Timef 05/03/2025
- One of the Weather World’s Biggest Buzzwords Expands Its Reach nytimes.com2025-05-03 17:30:06
To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit the Central United States in early April.
- Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: There Are Perils in ‘Elderspeak’ nytimes.com2025-05-03 17:02:05
A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.
- Weed Manager of the Year: One Man’s Quest to Save the Sonoran Desert nytimes.com2025-05-03 17:00:47
As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is becoming more valuable.
- Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention nytimes.com2025-05-03 05:32:41
Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.
- Science backers say proposed science cuts pose dire risks. nytimes.com2025-05-03 05:24:08
One expert said the consequences would be “catastrophic” if Congress enacts the White House agenda of sweeping budget cuts.
- RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination nytimes.com2025-05-03 03:25:14
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
- New ‘Climate Superfund’ Laws Face Widening Legal Challenges nytimes.com2025-05-03 02:54:05
The Trump administration sued to block two state laws designed to force oil companies to pay the costs of climate change. Several other states are joining the fight, too.
- Trump’s 2026 Budget Proposes Cutting NASA Funding by $6 Billion nytimes.com2025-05-03 01:07:41
That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with dreams of one day sending colonists to Mars.
- Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment nytimes.com2025-05-03 00:38:18
The organizations said they planned to publish the assessment even after the Trump administration’s decision to dismiss all authors on the project.
- Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time nytimes.com2025-05-02 23:52:23
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
