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.

More than a thousand people demonstrated Monday, March 3, outside the Boulder offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in protest of President Donald Trump’s mass layoffs at the federal weather agency.

1,000 protesters gathered to oppose recent NOAA layoffs, which scientists warn could impact severe weather forecasting and disaster preparedness.