Commercial Weather Forecasters Warn Against Breakup of NOAA
The notion of commercializing the agency’s responsibilities, including monitoring by its National Weather Service branch, ...
NOAA’s vast public weather data powers local forecasts. A private company alone can’t match it.
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...
Looming cuts at federal science agencies could undermine trust in forecasts
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency reportedly has NOAA in its sights, but too much cutting could ...
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Trump officials signal potential changes at NOAA, the weather and climate agency
Federal workers at the home agency for the National Weather Service are concerned about a potential overhaul by Trump ...
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‘National Wildland Fire Service,’ federal firefighter consolidation push kicked off by U.S. senators
U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...
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SA Weather Service suffers cyber attack
Cyber criminals have targeted the ICT systems of the South African Weather Service (SAWS). In a statement, SAWS says: “The SAWS ICT systems went down on Sunday evening, 26 January, due to a ...
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South African Weather Service breached, IT systems offline
The South African Weather Service has revealed that ... government employee in South Africa. In June, the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) was forced to shut down its IT systems after ...
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An embarrassing but predictable end to Scotland's National Care Service
The Scottish government is scrapping its plans to create a National Care Service. It is an embarrassing but perhaps predictable end to years of ambitious talk about finally coming up with a ...
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Hackers target SA Weather service - twice - hitting critical web and email systems
For climate change news and analysis, go to News24 Climate Future. The South African Weather Service said that its information and communication technology systems suffered a suspected cyberattack on ...
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What America needs is some big citizenship
What could help address all these challenges? Large-scale national service — or what we call “big citizenship.” It’s not a stretch to think this could actually happen. When one of us spoke ...
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Scottish Government drops National Care Service plans
THE Scottish Government has dropped plans for a National Care Service. In a statement at Holyrood, Social Care Minister Maree Todd admitted to the chamber the proposals do not have enough support to ...
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National Care Service championed by Sturgeon to be scrapped
The Scottish Government has scrapped plans for a new National Care Service, with Social Care Minister Maree Todd telling MSPs that she did not have enough support to get the flagship policy ...