Jeff Tollefson

5 days 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 week 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.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Dan Garisto |Heidi Ledford

In just the first three months of his second term, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. His administration has fired thousands of government scientists, bringing large swathes of the country’s research to a standstill and halting many clinical trials.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted or decommissioned on the orders of US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt.

3 weeks ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson

Sometime in the next several months, a team of US scientists plans to pour a solution of antacid into the waves off the coast of Massachusetts. Using boats, buoys and autonomous gliders, the scientists will track changes in water chemistry that should allow this tiny patch of the Atlantic Ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide from the sky than it normally would.