Jeff Tollefson

1 week ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Benjamin Thompson

Download the 30 May 2025 long read podcastWith the world looking likely to blow past the temperature targets laid out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a growing number of voices are saying that carbon removal technologies will be necessary if humanity is to achieve its long-term climate goals. If these approaches succeed, they could help nations and corporations to meet their climate commitments — and help the world to halt global warming.

1 week ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Dan Garisto

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order late last week mandating the overhaul of research-integrity policies to ensure that the federal government promotes “gold standard science” that is “transparent, rigorous, and impactful”. But many researchers fear that the order will do the opposite by putting US scientists and science under the thumb of political appointees — and they are mobilizing opposition.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson

A US laboratory that has been instrumental in documenting the impact of air pollution on human health is being shut down by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Scientists are rallying to save it.

4 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson

The administration of US President Donald Trump has blocked funding for research across the Environmental Protection Agency’s main science division, which employs nearly 1,500 people, according to sources inside the agency and internal e-mails seen by Nature.

1 month ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Dan Garisto |Max Kozlov

US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say. The budget document released by the White House on Friday for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts on 1 October, is light on details, but it calls for disproportionately large cuts for federal science funding.