One year in, ‘State of Science’ report details how Trump administration has disrupted US science

AGU press contact: Josh Weinberg, [email protected]

WASHINGTON - Eos, the science news magazine of the American Geophysical Union, today released "The State of the Science 1 Year On," a special report assessing how the Trump administration's first year in its second term disrupted the U.S. scientific enterprise and what actions may lie ahead this year. The report contextualizes key federal actions taken in 2025 across climate and energy, health and public safety, the federal scientific workforce, academia and research, and environmental protection.

The report explores

• rollbacks in climate and clean energy policy

• changes impacting FEMA, disaster preparedness, air quality and public health

• large-scale disruptions to the federal scientific workforce

• research funding constraints and impacts on students and academic freedom

• shifts in environmental regulation and public lands management

• U.S. disengagement from international climate cooperation

• anticipated policy trajectories, likely areas of continued disruption and how scientific institutions are responding.

A web version of the report with a copy available for download can be found here: https://eos.org/state-of-the-science.

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