ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH IS STILL BEING HUSHED UP, WARN SCIENTISTS

The findings, published last month in Conservation Letters, reflect how politicized debates about environmental policy in Australia have become, says Saul Cunningham, an environmental scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra. Government employers most commonly modified science reported for the media or for internal communications, but conference presentations and journal articles were also altered to downplay environmental impacts. In a 2013 survey of more than 4,000 Canadian government scientists, a similar proportion (24%) of respondents reported that information for the media had been altered or excluded for non-scientific reasons (see go.nature. com/3o8eioi).