Quick Take — Alarmed by Trump’s cuts, scientists are talking weather and climate science. For 100 hours

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…

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Quick Take — Senatorial commission on Perrier: the Presidency of the Republic knew, at least since 2022, that Nestlé had been cheating for years

was aware that this created a distortion of competition with other mineral water producers and was aware of bacteriological and even virological contamination on some wells.

Among the many things Nestlé did to conceal the fraud: removing “the list of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides) that have been banned for some of them for 20 years, such as atrazine. No more PFAS, chlorates and other perchlorates. Above all, the table quoting the frequency of detection of E.Coli bacteria and intestinal enterococci for the period 2020-2023 is out.

The entrepreneur: Aldo Bassetti, beer and ‘family’ water

After the First World War, the Bassettis thus acquired two of the oldest Italian breweries, Spluga in Chiavenna and Birrificio Angelo Poretti in Induno Olona. Thanks mainly to the latter, Aldo Bassetti took his beer to southern Italy and imported and distributed the great Danish brands Tuborg and Carlsberg. In addition to beer, Bassetti invested in mineral water, for example producing Frisia mineral water in the Spluga plant, which in the 1980s became the first to be marketed in Milan.