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COP16 Dispatch: Week 2 On the Path to Peace with Nature: Wins and Challenges from COP16 Outcomes

ESA

This fund requires large companies—particularly those in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and agriculture—to contribute a percentage of their profits from DSI, directing resources back to developing countries and Indigenous communities. As we look toward 2030, COP16’s outcomes provide a foundation, but the true test lies in action.

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Hard political and legal battle lines have formed, with Democratic presidential administrations, California, other blue states and environmental interests on one side, and Republican administrations, red states and the fossil fuel industry on the other. Which brings us back to the two cases on which the U.S.

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US astronomy facing ‘extinction level’ event following Trump’s 2026 budget request

Physics World

He also suggested that research now undertaken at US universities falls short of what he called “gold standard science”, citing “political biases [that] have displaced the vital search for truth”. Universities, he stated, have lost public trust because they have “promoted diversity, equity and inclusion”.

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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical

Circle of Blue

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

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Lives in the Balance: Infectious Disease and the Trump Administration

Legal Planet

Control of the CDC’s research journal has been taken over by political appointees, who seemingly suppressed important research on H1N5. Spending freezes, for instance, disrupted biomedical research projects across the country and left researchers in a state of confusion.

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Willful Ignorance as Government Policy

Legal Planet

Second, theres also the fear that data and research may not fit its political agenda. advises people, why pay attention to scientists when you can just do the research in the far corners of the internet? More robust government programs arent part of the MAGA agenda.

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‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts

Scientific American

“What’s hard about the politics of fighting for science is that it’s hard to tell people what they’re missing out on. “We’re putting ourselves in the situation of sacrificing our place as the world leader in biotechnology and antiviral-drug development to other countries,” Harris said.