Popular view of Earth could do with some revising by Donald Trump

Donald Trump plans to slash the budget of agencies behind the satellite programmes which underpin climate science. Jon Gertner looks at what the US may lose as a result.

In late August, as Hurricane Harvey began smashing into the Texas coast, a flood of data began pouring in along with the catastrophic quantities of rainwater.

It wasn’t from the nonstop news coverage; it was from the transmissions that lay behind it, in the pulses of information coming down from space.