Biden Climate Team Says It Underestimated Trump's Damage

Trouble viewing? View in your browser. View all Scientific American publications.

    

January 06, 2021

Climate Biden Climate Team Says It Underestimated Trump's Damage Agency reviews have found greater budget cuts, staff losses and elimination of climate programs than initially thought By Adam Aton,E&E News

Space Will Increasing Traffic to the Moon Contaminate Its Precious Ice? Scientists seek guidance on exploring frozen caches at the lunar poles responsibly By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Public Health A Virologist Helps Keep Uruguay Safe from COVID with a Homegrown Test Gonzalo Moratorio assists his country in steering a more adept response than that mounted in Argentina and Brazil By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega,Nature magazine

Policy & Ethics Can Free Community College Unite a Divided U.S.? The incoming Biden-Harris administration wants to launch a new era in higher education that will make it open to everyone By David Noonan

Biology How to Avoid Becoming a Meal for a Cheetah Researchers help farmers in Namibia avoid costly cattle losses by tracking big cat hangouts By Jason G. Goldman | 04:32

Climate The Climate Emergency: 2020 in Review Despite some promising developments, the need for action has grown even more urgent By William J. Ripple,Christopher Wolf,Thomas M. Newsome,Phoebe Barnard,William R. Moomaw

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Unlimited For just $199 a year, Scientific American Unlimited gives you access to all of our publications, apps and the full website experience.

ADVERTISEMENT

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There is hard work ahead to rebuild agencies and our capacities from the ground up." Gina McCarthy, incoming White House national climate adviser

LATEST ISSUES

Questions?   Comments?

Download the Scientific American App

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. Unsubscribe     Manage Email Preferences     Privacy Policy     Contact Us