How does climate change affect our brains? Trump’s NIH just cut funding to study it.

Marianthi- Anna Kioumourtzoglou , an environmental health professor at Columbia University , got the email she’d been dreading.

The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “ Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change’s .

CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change on cognitive function.

There are people who have lost, across multiple grants, up to 30 , 50 , 70 percent of their salaries.

So far, we’ve had two paychecks, but I don’t know how long this can keep going.

In theory, we can keep applying for grants. But NIH , clearly, is not going to fund this work for the foreseeable future.