Watch 1 minute and 50 seconds of the Artemis II launch from the Orion capsule, including booster separation and adapter panel jettison... ...set to "No Time for Caution" from the Interstellar score.

Biochar doesn’t age quietly. It transforms. At 350°C → aging boosts conductivity by >1000× At 750°C → aging destroys conductive networks And it flips biochar from electron donor to electron acceptor #SoilScience #CarbonCycle #EnvironmentalScience Read more: doi.org/10.1007/s427...

The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The 2026 Southwest U.S. heat wave was one of the six most astonishing weather events of the century yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...

The Artemis II crew is now getting a good look at the Moon—including parts we can't see from Earth! At the right of the Moon in this view is the Mare Orientale multiring basin, only a portion of which is visible to us normally. In this photo, the Moon's south pole is to the top.

ERA5 data confirmed that March 2026 was the warmest March on record. An amazing 38% of the Contiguous U.S. had it's warmest March in 2026.

BREAKING: For the first time ever, GasBuddy data showing average diesel prices have risen above $8 per gallon in San Francisco, CA- the first ever U.S. city to reach the $8 mark ever.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.

Friday

The crazy heat wave that gripped the southwest half of the U.S. in late March 2026 joins our semi-subjective top-six list of the meteorologically stunning extreme events this century that have most astonished myself and @bhensonweather.bsky.social : yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...

Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...

You know who thrives on validation? Me. And that means I like winning awards. Your vote could help me get another one: eatf.art/vote

Pure happiness ❤️

Transformative Change is both urgent and necessary to halt #biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 📢 🎥 Find out more in this summary video from part of the IPBES #TransformativeChange Report. 📖 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment #biodiversity#TransformativeChangetay tuned for more!

Today is the last day to take our survey!

Poem No matter How bad it gets Remember You are only Moments away from Non-stop Classic Rock

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Join KQED for a discussion of Silent Spring and its legacy and lessons for us on April 11 at the San Francisco Public Library as part of the Night of Ideas, at 7:30 p.m. inside the Periodical Room. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book yet. Come just as you are. 7/7

🚨BREAKING: Pam Bondi to be named Assistant to the Regional Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas

Welp this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Nuclear dust? What?!?

Awesome view of @NASAArtemis II, as viewed from NOAA weather satellite. Note the dark (warmer) dot launching off from Cape Canaveral and off to the northeast! #flwx #artemis

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

March 2026 was San Francisco's largest positive departure from normal temperatures ever observed in a month, by an exceptional margin. The average temperature was 7.1 degrees above the 1991-2020 normal. September 1984 was the previous high anomaly, at 6.5 degrees (above 1991-2020 normal). #CAwx

I'm really hoping this is an April fool's joke...

"...the U.S. Forest Service announced plans to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah. It will also close or repurpose all nine of its regional offices, create 15 state offices, and shutter research and development facilities in more than 30 states." 1/

I predict this will be one of the biggest issues of the decade. Insurers prevailing against fossil fuel and utility corporations will mean more and more bankruptcies for them, and there must be a plan for state receivership of their assets and public management going forward. We don't have one yet.

“Cardboard from shops and restaurant shredded for sale as horse bedding. The manure and cardboard were composted and the worms in the compost were fed to sturgeon, which yielded caviar that was sold back to the restaurants.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: A judge blocks a Trump administration order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Scientists have discovered that one dog year does not equal seven human years. In fact, the only thing that equals seven human years is 2026.

“.. Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed .. likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception: It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

The Dr. Ruth Report: 3/29/2026 🗞️ 1,500+ Measles cases in the US, Polio alerts in Europe, and a deep dive into how the gut-brain axis affects memory. Plus, the latest on "Cicada" & kids more and new COVID treatment options. 👉Stay informed: drruth.substack.com/p/dr-ruth-re... #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

Always resist: “When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.” (Orwell, 1984)

The U.S. Defense Department is looking for companies that can quickly supply prefabricated, transportable bunkers to protect troops amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

I hate all of this.

Trump's push to create the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service appears to have been done with all the thought & planning of the DOGE “reorganizations.” The new agency was created by a July 2025 EO to consolidate federal wildfire response in the DoI and to streamline operations, but it’s still unclear...

The Tea Party was awarded its own response to the State of the Union (in addition to the Republicans) by major networks who were desperate to pretend it was an organic movement of grassroots activists and not just an arm of the GOP. Can anyone imagine them granting a No Kings response to Trump?

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

"The Earth is an unbelievable place. It’s a miracle that we’re alive. And given how precious it is and how miraculous that is, it just redoubles my conviction about how important it is to preserve it and be good stewards of the planet and be appreciative for being alive to begin with." #MeToo

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

...because we all know how well aligned children are to their parents' political views as they get older, lol

Over 3,000 miles traveled and four landfalls in Australia. The incredible journey of Cyclone Narelle.

This is what the night sky looks like if you leave the shutter open long enough (below). This week—4 years later—SpaceX launched its 10,000th satellite into low-earth orbit. “[It] is getting exponentially worse, and it will continue to do so if we do not take major steps to mitigate the problem.” 🌎

Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…