Austyn Gaffney
Reporting Fellow, NYT Climate at The New York Times
reporting fellow @nytclimate | [email protected] | past: freelance from Kentucky for @rollingstone, @guardian, @grist, @oxfordamerican, etc
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Austyn Gaffney
The outline for the 2026 budget passback, which would need to be approved by Congress, suggests "significant reductions to education, grants, research, and climate-related programs within NOAA" and comes after the dismantling of other agencies like the National Institutes of Health and USAID, and the removal of mentions of climate change from federal websites.
Trump administration cuts research funding, claiming it creates ‘climate anxiety’ - The Boston Globe
2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brad Plumer |Austyn Gaffney
The Trump administration announced that it is cutting nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate change research at Princeton University, saying that the work promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats” and increased “climate anxiety” among young Americans.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Austyn Gaffney
In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk. In Washington State, April is when millions of young Chinook salmon are released from hatcheries, where they started as tiny, pink globes, to swim downstream and rebuild the salmon population. They are part of an ecosystem that affects tribal, commercial, and recreational fishing and are a main source of food for endangered killer whales.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Austyn Gaffney
The data comes after researchers reported that the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest on record. Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center on Thursday, who said the amount of sea ice on the planet had reached the lowest level ever recorded in March.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Austyn Gaffney
Amid the torrent of executive orders signed by President Trump were directives that affect the language on government webpages and the public’s access to government data touching on climate change, the environment, energy, and public health. In the past two months, hundreds of terabytes of digital resources analyzing data have been taken off government websites, and more are feared to be at risk of deletion.
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In my home state of Kentucky, former coal strip mines are being re-reclaimed into neighborhoods that can house flood survivors. I visited over new years and wrote about what home means in the age of climate change for @nytimes https://t.co/0Trn6ymAht
