Trump’s administration openly and explicitly considers climate action “unnecessary.” After Trump took the oath of office, control of whitehouse.gov switched from the Obama administration to his. What an administration chooses to put on a website on Day One is some indication of where the administration’s priorities lie. So, we hunted for the word “climate” on Trump’s new … [Read more...]
Indivisible
Inaugurations prompt reflection and expectation. Why did the country choose Donald J. Trump? And what lies ahead? Although the president controls only one of the three branches of government and doesn’t have the power to unilaterally swerve in a new direction, Trump’s desire to swerve concerns us. Over the last eight years, the United States has started, slowly, to admit the … [Read more...]
Morbid Monarchs
A new study by Semmens et al. finds that the monarch butterflies of eastern North America are likely to slide off the slippery slope of endangerment and over the cliff of extinction in the next 20 years. The extinction risk arises from rapidly falling monarch populations. According to the study, monarch populations have declined 84% in the last 20 years. In the late 1990’s, … [Read more...]