Middletown March for Science

07/25/2026

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07/19/2026

How can vulnerable species be expected to survive when their habitat is destroyed? Removing rules protecting fragile habitat will result in extinction events.

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back protections for at-risk animal and plant species under the Endangered Species Act.

06/26/2026

Search for climate.us instead of climate.gov .. the data is intact. These are selfless, dedicated and largely VOLUNTEER scientists fighting back against the madness. Please support their work!
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5869615/climate-noaa-data-trump-doge

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.

06/03/2026

(Edited on June 28 2026:
Important update .. see first comment below. A rare victory. Will it hold?)

BREAKING: ATTACK ON SCIENCE! The Trump administration is ripping up $368 million worth of ocean sensors to blind America to climate change and the collapse of the Atlantic current.

Congress funded it. Scientists built it. Trump is tearing it up anyway.

The Trump administration is sending ships out in June to physically remove more than 900 deep-sea instruments from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that monitor things like ocean acidity and temperature — dismantling a $368 million monitoring network that took a decade to build and was designed to operate for 25 years.

It will be gone in 15 months.

The Ocean Observatories Initiative is not redundant government bloat. It is the world's most advanced continuously operating ocean observation system — monitoring greenhouse gas absorption, marine heat waves, commercial fisheries, coastal flooding along the East Coast, and most critically, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, the massive global conveyor belt of water that some scientists fear is weakening due to climate change. A collapse of that current would trigger severe weather catastrophes across multiple continents.

The instruments measuring that current are anchored 9,200 feet below the surface of the Irminger Sea, between Greenland and Iceland, as part of an international scientific collaboration. They are now being pulled out of the water.

The Trump administration tried to cut the network's funding by 80 percent — twice. Congress restored the money both times. So, the administration is simply dismantling it anyway.

The annual operating cost was $48 million. That's less than four days of the Iran war. It's a rounding error on the $1.776 billion slush fund Trump created for his January 6th allies. It's less than half what Trump is spending to gold-plate four horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial.

"By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership," said Craig McLean, former acting chief scientist at NOAA.

Scientists warn that decades of institutional knowledge and engineering expertise will be lost — the kind that can't be reconstructed from notes. Commercial fishing industries along the Pacific Northwest and East Coast will lose critical data. Coastal communities will lose flood prediction tools. The entire planet will lose visibility into one of the most consequential ocean systems on Earth.

The National Science Foundation called this decision "nimbler prioritization."

Scientists call it what it is: willful blindness to climate catastrophe, funded by your tax dollars and executed against the explicit wishes of Congress.

Please write your senators and representatives to urge them to stop the Trump administration’s foolish and ignorant attacks on climate science, and please like and share this post everywhere to spread the news of this catastrophic assault on environmental information.

06/01/2026

Uniting to Protect Science & Democracy: Science Rising National Launch Event

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) invites you to join the public launch of Science Rising, a new initiative mobilizing the science community to speak out and take action against the Trump administration's anti-science and authoritarian actions, while laying the foundation for reimagining federal science policy for the public good.
Date: Wednesday, June 3�Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Our launch event will feature esteemed guests:
* Arati Prabhakar, PhD, Former Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Chief Science Advisor to the President, Biden Administration
* Erica Chenoweth, PhD, Leading Democracy Scholar; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Kennedy School
UCS President and CEO Gretchen Goldman, PhD, will share remarks, along with the leaders of Science Rising, Matt Heid and Melissa Varga.
Speakers will share insights based on their leadership positions and expertise on protecting science and democracy, outline our strategy to take action together, and highlight the many ways you can make a difference in these pivotal times.
This event will be recorded, and a recording will be sent to all who register.

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to join the public launch of Science Rising, a new initiative mobilizing the science community to speak out and take action against the Trump administration’s anti-science and authoritarian actions. Wednesday, June 3, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.

03/17/2026

The NSF has provided no evidence to justify dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Doing so would undermine one of the nation’s most vital scientific institutions.

Read the letter UCS submitted today: https://act.ucsusa.org/3NeWZh1

03/16/2026

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In this video, we explore the Science March movement and its significance in today's world. We answer key questions, inclu...

12/03/2025

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As hundreds of world leaders gather in Brazil for the UN’s annual global climate conference, COP30, these charts illustrate both the challenges leaders are facing — and some reasons for optimism.