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After a ten-day mission around the moon, the Artemis II astronauts will have traveled nearly 700,000 miles. Today is the final hurdle: reentry. Here's where we stand right now: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

“There’s a lot to learn on the moon….But some astronomers, faced with increasingly austere government funding for their ground- and space-based projects, are beginning to see the moon as a more fiscally-stable scientific stage for some of their most ambitious cosmic studies.”

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

The Iran War has broken the bargain that Trump promised to strike between American consumers and the oil industry — and its left his energy policy dead in the water. I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

~1.7 million lives were saved in 2019 because of decreases in air pollution More lives are saved when cleaner air goes hand in hand with: - reducing social inequalities - more equal access to healthcare for everyone in society New study share.google/tx06aJ8S65gX...

A huge heat dome is spreading across the United States and it is shattering March temperature records.

Dolphins washing up on the shores of Patagonia may have been fleeing orcas in the area

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Today on the pod, what a worrying forecast says about women’s heart health, what’s happening with NASA’s Artemis II moon mission and why female reindeer have antlers

As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

New research on African striped mice found that the caregiving instinct may be rooted in a specific gene

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water. “The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter. By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

EVs are already making your air cleaner #Climate

The consequences of this will be felt for generations.

As deepfakes blur the line between truth and fiction, we’ll need a new class of forensic experts to determine what’s real, what’s fake and what can be proved in court

Europe commits to wind energy expansion despite Trump criticism, draft shows reut.rs/4pTHGYg

@noaa.gov has finalized a rule to expedite the permit process for deep sea mining, including applications for exploration and extraction beyond U.S. jurisdictional boundaries. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

Beautiful images of Monday’s northern lights show in Western Europe. You could even see them here in Portugal.

NYTimes: How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

BREAKING: A judge has overturned a stop work order from the Trump administration, allowing the Coastal Virginia offshore wind project to proceed. The decision marks the third defeat for the president — this week. Here's @jael.bsky.social with more: heatmap.news/sparks/coast...

US judge allows Equinor to restart New York offshore wind project reut.rs/4pLfmaC

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

Recommended read: In the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, columnist @marcelonleite.bsky.social looked into the climate impact of extracting more oil from Venezuela.

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The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

From WaPo: Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes” segment on Trump admin deportations of Venezuelan migrants to CECOT, citing lack of comment from admin due to their refusal to provide an interview. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Breaking news: A dozen former leaders of the FDA warned that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risks undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans.

“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health #Iran 🇮🇷

The wheels are falling off COP30. "We're facing the reality of a no-deal scenario," said the EU's climate commissioner. "We cannot accept a text that is not dealing with the real problems," said Colombia's environment minister. Gift link:

We need to do better in the Pyrocene age: At 176 California homes, "most had little compulsory or recommended mitigations completed. Participants struggled with hazards that required frequent maintenance, including woodpiles, propane tanks, trees and shrubs, roof and gutter and deck debris."

The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #SNAP #Waste #Farms

" #Climate change, through rising average global temperatures and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, is likely to cause a rise in CKD and accelerated decline in kidney function attributed to non-optimal temperature"

Why cities around the world are uniting to keep cool. A new global initiative is helping cities from Phoenix to Quezon City address extreme heat with shared solutions and local action. grist.org/sponsored/wh... #Cities #Climate

EU plans December announcement to make small EVs more affordable, Sejourne says reut.rs/47ENjlU

After about 2 years, electric cars become more environmentally friendly than their combustion-powered counterparts, according to research comparing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the two vehicle types. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

If you listen closely enough, the sea can tell you how humanity is changing it. Like, literally. The sound of breaking waves can now be used to measure ocean acidification.

“We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it,” @drjeffmasters.bsky.social said.

First intended as an entrance for social events, the East Wing became the first lady's office space. Historians say the shift was a key part of professionalizing staff for the president's wife. n.pr/4qA1nG0

I’m working at a coffee shop today to get away from my pushy kitty “assistants” but now I’m distracted by the sounds of #1980s bands from my teen years I’ve tried hard to forget (Whitesnake! Hall+Oates! Aaaahhh, so much synth!)

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

“…even if more nations do provide money/laws to drive the business of durable carbon renewal forward, there are mounting concerns that a sector conceived as an alternative to dubious offset markets could increasingly come to replicate their problems” www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/24/1...

These Fish Can Adjust to Heatwaves—And Pass the Resilience on to Their Offspring Though scientists aren’t quite sure how they do it, three-spined sticklebacks show an unexpected fortitude in the face of repeated heatwaves. www.biographic.com/these-fish-c...

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The second annual Global Tipping Points Report, with contributions from 160 scientists in 23 countries, finds that Earth has already crossed its first catastrophic tipping point: coral reef die-off. By @readfearn.bsky.social for The Guardian…

A prolonged drought and other factors have muffled the kaleidoscopic blend of reds, oranges and yellows in some areas of New England this fall. As a result, disappointed leaf peepers have been left to wonder what fall will look like in a changing climate.