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A destructive tornado near Minden, Iowa in April 2024 Jonah Lange/Getty Images Widespread firings and staffing changes at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) could make the country’s weather forecasts less reliable, according to multiple researchers and the American Meteorological Society. “The consequences to the American people will…

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In one of his first acts in his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump fired several hundred employees of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The move triggered a lot of discussion in the climate community and beyond about how it will hurt critical…

Environment / March 6, 2025 I’m a meteorologist, and breaking NOAA would undermine journalists’ ability to cover the story our audiences care about most. Protesters rally outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)…

The Trump administration recently fired roughly 800 probationary employees from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Former NOAA workers warn that these cuts will have global repercussions, affecting nations and industries that rely on NOAA’s freely available data. NOAA collects and shares data, from the depths of the…

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Laid-off workers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) gathered Monday to protest their severances which were the result of Elon Musk and DOGE. As with all union layoffs, there was singing involved. Horrible, unnecessary singing. We thought a few bars of the American standard ‘Stormy Weather’ would be…

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Hundreds of NOAA workers were laid off under orders from the Trump administration. (Image credit: Byunghwan Lim/Getty Images) Scientists warn that the Trump administration's abrupt firing of hundreds of weather forecasters and climate experts across NOAA will curtail important climate research and could result in preventable deaths during extreme weather…

The Trump Administration has begun firing probationary employees at the federal agency tasked with overseeing weather prediction and climate research, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to accurately forecast hurricanes, tornadoes and other extreme weather events that have become more common in recent years. The layoffs affect the National Oceanic…