Federal employees who monitor and forecast the nation’s weather and climate have been hit with a wave of mass firings.

The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency.

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The National Oceanics and Atmospherics Administration is responsible for providing weather watches and warnings, monitoring and studying Earth's climate, as well as operating weather satellites and protecting marine life.

NOAA began firing probationary employees Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s mass cutbacks of the federal workforce. It wasn’t immediately clear how many staffers were fired across the nation’s premier climate,

Experts caution the groups play a key role in ensuring agencies use the best available science in their decision making.

Gordon said he accepted a buyout offered to federal workers by the Trump administration and will retire from the industry after 40 years of service.

A now-fired “public affairs specialist” who created a multimillion-dollar cartoon for his agency is now warning that the Department of

Former television host Bill Nye the “Science Guy” suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency is performing “corruption” and targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with plans to replace its weather satellites with Elon Musk‘s Starlink satellites.

By Brad Brooks BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters) -Over 1,000 protesters gathered outside a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, decrying Trump administration layoffs of what two current employees said were upward of 10% of scientists there.