NOAA’s work “isn’t a ‘nice’ thing to have—this is an absolute essential for aviation,” says Rick Spinrad, who served as NOAA ...

In a triumph for research and forecast improvement efforts, the Center's track forecast performance for 2024 was the best in ...

NOAA is best known for operating the National Weather Service, but its work stretches from the ocean bed to outer space and ...

“I’m concerned that such a search would yield threats to important programs aimed at protecting communities from extreme weather and other climate-related disasters,” said Rick ...

The Commerce Department has sent NOAA officials a broad set of keywords to search grants in ways that would cover most climate change-related projects. Why it matters: NOAA is one of the world's top ...

“If anything, these investments should be increased, not threatened,” Rick Spinrad, who led NOAA during the Biden administration, told Axios. “By virtue of the name of the program, every ...

I know how to reduce the federal budget by $7B, if we are willing to kill a few thousand Americans every year, put our economy further into ...

but will not resolve the long-term drought challenges,” said Rick Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The latest atmospheric river — a long plume of ...