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Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s 2027 budget by nearly a quarter.

Members of the House Science Committee rejected a proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for NASA because of sweeping cuts as the agency’s administrator argued it could do more with less.

The Trump administration is reorganizing the National Weather Service (NWS) and making changes to forecasting, while a key union representative warns the reorganization could involve potential staff cuts.

New research from consumer insights platform Ideally reveals the mission has done something the internet rarely manages: bring Americans together.

ASA recaptured the world’s attention with Artemis II, which took astronauts to the moon and back for the first time in half a century. But the agency’s scientific projects could again be under threat as the Trump administration makes a renewed push to drastically cut their funding — including at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

After two busy years with more tornado activity than normal in Wisconsin, Meteorologist Nikki Pietrus talked to experts who track those storms in the heart of tornado alley.

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 offers one of the clearest signals yet about where his administration wants federal environmental and energy policy to go.

Adjusted for inflation, the FY2027 White House budget proposal for NASA would again attempt to provide the smallest budget for the space agency since 1961.

The Trump Administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal released this week lays out significant changes to federal funding for ocean and climate programs, including cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly reduce the agency’s science programs and International Space Station operations.

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for renewable energy, environmental justice, carbon removal, space science, and climate change education in its FY 2027 budget.

The lab tracks greenhouse gases and ozone. Most staff are employed through a cooperative agreement with CU Boulder and funded through federal grants the Trump administration has not released.

The agency says its new dataset is better, but ice measurements will take time. “Bad news for climate monitoring,” one scientist lamented.

New system will provide higher-resolution weather data for aviation users.

'For us to get through that month (April) without strong to severe storms is unlikely.'

North Carolina farmers face a 'tough' 2026 with rising costs, weather woes, and global conflicts impacting their livelihoods

While the political motivations behind such a move warrant their own investigation, this article delves into NCAR’s inherent value in its current form and the impracticality of its relocation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it has reached a new agreement with the Alaska Mesonet and the seismic network operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Earthquake Center to fund nine seismic stations that support near-real-time tsunami threat information.

Climate science is real, and it has revealed that we face new, daunting challenges – ones the NOAA of the future must be built to address.

Restructuring the atmospheric research center would disrupt weather and climate data systems relied on by cities, the military and infrastructure planners, NCAR’s parent agency argues.

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Brian Babin introduced the NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act, legislation directing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to modernize and expand the NOAA Weather Radio network to strengthen nationwide emergency alert coverage.

​​The universities that oversee the National Center for Atmospheric Research allege in the suit that the center is “collateral damage” in the Trump administration’s ongoing feud with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

Discussing the importance of government science agencies to agriculture, from left: Pamitha Weerasinghe of Knowledge for a Competitive America (moderator); Harmon Wilts of H&G Farms in Minnesota; John Sokich, a National Weather Service retiree; Allison Bredder of NASA Acres; and Dave Turner of the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory.

Atmospheric and planetary scientists at Johns Hopkins warn that dismantling the nation's premiere weather-forecasting resource, NCAR, would leave us more vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events.

The National Science Foundation is accepting public comments on proposals that could restructure or break up the Boulder-based climate research center, with a deadline of March 13.

U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, secured two of his bills as provisions in the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, which was unanimously passed out of committee last week.

As emergency managers warn NOAA and National Weather Service cuts threaten public safety, the proposals would further investigate major weather disasters and invest in forecasting technology.

Twenty percent workforce reduction and defunded labs have rattled the industry

Federal science funding affects Maine in concrete ways.

The markup meeting, to discuss the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2026 and the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, lasted less than 20 minutes.