The agency that leads most of the government’s work on ocean and coastal health as well as climate research is one among those being targeted by Trump.

At least 500 staffers, mostly probationary workers including 375 who work at NOAA’s National Weather Service offices nationwide, were notified via email.

The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency.

Experts caution the groups play a key role in ensuring agencies use the best available science in their decision making.

The latest round of cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency, led by tech billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk, are expected to impact at least 10% of NOAA’s workforce with more cuts potentially on the horizon.

The National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration is responsible for providing weather watches and warnings, monitoring and studying Earth's climate, as well as operating weather satellites and protecting marine life.

The agency “offered no reasoned explanation for declining to protect the threatened coral species from their gravest threat, climate change,” a federal

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,

Protesters gathered in Boulder, Colo., following the Trump administration’s firing of hundreds of staff from the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. KUSA’s Angeline McCall explains how the job cuts could impact the community and the country.

The federal government has ended funding for a program that has supported the state’s marine industry for more than 50 years.