The program, DOSAir, monitored air quality at embassies around the world, helping to prevent hundreds of premature deaths. Now, the program is ending “due to budget constraints,” Wired reports.
Why? The grant application — for a project on the evolution of mint — discussed the diversity of plants and mentioned that there was a female scientist on the team, ProPublica reports. It’s just one example of how all kinds of work is getting caught up in the anti-civil rights crusade jeopardizing scientific research.
The wrecking ball the Trump administration and DOGE have taken to federal government agencies is already having an impact in Antarctica. Questions loom about whether US stations will be able to survive the chaos. And the US could wind up ceding influence on the continent to other countries, Wired reports.
“Even brief interruptions will result in people walking away and not coming back,” Nathan Whitehorn, an Antarctic scientist at Michigan State University, tells Wired.
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Much of the country lost electricity today in a blackout affecting millions of people. It’s disrupted business and traffic with lights out and intermittent mobile service, ABC reports. Officials are still investigating the cause, according to the national disaster response service, Senapred.
