Amid funding cuts and new limitations, “I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out,” this postdoc writes

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

The cuts are a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment that Congress mandated to ensure the government understands the threats posed by rising temperatures.

Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.

March 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ...

Rising temperatures and nutrient pollution allows for the growth of algal blooms that can impact drinking water and kill wildlife

Environmental justice was patching over gaps in federal law that allowed for zones of concentrated harms.

Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

Deleting websites and ignoring scientific data threatens to undo clean air and water regulations

https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-assess-the-new-legal-risks-of-your-dei-policies Wondering how universities can keep DEI initiatives moving forward despite changing regulations? A recent HBR article by ...

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National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

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“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

On the morning after the 2016 election my fellow scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and I exchanged stunned looks as we passed in the hallway. We understood—and f...

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

A biography of Kathleen Carpenter, a pioneering freshwater ecologist.

The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.

Governments worldwide collect and distribute data relevant to environmental challenges. For instance, the United States (US) federal government collects satellite imagery, climatological and weather r...