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As NOAA Cuts Continue, Ocean Researchers Worry About Monitoring Programs

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated
A global network of buoys that measure sea surface temperatures could be vulnerable because the U.S. funds about half the program.

By Bob Berwyn

Political storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five weeks.The first mass firings started in mid-February and were deemed illegal by a federal court in California on March 13. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned that decision this week, leading to the renewed terminations. 

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