Last year, President Trump killed a major assessment on nature, but now, the scientists involved with the research have published a draft of the report independently. In January 2025, just weeks before a first-of-its-kind nature assessment – the National Nature Assessment – was due to be published, President Trump put the final nail in the coffin by ordering those involved with the report to stop all research and cancel its publication. Over 150 scientists and experts in various fields had already spent thousands of hours conducting…