Andy Hazelton learned he’d been fired the same way everyone else did. Like hundreds of his colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, he received a mass email from the head of the agency at around 3:45 p.m. on Feb. 27 confirming his termination, effective immediately. “They gave us ’til 5,” said…
2024 to be world’s hottest year on record, per EU scientists 2024 is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, according European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. An unseasonably warm week across Central Indiana could close out with thunderstorms. Daily high temperatures will gradually climb throughout the week to the…
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…
The body of a Colorado man who went missing two weeks ago has been found, according to the resort he was visiting. The man has been identified as 26-year-old Connor Gill from the Denver metro area, according to television stations KMGH-TV and KKTV. His remains were found Friday. Gill was visiting Vail Mountain ski resort in…
UPDATED with latest: Last month’s Palisades and Eaton wildfires caused between $28 billion and $53.8 billion in property damage, with business disruptions projected to result in economic losses of up to $8.9 billion in Los Angeles County alone over the next five years, according to a study published today. There’s a large delta between $28…
Hundreds of staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, were laid off Thursday as the Trump administration and its newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, continue slashing the federal workforce. A congressional source told CBS News the layoffs affected 880 NOAA employees. An administration official told CBS News about 5% of…
A procession of winter storms continued across the United States Tuesday, threatening more than 80 million from the Midwest to the East Coast with a mix of potentially severe weather. “A winter storm will bring heavy snow and ice to the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic through Wednesday,” the National Weather Service said. “Significant ice is…
Democrats on Capitol Hill, and sources familiar with the situation, said the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been inside the offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The White House DOGE team is a cost-cutting initiative created by President Trump to find ways to trim federal spending. Billionaire Elon Musk…
BOSTON (AP) — Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures as tens of millions of residents along the East Coast contend with a thick blanket of snow — and more snowfall in the forecast. Winter storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service…
A tsunami warning was briefly issued Thursday following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in California’s Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin. Cellphones in the coast regions of Northern California and Southern Oregon rang out with an “Emergency Alert” at 10:51 a.m. PST. Just before noon…