The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network 900+ sensors tracking climate currents, fishery health, ocean carbon absorption, and coastal flooding along the East Coast. Ships go out in June to start pulling it up. Congress funded it twice after Trump

Score one for NCAR/UCAR.

Court blocks NSF’s transfer of climate lab’s supercomputing facility

Proposed switch in management caused irreparable harm to NCAR, judge finds

science.org

Trump administration shuts down deep-sea instruments that monitored climate change for a decade. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership,” said a former official. Story by @eniiler.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4voqmxP

“These are among the largest, deepest and most thermally buffered freshwater systems in the Arctic and subarctic. Yet the results suggest that even these iconic lakes have undergone substantial ecological reorganization within only a few decades.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...

Pushed by climate change, Canada’s northern great lakes show signs of a biological reset

Study finds that single-cell algae that make up the base of the food chain has been almost entirely replaced by a different set of species

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WIN: A federal court ruled today that the federal government’s attempts to undercut Endangered Species Act protections for the sake of coal mining were illegal. Coal mines will now be required to follow the law and ensure their activities don’t harm protected plants and animals.

A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

Scientists--I'm a journalist looking for interesting examples of global health research that has managed to continue or adapt following the dismantling of USAID. Re-posts appreciated!

New research from @sfubiosciences.bsky.social professor Tanya Brown has found more than 200 contaminants in water and juvenile Chinook salmon in the Lower Fraser River estuary, including industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor... 🧪 #ecotox #yvr

Young Fraser River Chinook salmon swimming in chemical soup, SFU study finds

Juvenile Chinook salmon in the Lower Fraser River estuary are feeding and growing in a slurry of contaminants from pharmaceuticals, personal care products to industrial chemicals, according to a new S...

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Myself and a number of Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellows recently wrote about how massive cuts and lay-offs in federal science in Canada are super concerning due to their lack of clear strategy or transparency. Thinking of the govt scientists who have lost their jobs www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/28/c...

Canada’s nature strategy needs science and transparency, not spending cuts - The Hill Times

Protecting biodiversity requires more than targets on paper. It depends on sustained investment in three pillars of scientific capacity: long-term monitoring, scientific expertise and recovery infrast...

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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... How about no?

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

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I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

A majestic grove of 1,000-year-old redwoods in Northern California is facing an imminent threat — and it needs your help. Please take a moment to uge California Governor @governor.ca.gov to save Richardson Grove.⬇️

Speak Up to Save 1,000-Year-Old Redwoods

A majestic grove of ancient redwoods in California is facing an imminent threat. Will you speak up?

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Recovery strategies are not just paperwork. They help turn concern for endangered species into action. Our work on Mottled Duskywing recovery in Ontario has relied on this kind of public guidance. Transparency matters for species-at-risk recovery. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

Ontario won’t share recovery plans for endangered species | The Narwhal

Ontario won’t publish its plans to protect wolves, butterflies and bats, after Bill 5 dropped requirement for endangered species recovery planning

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Getting understudied taxonomic groups the conservation attention they need can be difficult. Luckily, our new paper shows that community occupancy modelling can reconstruct distribution trends for these species, and help with species-at-risk listing decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multi-species modelling to improve conservation decision-making for understudied taxonomic groups

The rapid and ongoing loss of global biodiversity has led to more species in need of legal protection, and an increasing emphasis on evaluating extinc…

sciencedirect.com

"...part of the “reorganization” announced last week involved the ceasing of most of the experimental-forest research and closure of the research stations in the U.S.F.S. network. These are the sites of experiments that can reach back for decades" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump Guts the Forest Service Ahead of Wildfire Season

Ahead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests.

newyorker.com

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

Federal Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Attacks Against Endangered Species Act, Restores Bedrock Environmental Law to Pre-Trump Status

Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

earthjustice.org

This makes me so sad, how something as beneficial as a wildlife crossing becomes polarized in this day.

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate

Southern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.

sfgate.com