New study finds ‘alarming’ high flood risk for 17 million Americans on Atlantic and Gulf coasts

New study finds ‘alarming’ high flood risk for 17 million Americans on Atlantic and Gulf coasts

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Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets.

Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US.

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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

NEW: Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects.

@benjmueller.bsky.social @irenatfh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

Rainforests Can Bounce Back Much Faster Than Thought, Researchers Say

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/c...

Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest - Nature Assessment of how 16 taxonomic groups in a lowland tropical forest resist and recover from anthropogenic disturbance shows the potential of protecting naturally regenerating secondary f...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling? When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

Scientists have long predicted ecosystems would shift in response to warming, with some species moving out and others moving in. But a major new study has found the rate of turnover is declining, suggesting nature may be losing its ability to self-repair.

Medieval Farms Were a Boon for Biodiversity, Study Finds New research finds that the diversity of plants in parts of medieval Europe peaked in the centuries before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands and forests. The findings show how, under the right conditions, farms can be a boon to nature.

In Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside forests, research shows.

The findings underscore how, under the right conditions, farms can be a boon to nature.

World's Freshwater Fish in Crisis, U.N. Report Warns Over the last half century, populations of fish migrating through the world’s rivers have declined by 81 percent, according to a stark new U.N. report. 

Over the last half century, populations of fish migrating through the world's rivers have dropped by 81 percent, according to a stark new U.N. report.

More Than 110 New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found deep underwater beyond the edges of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Scientists have identified more than 110 new species discovered deep underwater beyond the edges of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our Future In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosyste...

“Flowering plants have a 100-million-year record of thriving in the face of calamity,” says biologist David George Haskell. “They are world creators.”

In an interview, he explains what flowers can teach us about survival on a warming planet.

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the impacts on wildlife, fish, and the drinking water of Indigenous communities.

As the Arctic warms and tundra thaws, minerals once trapped in permafrost are leaching out, turning rivers orange and acidic — some as acidic as vinegar.

Experts are racing to understand the ramifications for fish, wildlife, and Indigenous people.

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

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🐢Diez tortugas recuperaron procesos ecológicos que se perdieron hace 180 años...¡en 6 meses!

🏝️Su reintroducción en las Seychelles reveló un impacto clave para la restauración del ecosistema

🗣️"Dispersaron más de 11.000 semillas"

👉 http://tiny.cc/t062101

Tijuana River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California For decades, billions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste have been dumped into the Tijuana River.

apnews.com/article/tiju... River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California

IIASA and OSCE explore collaboration on emerging technologies and security challenges Earlier this week, IIASA welcomed a delegation from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to Schloss Laxenburg for a high-level exchange on advancing collaboration at the int...

IIASA welcomed the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) this week to explore collaboration on science, policy & emerging tech. Researchers shared insights on AI, satellite mapping & migration.

👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/apr-202...

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Lake Sturgeon spawning

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

@iiasa.ac.at is inviting applications for potential MSCA postdocs

In Point Reyes, National Park Service scientist made incredibly rare find "There is so little information about this life stage in this species."

Cool: "In Point Reyes, a National Park Service scientist has made an incredibly rare find."

Michael Reichmuth "photographed a group of newly hatched California giant salamanders in the wild for the first time."

www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Future nutrient reduction needs in world’s largest rivers to limit coastal eutrophication Future nutrient reduction needs in world’s largest rivers to limit coastal eutrophication, Nkwasa, Albert, Nakkazi, Maria Theresa, Chawanda, Celray James, Tang, Ting, Suresh, Keerthana, Beusen, Arthur...

🧪🌎 Future nutrient reduction needs in world’s largest rivers to limit coastal eutrophication doi.org/10.1088/3033...

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Maria Sibylla Merian:17th Century Artist, Entomologist, Explorer and Proto-Ecologist! Biological classification took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets of Unnatural Curiosities whose only organizing principle was a R...

Maria Merian was born 379 ago today. An entomologist who founded the ecological approach to taxonomy, she traveled by herself to Surinam in 1599 to document the insect life there, then published her findings with her own lush illustrations.

tinyurl.com/2pknyx6n

#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BugSky 🐛🌱

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered.

This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NSF LTER program “archived”.

LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.

This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.

My heart is breaking.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Another big surprise contained in today's budget proposal: A government wide ban on using federal funds for "expensive" scientific publishing.

This shows the issue is a “broader conversation happening across the government” beyond just the NIH, says @csmarcum.bsky.social.

Where to see a Woodcock in Manhattan Monolithic skyscrapers burst from every inch of land on New York’s iconic Manhattan island. They stand like great tombstones for the nature that once survived on an island that grew fat on th…

People are going crazy to see the migrating woodcocks in the heart of Manhattan this year. How has this become the new craze? Here is my blog from when I used to spend my lunchtimes with them - incidentalnaturalist.com/2020/03/04/w...

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

Wikipedia page about the Laotian rock rat

One of the craziest discoveries of a new 'living fossil' and Lazarus taxon - Laotian rock rat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian... the last member of Diatomyidae. Survived in the isolated mountain pockets.
And here is fun video about it: youtube.com/shorts/sZI3Z...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Centers of Excellence in Ukraine Centers of Excellence in Ukraine on Simons Foundation

Please share: The @simonsfoundation.org is funding ($$) Centers of Excellence in Science and Math in Ukraine www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/center...