Our new RSE paper led by postdoc Jingyi Bu is out. Use of GEDI-derived canopy structural complexity metrics improves upscaling of flux tower data. GPP & ET increase with higher structural diversity. Ecosystems w/ complex structures are more resilient to drought authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVkB7qzT7...

Just searched the entire terminal 5 at LAX and finally found a power outlet on a wall. Come on, it's 2025!

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean. Led by Yulong Zhang at Duke. I am glad to be part of the team. The last study that looked at production over both land and ocean was published in 1998. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brisbane's Big Ben and Brisbane Eye (compared to London Eye)

You are welcome to submit an abstract to our AGU session. Conveners: @atkinsjeff.bsky.social‬, Qinfeng Guo, Erin Crockett, & myself. Our invited speakers are: Catherine Fahey (SERC) Ruben Valbuena (SUL) agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

What a nice case study! There happens to be an eddy covariance tower there, and it collected data both and before these events.

I knew this would happen. Australia is definitely not the only one. Scientists are vital assets to have for any country.

ROSES 2025 is finally out. All programs related to carbon cycle, climate change, terrestrial ecology, IDS, ..., have been cut. I knew it wouldn't look good, but I never thought all these programs would be entirely removed. nspires.nasaprs.com/external/vie...

Our new paper in GRL reveals widespread and divergent post-drought loss of gross primary production (GPP). 1/4 of the drought-induced GPP loss occurred after the drought, with a global mean of ∼0.74 Pg C yr−1. Led by Zhuoyi Zhao and Yanlian Zhou. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

How much energy does it take to generate one ChatGPT request? What about water use and the broader climate impact of generative AI? UCS’s José Pablo Ortiz breaks it down, and explains why we need smart policy to guide this tech. Read the blog:

In urban areas, the urban heat island phenomenon will make heatwaves worse.

Our new paper led by Bin & Hankui in ISPRS: Estimating carbon fluxes over North America using a physics-constrained deep learning model. The novelty is to use a time-series deep learning model to jointly estimate NEE, GPP, and RECO while accounting for a physical constraint (i.e., NEE = RECO-GPP).

Just posted an OpEd in our local paper, the Brentwood Press, on defending science, as encouraged by @wclivestream.bsky.social and others @natureatcal.bsky.social www.thepress.net/opinion/we-s...

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain #lighteningstorm #lightening #BWFri #Scape #EastCoastKin #WhiteFri #BlackFri #ColorADay

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

“Heatwaves are no longer just a physical threat—they may also be affecting our mental well-being. A new study has revealed a direct link between extreme heat exposure and increased risks of depression and anxiety.”https://urbanacres.in/heatwave-exposure-raises-depression-risk-by-13/

A new study published today in @nature.com, co-authored by researchers at the University of Minnesota, Project Drawdown, and other institutions, reveals a troubling feedback loop 🔁: drawdown.org/news/climate...

Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Interesting article. It appears the entire carbon credit system can use lots of rethinking and improvement.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Came across aspen oyster mushrooms while walking in the woods on Sunday.

New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo

Our new study in AFM shows that there is no widespread decline in canopy conductance under elevated atmospheric CO2. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whenever I see sidewalks in small cities or towns, I feel happy. But should't sides walks and bike lanes be the norm?

Bad news: Most of the big forest nations that promised to end deforestation by 2030 are experiencing more forest loss today than they did when they made the pledge. @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4137...

One-third of all food produced is never eaten. That's wasted labor, water and energy — and unnecessary emissions. Reducing food loss and waste is essential for a sustainable future. Learn more from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3SlNpI2

In 1974, one job paid for a home, kids, car, and vacation. The minimum wage in '74 was $2/hr. Today in most parts of this country you’d need $60-75/hr to live the same life. Wages are flat. Everything else has skyrocketed. It’s a rigged system funneling money upward while the rest of us drown.

#TansleyInsight: #Forest productivity response to elevated #CO2 in free-air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited Richard J. Norby 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

The UK finds that the cost of reaching Net Zero by 2050 declined 75% since 2020! The annual net cost fell from 16.1 billion pounds to 4.3 billion ($5.4 billion). Why the big drop? The cost of renewables and EVs fell faster than was expected in 2020. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Does anybody know how to reconcile the central $8.5/tCO2 estimate Moore et al. (2017) for climate damage to agriculture from with the central Rennert et al. (2022) $84/tCO2 estimate? How to explain this order-of-magnitude difference? www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This type of study can inform policies (e.g., taxation).

More frequent hot weather and droughts have dealt a significant blow to crop yields, especially for key grains like wheat, barley, and maize, according to a Sta… phys.org/news/2025-05...

Many people believe that cutting federal support for science and education can save taxpayers money.

and taxing private jets a lot more as well?

The fossil fuel industry is aggressively expanding in Africa. So it’s incredibly strategic that a coalition of African civil society groups has asked the African Court on Human + Peoples’ Rights for an advisory opinion on African Union states’ human rights duties in the climate crisis: @hrw.org

Interesting finding! I had always assumed that spring runoff was mostly 'new' snowmelt. Looks like 'old money' talks — even in hydrology.

This could be the tipping point that leads to the loss of U.S. centennial prosperity.

#AAPIMonth Spotlight: Ankur Desai is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Department Chair in the @uwmad-aos.bsky.social. Ankur is also an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist. He’s a former AMS STAC Commissioner and currently serves on the Atmospheric Research Awards committee.

Even when the political winds shift, science must keep moving forward. That’s why @AGU and @ametsoc are stepping up with a first-of-its-kind special collection on climate change in the U.S.—across 29+ peer-reviewed journals. 🌍📚 Read all about it: buff.ly/6G05hQD

Less than 50% of US electricity was produced by fossil fuels for the first time on record cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/f...

Not sure about waste, but I think we have found our fraud and abuse.

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

A gap-filled and partitioned eddy covariance flux dataset for 34 sites across Northwest China is now publicly available online. Our data paper, led by Xufeng Wang, just came out in Earth System Science Data. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Well this is quite a novel application of #CLM5 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In the US and interested in serving as an IPCC author for the 7th assessment report? This group is putting together nominations.

This can be potentially better than green rooftops.

This is one of the few observatories that should be maintained indefinitely.