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Feature 27 July 2017

Trump Administration Moving Closer to Picking Science Director

The White House is considering separating the usually merged roles of director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

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Climate Change

The Polar Starbreaks a path for ships that supply McMurdo Station.

News 14 July 2017

Build Four New U.S. Polar Icebreakers, Report Urges

All of the ships should be “science ready,” whereas one should be “fully science capable,” according to new recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Ocean Sciences

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, located in Lake Huron, protects one of the best preserved collections of shipwrecks in the United States.

News 6 July 2017

Trump Administration Scrutinizing Protected Ocean Areas

A recently initiated review of some marine sanctuaries and monuments has conservationists worried that ecological, cultural, and other benefits from those protected areas may not be considered.

Climate Change

News 28 June 2017

State and Local Officials Push for Continued Climate Action

Governors, mayors, citizen groups, and others are moving ahead with regional and smaller-scale efforts to counteract climate change in the wake of the U.S. decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement.

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Climate Change

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris glowed a celebratory green on 4 November 2016, the day the climate accord negotiated in that city took effect.

News 21 June 2017

International Science Group Decries Trump Climate Pact Exit

The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics also criticizes the U.S. withdrawal from the Green Climate Fund as perhaps more damaging than the nation’s exit from the Paris climate agreement.

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Planetary Sciences

Two views of a new stamp that when warmed by a person’s finger, switches from showing the black disk of the Moon’s silhouette covering the Sun to an illuminated view of the Moon in place of the black disk.

News 20 June 2017

Innovative Postage Stamp Celebrates Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse

The eclipse expert whose photographs appear on the stamp said he is thrilled about the opportunities that the stamp and the eclipse afford to excite people about science.

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Science Policy & Funding

Dr. France Cordova and Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez at LIGO.

News 9 June 2017

Strong NSF Funding Favored by House Spending Committee

Although the federal budget request lowers the agency’s funding by 11%, a House appropriations committee chair declared at a hearing his panel’s commitment to U.S. leadership in fundamental research.

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Science Policy & Funding