The article was written by Charlie Gore.

The topic is about scientific organizations.

The news was published on Thursday, 21 May 2026, at 3:24 pm.

The CSIRO will cut 92 full-time jobs from its Environment Research Unit.

Australia's national science agency is cutting 92 jobs from its Environment Research Unit, including climate modeling staff.

The CSIRO has cut over 800 positions in the past two years and announced more cuts in November to address rising costs.

Today, the staff learned about the 92 job cuts.

Eleven of the 60 climate modelers and analysts at CSIRO will lose their jobs.

A CSIRO spokesperson said the agency is making strategic research shifts to focus on areas with the greatest national impact.

The CSIRO has already cut over 800 jobs in the last two years.

The spokesperson said the agency is exiting research areas where it lacks scale or where others can deliver better.

CSIRO will keep its climate science capability and provide data, models, and scenarios to support decision-making.

The 92 job cuts are fewer than the 102 initially proposed, thanks to consultation feedback.

The changes will reinforce CSIRO's unique capabilities in freshwater, marine, climate, and adaptation science.

But Science and Technology Australia CEO Ryan Winn said there's no guarantee other areas will pick up the global climate modeling work.

Ryan Winn says the redundancies could leave Australia more vulnerable to climate change.

Australia is the only country in the southern hemisphere contributing to these climate models.

There's no guarantee other areas can pick up this work.

No government agency has a clear mandate to fund this necessary climate modeling, and it's expected to get done anyway.

Failing to provide climate modeling could have devastating effects on research organizations and advisory agencies.

This could leave Australia and its region more vulnerable to climate change, and decision-makers without the necessary tools.

The job cuts come less than two weeks after the federal government announced a $387.4 million funding boost for the CSIRO.

The extra funding will not save any of the over 300 roles still to be cut.

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The news was published on Thursday, 21 May 2026, at 3:24 pm.

The news was updated on Thursday, 21 May 2026, at 5:04 pm.

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