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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding

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Princeton University in New Jersey last year. Photograph: Ted Shaffrey/AP

Almost $4m in federal funding has been stripped from an Ivy League university’s prestigious climate research department because the Trump administration has determined it exposed students and other young people to “climate anxiety”.

The government research grants to Princeton University have been cut off because the White House considers its work on topics including sea level rise, coastal flooding and global warming to be promoting “exaggerated and implausible climate threats”, according to the New York Times.

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