The Lake States Fire Science Consortium is accepting proposals for undergraduate internship experiences which address issues associated with northern fire-dependent ecosystems 🔥Proposals are due February 24 - learn more at http://lakestatesfiresci.net/interns_2026.html

Can someone please explain to Trump that Greenland has a lot of ice, not ICE. Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."

And another day where the President continues to amplify the big lie of a stolen election, imply he will change the constitution to run a third term, and weighing using military force to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of a NATO ally. Among other things. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.

Happy Winter Solstice! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...

“It takes all of us, meaning state, local, federal, Tribal, NGOs, contractors, all the rest—no one organization can do the preventative work or the response work.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1612202...

Lux Interior's Christmas Mixtape #HolidaySounds youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A well written piece- “Once you create an agency that’s only focussed on fire, life and safety become the main focus, and any notion of fire as a multipurpose ecological tool loses its value,” What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Satellites and drone swarms: The new high-tech quest to fight wildfires

From 2018 but relevant and revisit following a work meeting were it was discussed that hope is not a plan.“Strategy is not a science; it is an art of big-picture thought, communication, and constant adaptation.” warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...

A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.

Grand Canyon Lodge, the town of Jasper in Jasper NP, Sperry Chalet in Glacier NP -- these iconic structures were built in a different climate & not designed to survive the turbo-charged fires of the 21st century. We can only expect to see more of the same. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

This map visualizes the 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package. Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

To save our trees, we must burn down our forests

"De-extinction" is to the biodiversity crisis as geoengineering/carbon capture are to climate change. The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.

The next time you hear someone argue for a suppression-first approach to wildfire with a straight face, please share this paper with them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Even as Forest Service officials laid out the acute risk of wildfire in the Southwest this season during a briefing with congressional staffers this week, they repeatedly refused to say how many employees were fired, a congressional aide told SourceNM. buff.ly/AXenBR2 #nmfire

“The Trump Administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society,” time.com/7266334/us-h...

Two years ago I wrote about a women's firefighting bootcamp in Yosemite National park, where I interviewed young women thrilled to fight fires. Today I published a story about how all such initiatives have been cancelled under the Trump Administration. 19thnews.org/2025/02/dei-...

They are simply doing what they said they were going to do.

One of those jobs that we hopefully never need to think about, because if we do that means something has gone badly wrong. But it’s also one of those jobs that someone needs to ensure is staffed appropriately to make sure something does not go badly wrong.