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The article examines how a pending National Academies report on climate attribution is drawing political fire from Republican politicians and fossil fuel interests, threatening the organization's historical ability to remain above partisan conflict.
The NSF's decommissioning of Ocean Station Papa, a key ocean monitoring network, will leave Alaskans with reduced weather forecasting capabilities and increased vulnerability for coastal communities.
A proposed policy change could require political appointee sign-off for all federal research grants, threatening merit-based funding decisions.
Peter Hotez criticizes the erosion of support for U.S. research universities, citing MIT's 20% reduction in graduate students as a threat to the next generation of scientists.