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From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers

  • Written by Bethany Bradley, Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology, UMass Amherst
imageMahonia bealei, also known as Beale's barberry or leatherleaf mahonia, is invasive but still sold for landscaping.HQ Flower Guide via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

When the Trump administration began freezing federal funding for climate and ecosystem research, one of the programs hit hard was ours: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate...

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