Peter and his wife moved to Marseille a few months ago for the opportunity to work in the Mediterranean, but also because-

One of the issues of concern with the current US administration is their insistence on leaving climate change out of scientific activities, which is really impossible because human-caused warming climate is the main driver of major changes in all sorts of aspects of ecosystems, including forest fires.

He also worked in close collaboration with many federal agencies and offices that have seen cuts and limitations on what they're allowed to say.

There has been a major reduction in federal funding in the United States for many aspects of science, including work related to climate change, also to diversity, as you know through the administration's focus on avoiding that term.

I have over 30 years of a professional career in the US, and this is the first time that my colleagues and I have been challenged with a question like that.

I have a hard time recognizing the country that I was born in and grew up in and worked in, and that is a painful experience.

But at present, it's the way that it is.