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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Raymond Zhong |Austyn Gaffney |Christopher Flavelle
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster season approaches. The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Rachel Nostrant |Minho Kim |Luke Broadwater |Colby Smith |Ana Swanson |Maya Miller | +14 more
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1 month ago | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Raymond Zhong |Austyn Gaffney |Christopher Flavelle
By Raymond Zhong, Austyn Gaffney and Christopher FlavelleThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster season approaches.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Raymond Zhong |Austyn Gaffney |Christopher Flavelle
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation's premier agency for weather and climate science, is set to lose another 1,000 workers under the Trump administration's downsizing of the federal government. The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks.
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1 month ago | 
virginislandsdailynews.com | Raymond Zhong
Kelly Brunt wasn’t the only federal employee to be laid off this month while traveling for work. But she was almost certainly the only one whose work trip was in Antarctica. Brunt was a program director at the National Science Foundation, the $9 billion agency that supports scientific advancement in practically every field apart from medicine.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Raymond Zhong
When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska's volcano monitoring agency raised its alert level to ensure that nearby communities and passing airplanes would have ample warning of any eruption. The Trump administration's cost-cutting campaign has put this work in jeopardy.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Raymond Zhong
Dr. Brunt was a program director at the National Science Foundation, the $9 billion agency that supports scientific advancement in practically every field apart from medicine. As part of the Trump administration's campaign to shrink the federal government, roughly 10 percent of the foundation's 1,450 career employees lost their jobs last week. Officials told staff members that layoffs were just getting started. Yet the office where Dr. Brunt worked has an importance that goes beyond science.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Raymond Zhong
At the annual gathering in Boston this week of one of America's oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats to humankind: runaway artificial intelligence, toxic "forever chemicals," the eventual end of the universe. But the most urgent threats for many scientists were the ones aimed at them, as the Trump administration slashes the federal scientific work force and cuts back on billions of dollars in funding for research at universities.
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2 months ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Christopher Flavelle |Austyn Gaffney |Raymond Zhong
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate science agencies, has been ordered to identify grants related to global warming and other topics targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders, raising fears that those grants are at risk of being canceled. The instructions were issued Thursday at the direction of the Commerce Department, which includes the NOAA, according to a copy of the document viewed by The New York Times.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Christopher Flavelle |Austyn Gaffney |Raymond Zhong
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world's leading climate science agencies, has been ordered to identify grants related to global warming and other topics targeted by President Trump's executive orders, raising fears that those grants are at risk of being canceled. The instructions were issued on Thursday at the direction of the Commerce Department, which includes NOAA, according to a copy of the document viewed by The New York Times.
