In his first eight months of office, the second Trump administration has overseen the firing or buyout of more than a quarter-million employees, and cut out at least $36 billion in science funding, according to a dataset compiled by Scienceline. The science funding deficit is set to reach $163 billion by 2026, with institutions ranging from the Weather Service to the National Parks seeing their funding cut. Researchers, citizen scientists, and science communicators across the US are now havin...| Scienceline
In 1997, countries around the globe debated whether or not to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The idea that humans were altering the global climate was still very new — but now, a handful of citizen scientists had uncovered evidence that suggested something even more unsettling: the change wasn’t just coming. It had already begun. Four months before countries had to decide, scientists at the British Trust for Ornith...| Scienceline
Since President Donald Trump assumed office in January, there has been a supernova of stories related to science, climate change and academic funding. Executive orders, staffing shake-ups, and sweeping policy reversals have kept science journalists working overtime to follow the facts. But beyond filing stories at record speed, some are also grappling with burnout, uncertainty and the emotional toll of covering a field under siege. How are journalists keeping up, doing their jobs well and sti...| Scienceline
Twice a day, until recently, technicians at the National Weather Service (NWS) released balloons into the atmosphere from nearly 100 locations. As these balloons sailed upward, small data collection instruments called radiosondes went with them, capturing the atmospheric data that — along with information from ocean buoys, satellites, and even hurricane-hunting aircraft — feeds the computer models meteorologists around the country use to predict the weather. Now, following a series of bud...| Scienceline
