Democratic lawmakers and former agency officials said Friday that more than 600 layoffs this week at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would affect services ranging from emergency ...

“The Mariana Trench is very deep, but it’s ocean bottom,” Boston says. “So it’s not like it’s different ocean bottom—it’s just deeper ocean bottom.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts across much of central and southwest Missouri are temporarily offline as the National Weather Service in Springfield conducts a scheduled system ...

The Pacific, which holds more than half of the free water on Earth, is also our planet's deepest water body, extending to a depth of more than 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) at Challenger Deep in the ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind.--The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is officially underway—and although it’s quiet for you, it's expected to be an active one. NOAA is forecasting 13 to 19 named storms, with ...

More than 13,000 feet under the sea, scientists have found a volcanic wonderland unlike any other place on Earth. The newfound ecosystem is crawling with life—hairy snails, ghostly shrimp, and ...

But after watching the footage of Vescovo's death-defying dive to the Mariana Trench, people were more taken aback by the explorer's words when he resurfaced, rather than what he saw down there.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have surpassed 430 ppm, marking the highest seasonal peak in recorded history at Mauna Loa Observatory.

That is up to Congress and the president,” Michael Milstein, regional spokesman for NOAA Fisheries, said in a statement. Congress is expected to release the first draft of the budget this summer.

With hurricane season officially underway, worries are mounting around whether President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have endangered the nation’s disaster response.

As one of the most extreme environments on Earth, the Mariana Trench is a place where pressure is more than 1,000 times greater than at sea level, and light does not penetrate.

To better track these changes and inform the fishing industry, NOAA is now producing both seasonal and 10-year forecasts for ocean temperatures. "Our hope here is to provide more information so people ...