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EPA Exodus: Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office, Analysis Shows

EPA Exodus: Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office, Analysis Shows

By Jessica Corbett Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has seen an exodus of nearly 1,600 former federal employees, including some who say they “did not want to any longer be any part of this administration’s nonsense” and believed they “could do better work” elsewhere, according to a new […]

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    Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

    Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

    By Katie Fletcher, Tesfay Woldemariam and Fred Stolle No single person could ever hope to count the world’s trees. But a crowd of them just counted the world’s drylands forests—and, in the process, charted forests never before mapped, cumulatively adding up to an area equivalent in size to the Amazon rainforest. Current technology enables computers […]

    Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference

    Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference

    By Elliott Negin Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was one of 30 U.S.-based scientists scheduled to speak at the quadrennial International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference on fast breeder nuclear reactors in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in late June. Lyman did not attend the previous two conferences, in Kyoto in 2009 and […]

    These 76 Women Scientists Are Changing the World

    These 76 Women Scientists Are Changing the World

    By Molly Taft Heidi Steltzer’s job, as she put it, is “hiking where no one else will go.” As a mountain and polar ecologist studying rare plants, she’s accustomed to traveling to breathtaking Arctic vistas to chase flora along mountain ridges. But watching glaciers calve on her first trip to Antarctica last December was a […]

    Michael Mann: It’s Open Season on Climate Scientists

    Michael Mann: It’s Open Season on Climate Scientists

    I coined the term “Serengeti Strategy” in my 2012 book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. It’s meant to describe how industry special interests and their patrons in power single out individual researchers or teams of scientists for attack, in much the same way lions of the Serengeti single out an individual zebra from […]