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The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking …
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades [New York Times, no paywall] – The reporters analyzed 35 years of grants funded by the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at …
SciLit: “How a little-noticed tax and a bureaucratic cap could reshape U.S. innovation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 today, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sweeping reconciliation bill intended to implement key components of the Trump administration’s fiscal agenda. Among its most controversial implications are those for science. You can read …
Apple Podcast: Michael Lewis, acclaimed author of The Big Short, Moneyball and The Fifth Risk joins Lovett to discuss his most recent book, Who is Government? Lewis and his coauthors profile the civil servants whose thankless and unglamorous work prevents mines from collapsing, castaways from drowning, and rare diseases from killing people. He and Jon …
MIT Technology Review: “…The choice of natural gas as the go-to solution to meet the growing demand for power from AI is not unique to Louisiana. The fossil fuel is already the country’s chief source of electricity generation, and large natural-gas plants are being built around the country to feed electricity to new and planned …
First Street: “Mortgage lenders have long depended on homeowners insurance as a first line of defense against loan losses, requiring coverage as a condition of mortgage approval. Historically, this arrangement has held strong: extreme-weather damage has consistently been the costliest category of homeowners insurance claims and lenders have remained largely unscathed. But as U.S. disaster …
Trust for Public Land’s 2025 ParkScore® report goes beyond rankings—it offers a powerful look at how parks are shaping the future of our communities. This year’s findings reveal how strong park systems are helping cities foster connection, civic trust, and wellbeing at a time when we need it most. Explore the data, stories, and insights …
It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish” David Attenborough narrates never-before-seen footage of destructive bottom trawlers. The widespread fishing practise has been filmed for the first time in such detail as part of a new Attenborough-narrated documentary: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/david-attenborough-narrates-footage-of-bottom-trawler-fishing Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling released from Ocean with David Attenborough: https://silverbackfilms.tv/never-before-seen-footage-of-bottom-trawling-released-from-ocean-with-david-attenborough/
PopSci: “10 beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards. A curious lion cub, a brave wolf spider, and a frolicking fox.”
FT.com no paywall: “It was never meant to be $2tn. Elon Musk’s vow last year to cut almost a third of the annual federal budget, made in front of a frenzied Maga crowd during a Trump rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, came as a surprise even to the event’s organisers. “The deal was …
Bytseu – “A new report draws on decades of internal documents and court records to lay out how some of the world’s most powerful corporations misled the public about the dangers of climate change—and how their efforts to avoid responsibility for the harms caused by their products have evolved in recent years. The documents and …
Union of Concerned Scientists: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages – “Dozens of states, counties, cities, and tribes across the United States and its territories are currently suing major fossil fuel companies for fraud, climate damages, or racketeering. This report assesses the wealth of documentary evidence behind these lawsuits, …
