People who interact with cows regularly are probably like "duh," but this still made me smile. 🥹🐄 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

“the roof leaks in the stairwell of the journalism building and the carpet is from 1978” that’s dank academia

Climate scientists are retiring RCP8.5, the worst-case emissions scenario that some have argued was never plausible in the first place. eos.org/research-and...

Researchers are looking for new ways to tackle disastrous oil spills. Some are looking to flaming twisters! Apparently! eos.org/articles/the...

My second choice for the image to pair with this blog was this photo of Earth from the Artemis II mission, to visualize the growing shadowy void that is geoscience funding. 🙃

As a society, we need more grazing sheep in our social media feeds (and, it should go without saying, in our real-life views). 🐑🐏

This is cool as heck

In places with less human interference, tree lines are moving up as the climate warms. But in areas where humans are around, (chopping down trees, building roads, etc.) the upward spread of trees is suppressed, or even reversed. #TreeFactTuesday eos.org/articles/tre...

"Sand underpins nearly every aspect of modern infrastructure and economics, plays crucial roles in supporting ecosystem biodiversity, and literally shores up rivers and coasts." I think sand mining is so interesting. Thanks, @astrokimcartier.bsky.social! eos.org/research-and...

Such exciting news!

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What caused the second-largest tsunami ever recorded? New research in @science.org, presented at #EGU26 (@egu.eu), took a deep dive. Research from @ucalgary.bsky.social, comments from @leighstearns.bsky.social, words by @bowlerhatscience.org eos.org/articles/the...

gratitude list! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Wrote about buying a car. defector.com/want-to-buy-...

The transition to clean energy brings myriad environmental and health benefits. But what does it mean for communities in coal country? eos.org/articles/as-...

👏👏👏Journalism!!!👏👏👏

Happy birthday, Hubble! 🥳🥹

#PPOD: Noticeable change on Mars can take millions of years – but ESA’s Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the planet in just decades. The image shows a scene of two halves, with Mars’s typical bright tan-colored sands butting up against dark volcanic ash deposits. 🧪 🔭

Some cities in the United States are warming much faster than the nation as a whole. Reno, for example, has warmed nearly three times as much as the national average since the first #EarthDay in 1970. eos.org/research-and...

Happy #EarthDay! Meteorologists have the pleasure of looking back at our planet via NOAA GOES satellites as part of our everyday job. Never gets old. See for yourself: weather.gov/satellite. Also, visit noaa.gov/earthday for science stories, videos, and citizen science opportunities. #EarthDayNOAA

In honor of Earth Day, see images via The Atlantic Photo of the incredible resilience of nature: the many ways that plants, animals, and natural processes reclaim abandoned human places and find ways to thrive.

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Happy Earth Day

#PPOD: No, this photo, taken from the International Space Station, does not reveal a massive fire. Instead, the clouds reflect the sunset light, creating the illusion of flame. ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot captured this stunning view on April 9, 2026, posting: 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Happy #EarthDay from Eos! We love any reason to celebrate our beautiful planet. Credit: NASA/USGS Landsat 7; NASA Earth Observatory.)

"The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them," said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. "Roman will give the Earth a new atlas of the universe, and I think it’s worth pausing for a moment [to] just think about how really incredible that is.”

Our girl is 7 today! More grateful than ever to have this snuggly, foot-obsessed, brown-eyed gal in our lives.

Huzzah, it’s one of our favorite days… International #HaikuDay! (also: Friday) We’re celebrating with some Earth and space science-inspired entries. 🧵 Telescopes galore Sensing across space and time Share cosmic wonders eos.org/research-and... #haiku #PoetryMonth

This sounds like a case for Charlie Kelly, bird lawyer. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

All four astronauts standing in the aisle with their roller bags waiting for the door to open.

After a journey of 694,481 miles, in which they traveled farther from Earth than any humans have gone before, Artemis’s four astronauts have made it safely back home to Earth. eos.org/research-and...

Our neighbor is outside playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on a tongue drum, and it's weirdly both very appropriate and a major contrast to the nailbiting we are doing during the Artemis II comms blackout.

birds

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

Step aside, Rodents of Unusual Size. It’s Polymers’ of Intrinsic Microporosity day in the Sun (literallly). My latest for Eos.

"Under President Trump’s bold leadership, every tool in the executive fiscal toolbox has been utilized to achieve real savings," Vought writes in the intro to the budget proposal, literally one paragraph after outlining the request for *A 44% INCREASE* in defense funding.

"The process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. ... If you really, truly hate writing, if the only way you can do it is by using a plagiarism machine, maybe it’s just not for you." 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Grateful to have a boss who alerts the team when the annual Peep art award winners are announced. Nothing to do with our work as a science news outlet,but everything to do with our roles as citizens of the world www.ramart.org/exhibit/peep...

Apply for the AGU journalism awards! news.agu.org/press-releas...

"Excitement at Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral was palpable for the Artemis II launch. People traveled from around the world to witness 6 million pounds of technology rumble and rise." www.spacefoundation.org/2026/04/01/a...

Me waking up this week while my husband is off watching the Artemis II launch.

So excited that this feature from the inimitable Kim—about, as one researcher put it, "the potential for Rubin Observatory to rewrite the textbooks"—is finally out today!

Say hello to our Local Reporting Network reporters! 👋 • Luis Valentín of Centro de Periodismo Investigativo • Jenna Carlesso of @ctmirror.org • @jacobmargolis.bsky.social of @laist.com • Paige Pfleger of @wpln.bsky.social • @wmariano.bsky.social of @wbur.org More on their investigative projects ⤵️

One criticism of the chapter is that it was authored by climate law/science experts. But "if you’re asking about the effectiveness of the measles vaccine, you would ask people who basically understand the clinical research,” one source said. “You don’t have an obligation to include anti-vaxxers.”

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

#PPOD: Seattle, Washington, is one of the cloudiest cities in the United States. But that infamous cloud cover is no match for the U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), which is designed to peer straight through clouds. 🧪

I was just watching a recorded interview I did with my grandma, who recently passed. When I asked "How do you hope to be remembered?" she said "Hopefully they remember how I am." And then, "I think everybody, because you're all in different places, different positions, will have different memories."

How strong is the lightning on Jupiter? Researchers turned to radio wave data from the Juno orbiter to find out. eos.org/research-spo...

Join us TODAY at noon for a Rapid Readout about the consequences of the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. @zhirji.bsky.social, reporter at @bloomberg.com, will outline projected ripple effects on the U.S. economy, as well as identify possible paths forward. 👀 Watch at www.eesi.org/livecast!