One of the many terrible things the current administration is doing is making sweeping cuts to science research, including climate and weather. This is dangerous for Americans of course, but also to people in other countries who use and build on research done here. The work these scientists do is important, and the cuts we're seeing now have the potential to cause problems for decades to come.

"From Wednesday, May 28th to Sunday, June 1st, join meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US as we share our work, and show you what makes it so vital. We will clarify the impact of the cuts on this research, and answer your questions about weather and climate research in the US."

Livestream Information and Schedule Highlights

The current livestream is below. It and previous hours' videos can be found at wclivestream .



Other links of interest:

• CNN article about the livestream
• 5 Calls for a sample script/letter for contacting your reps
• tumblr post you can reblog

As a lifelong gardener, I've been following the news on Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which has been killing off honeybee colonies en masse for several years, pretty closely and was very excited to hear the other day that researchers may have found a cure.

Apparently the latest suspect is a parasite called Nosema ceranae and they've had very good luck improving survival rates once treatment for this particular parasite is begun.

Source

Meanwhile, I've been choosing plants for my garden specifically to attract both honey and native bees, in the hope of giving them a little bit of a hand.

A few of the useful resources I've found include:

Urban Bee Gardens
The Xerces Society
ATTRA: Native Bees

If you're not familiar with CCD, Haagen Dazs has set up a site with a helpful introduction to the topic: Help the Honey Bees. It also happens to be one of the prettiest uses of Flash I've ever seen.