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2024: Our Year in ReviewLearn More
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U.S. climate scientists gird for a second Trump administrationLearn MoreStill, Kurtz expects the next few years to be rough for climate scientists. “It’s going to be chaotic; it’s going to be unpredictable.”
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December update: Reflecting on 2024Learn More
Reflecting on 2024 2024 was a roller coaster. We started the year celebrating a win for a climate scientist who…
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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund gears up for a busy four yearsLearn MoreAs Trump prepares to return to office, the nonprofit [CSLDF], which provides free legal and educational support to researchers facing harassment and intimidation for their work, is gearing up for a high-stakes protracted struggle to protect scientists.
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Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meetingLearn More“I had people come in last AGU worried about this,” said Chris Marchesano, a staff attorney with the nonprofit [CSLDF]. “We’ve been hearing a lot from scientists who are incredibly worried.”
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November update: We’re in this togetherLearn More
We’re in This Together Despite the uncertainty and upheaval caused by the election earlier this month, several fundamental truths remain…
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Putting politics above scientific truthLearn MoreAs of July 2024, the [Silencing Science] tracker has documented 531 cases of censorship, information suppression, misrepresentation of scientific facts, and other policy or administrative anti-science actions in the United States.
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Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate toLearn More[CSLDF] fights for the rights of scientists to conduct, publish, and discuss their research and advocate for science without the threat of political harassment, censorship, or legal intimidation.
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Letter from the editors: What does a second Trump presidency mean for the fate of science?Learn MoreIn the wake of the 2016 election, researchers at the Columbia University Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund created the “Silencing Science Tracker.”
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