Camille Baker

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Camille Baker

The former agency directors say current employees will face an "impossible task" to maintain service just as hurricane season begins. Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives. "N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services," they write in the letter, dated Friday.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Shane Goldmacher |Ruth Igielnik |Camille Baker

Skepticism has grown of his efforts to expand his authority and of his handling of issues long seen as strengths for him, including the economy and immigration. Voters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power, and they have deep doubts about some of the signature pieces of his agenda, a New York Times/Siena College poll found.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Amy Graff |Camille Baker

Twice a day for years, meteorologists in Kotzebue, Alaska, have launched weather balloons far into the sky to measure data like wind speed, humidity and temperature, and translated the information the balloons sent back into weather forecasts and models. It's a ritual repeated at dozens of weather stations around the United States.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Flavelle |Austyn Gaffney |Camille Baker

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world's leading centers of climate research, has been hit by a new round of departures, just 24 hours after hundreds of employees were fired. About 500 employees left the agency on Friday after taking the so-called deferred resignation offer, according to three people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified by name out of fear of retaliation.

2 months ago | staradvertiser.com | Christopher Flavelle |Austyn Gaffney |Camille Baker |Ana Swanson

The Trump administration has begun firing employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science. The firings are expected to cost more than 800 people their jobs, out of a total of about 13,000 staff members, according to two people familiar with the situation who declined to be identified for fear of retribution. The notifications went out Thursday afternoon.