Justine Calma

Ontario added a 25 percent surcharge on electricity flowing from the Canadian province to the US in response to the Trump administration’s tariff threats toward Canada. The province generates electricity for 1.5 million customers across Minnesota, New York, and Michigan.

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.