Tag Archives: War on science

Librarians and archivists are doing all that they can to collect and curate already-published web-based government information and data before it is taken offline. However, this administration’s anti-science policies and executive orders will have long-lasting negative impacts in the United States and around the world going forward and for many years to come as scientific grants from across the federal government are cut, rescinded, and no longer funded.

Lost in much of the media coverage these days is the fact that US agencies have long supported the backbone of global sciences, humanitarian, and health data infrastructures. Case in point: USAID data sets are critical to the work of the United Nations and one can find (or *could* find until USAID was shut down) USAID data in places like the UN’s data.un.org open data portal. This goes for data and information from CDC, NIH, NSF, NOAA, EPA, and other scientific agencies.

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies. James Temple. Technology Review (June 2, 2025)

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.

The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works.

Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner fuels, measure methane emissions, improve understanding of how heat waves and sea-level rise disproportionately harm marginalized groups, and help communities transition to sustainable energy, according to an MIT Technology Review review of a GrantWatch database — a volunteer-led effort to track federal cuts to research— and a list of terminated grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) itself.