"A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone"
"Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January."
Source: WIRED, 10/16/2025
Environmental Studies
Commercial Lion Farming in S. Africa Could Be Harming Wild Lions: Study
"As we’ve seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and put additional pressure on wild populations across African home ranges."
Source: The Revelator, 10/14/2025
Arctic Seals And Over Half Of Bird Species Now Listed As Threatened By IUCN
"Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, according to an annual assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature."
Source: AP, 10/14/2025
DOE Climate ‘Endangerment’ Report Sparks Stormy Retort
When the Trump Energy Department issued a report this summer questioning a central precept of U.S. climate change policy, it kicked off an angry backlash from scientific experts who fear it undermines decades of peer-reviewed research — and the very basis for climate action. Backgrounder scrutinizes the DOE report and the climate skeptics behind it, as well as the furious response.
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"‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist Confirmed As NOAA Chief"
"The Senate has voted to confirm President Trump’s pick to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of a group of nominees confirmed en masse."
Source: The Hill, 10/09/2025
"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish"
"When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists."
Source: Science, 10/07/2025
"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?"
"Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned."
Source: Euronews, 10/07/2025
Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage
Cropland can easily be found time and again at the heart of the key concerns on the environment beat, whether climate, water, chemicals or, of course, land. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox shares a high-quality, mappable database that can serve up stories on more than 100 categories of crops, with numbers drawn from satellite imagery. Plus, a pro tip on using the data smartly.
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Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s
"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."
Source: AP, 10/06/2025
"In the Arctic, the U.S. Shifts Focus From Climate Research to Security"
"The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet and is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth. And the United States’ approach to Arctic research has also begun shifting." "The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region."
Source: NYTimes, 10/06/2025
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