The administration’s hiring freezes and dismissal of probationary staff will be devastating to our mission, as we are losing some of our best young, brilliant scientists’ — Nick Tolimieri, president o

A California weather expert is one of many issuing a dire warning after reported firings within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which also includes the National Weather Service. The Trump administration reportedly started the mass firings,

Elon Musk has spent the past month destroying the U.S. federal government with his team of DOGE goons, taking a chainsaw to USAID, NOAA, Social Security, and countless other vital agencies. And while President Donald Trump is ostensibly the guy in charge of the country,

The Trump administration says cuts are coming to NOAA. Without its weather forecasting, insurance companies may refuse to provide coverage in high-risk areas.

In an email statement, Illinois' 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen said some of the firings impacted workers at the Quad Cities branch of the National Weather Service.

A federal judge in California ruled late Thursday President Trump and Elon Musk’s mass firings of probationary government employees were illegal, siding with a coalition of labor unions and nonprofit groups.

At the moment, though, it is science itself that is being shaped. Mere weeks into the second Trump administration, scientists worry that their flagship institutions are under assault. The National Scientific Foundation ( NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ),

By Valerie Volcovici, Rich McKay and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists and researchers are warning that the Trump administration's firing of hundreds of workers at NOAA, the agency that provides the U.

Mark Eakin, a recently retired NOAA veteran who ran its Coral Reef Watch program for many years, told the Miami Herald he was alarmed by the “indiscriminate” slashes throughout the agency, which oversees everything from cutting-edge climate research to day-to-day operations that farmers and fishers rely on, as well as life-saving weather warnings.

Jay Grymes notes there are likely inefficiencies within NOAA that could be addressed, but cautions that weakening core weather and climate roles could pose serious risks to Louisiana.