Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to weather and climate research…
Also : the Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget cuts about 90 per cent of funding for one of the country’s biological and ecological research programmes.
Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the programme is part of the United States. Geological Survey and studies almost every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and waters across the country.
The proposed 2026 budget allocates $29 million to the project, a cut from its current funding level of $293 million. The budget proposal also reduces funding for other programmes in the United States. Geological Survey, as well as other federal science agencies.
The budget still has to be approved by Congress, and scientists are seizing the opportunity to save the E.M.A. In early May, more than 70 scientific societies and universities signed a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, urging him not to eliminate the programme…
Below: a recent article on climate change
