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Hero of 2025: Plucky Pigeons

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective...

18.12.2025 9

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How to Make People Want to Read About Climate Change

On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an “amazing” stroke of luck. It was her last day in Dominica, in the...

04.11.2025 4

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Trump Administration Suspends Staff Who Pleaded to Save FEMA

Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter...

28.08.2025 8

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How Trump’s FEMA Cuts Put You at Risk, According to Staffers

In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wrote to...

26.08.2025 5

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Did RNC Chair Michael Whatley Help Run a Fossil Fuel “Front Group”?

All eyes were on North Carolina this week, as Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley formally announced a run for Senate in the key...

02.08.2025 9

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Trump’s EPA Moves to Kill “Holy Grail” of Climate Regulations

On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” a...

30.07.2025 8

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“Another Big Lie”: Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Regulating Greenhouse Gases

Donald Trump is coming for the “holy grail” of climate regulations. As multiple media outlets reported this week, the administration plans to roll...

26.07.2025 9

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FDA Approves “Breakthrough” HIV Drug

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a highly effective, injectable drug to help prevent the transmission of HIV, according to its...

19.06.2025 6

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The FDA Just Approved a New Covid Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just green-lit a new Covid vaccine from Moderna, the company said in a press release Saturday. Now the vaccine...

01.06.2025 6

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Donald Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Gut American Science

On Friday, the Trump administration released a detailed look at its proposed 2026 budget, including major cuts to federal science agencies that...

31.05.2025 8

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Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well...

08.05.2025 9

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“Americans Will Be Less Safe”: An Author of the Country’s Biggest Climate Report Reflects on Its Gutting

The Trump administration is coming for the National Climate Assessment. Officials reportedly cut funding for the federal program behind the...

23.04.2025 9

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Trump’s DOJ Claims Academic Journals Hold “Partisan” Stance in Scientific Debates

The publisher of CHEST, a prestigious, peer-reviewed medical journal focused on respiratory health, received a letter from the Trump administration...

19.04.2025 7

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A Youth Suicide Researcher Speaks Out Against Trump’s War on Science

Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the...

16.04.2025 8

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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It.

On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been...

11.04.2025 7

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New Trump EO Would Punish States for Combating Climate Change

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American energy from “state overreach.” The move, some...

09.04.2025 7

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Thousands “Stand Up for Science” Across the Country

On Friday, protesters gathered in Washington, DC, and at more than 30 satellite protests nationwide in what appears to be the largest pro-science...

08.03.2025 6

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How Doctored Science Infected Alzheimer’s Research

More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German doctor Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia,”...

07.03.2025 10

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Purged By Trump: A National Science Foundation Worker Speaks Out

On Tuesday, leaders at the National Science Foundation reportedly laid off about 170 employees, many via Zoom—an estimated 10 percent of the...

23.02.2025 6

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Federal Judge to Trump: No, You Can’t Ban DEI

On Friday, a federal judge partly blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to root out programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI,...

23.02.2025 6

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“It’s Sad We Have to Do This”: Academic Unions Are Rallying to Defend Science

Protesters gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park on February 19 to protest the Trump administration's cuts to research funding....

22.02.2025 10

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What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?

Chrystal Starbird, a cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, had been preparing to serve on her first National...

25.01.2025 8

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What We’re Missing About the Los Angeles Wildfires

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County caught fire. Driven by unusually strong Santa Ana winds, as my colleagues report, five fires have ignited some 27,000...

09.01.2025 8

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Blob-Headed Fish, Meat-Eating Squirrels, and Other Fascinating Science Stories From 2024

Sonja Wild/UC Davis So much of this year felt like a fever dream: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump. A career-ending presidential debate....

31.12.2024 8

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