The long-delayed 12 solicitations only cover some disciplines—and promise to give them much less money

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

Reservoirs are globally important aquatic ecosystems that provide critical anthropogenic functions, including water storage and fisheries, yet their ecosystem metabolism remains understudied. We es...

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

Congress will have to approve any Interior Department plans to abolish national wildlife refuges as staff members spend the next few weeks completing a review the US Fish and Wildlife Service has orde...

December 30, 2025 — The Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) today released a letter outlining changes to the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) definition and our response.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle, today announced a proposed rule that would establish a clear, durable, common-sense definition of “waters ...

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and...

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.

Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students d...

Trump’s cuts to Great Lakes research threaten freshwater for Ontarians.

Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.