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Resignation of a Top US Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence

This story originally appeared on the author’s substack newsletter, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence. Commissioner Annie Caputo, a Republican whom President […]


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Employees Kept in the Dark as EPA Dismantles Scientific Research Office

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Employees of the crucial scientific research arm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been left with more questions than answers as the agency moves to officially wind down the office following months of back-and-forth. On Friday evening, the EPA issued a press release announcing a […]


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Hundreds of NASA Employees Blast Trump Over “Wasteful Changes” to Agency

Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.


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EPA Workers Speak Up for Public Health. Then Trump Officials Sent Them Home.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave Thursday, an agency spokesperson confirmed, after they signed a “Stand Up for Science” petition using their official titles and EPA positions.  The affected employees received an email, shared […]


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Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries […]


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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]


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FDA Approved Hundreds of Drugs Without Evidence They Work. Many Are Dangerous.

Patients serve as the unwitting guinea pigs — with very real consequences.


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Here’s One Biden Climate Provision Republicans Are Unlikely to Kill

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dig down about a mile or two in parts of the United States and you’ll start to see the remains of an ancient ocean. The shells of long dead sea creatures are compressed into white limestone, surrounding brine aquifers with a […]


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Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse.

Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like […]


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Can Humor Help Solve Our Climate Crisis? David Cross Sure as Fuck Hopes So.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of […]


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The FDA Just Approved a New Covid Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just green-lit a new Covid vaccine from Moderna, the company said in a press release Saturday. Now the vaccine will bump up against an administration that is loath to recommend it. The vaccine, called mNEXSPIKE, was approved for adults 65 and older, and people between 12 and 64 years […]


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Donald Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Gut American Science

On Friday, the Trump administration released a detailed look at its proposed 2026 budget, including major cuts to federal science agencies that oversee research on everything from cancer to the cosmos. While the broad strokes of Trump’s budget had been released in early May, the new proposal reveals more about what specific programs the president […]


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