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.

Cuts to NOAA have decreased the number of hurricane hunter flight directors which could impact this season's hurricane forecast predictions.

But right now, NOAA’s very existence is in jeopardy. Under the direction of Elon Musk, the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has set its sights on dismantling ...

Bill Nye becomes target of MAGA after making claims about Elon Musk on CNN - Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption”

My work was very much about making NOAA more efficient,” said Kristen Don, who worked at the Newport center. “So, it’s a little bit ironic.”

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.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired