The agency is working “as quickly as possible” to update charts and weather products to reflect Trump’s order to use Gulf of America.

Their work also includes forecasting changes, and sharing said changes, about our oceans. What happens in our oceans can affect what happens over land. NOAA helps manage observations for the coast, the oceans and Great Lakes areas. The oceans provide Earth’s largest livable space thus accounting for their being more life than on land.

Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.

They explained their reason why in a viral thread, saying: "We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.