missouri.

The mass layoffs are part of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) drastic cuts to the federal government.

Mark Eakin, a recently retired NOAA veteran who ran its Coral Reef Watch program for many years, told the Miami Herald he was alarmed by the “indiscriminate” slashes throughout the agency, which oversees everything from cutting-edge climate research to day-to-day operations that farmers and fishers rely on, as well as life-saving weather warnings.