It's interesting that most people don't seem to know what weather event kills more people every year in the U.S. according to the National Weather Service Here you go...

The spike in energy prices right now is due to Trump's war of choice (over access to middle east fossil fuels) and the increased expense of energy owing to Trump & GOP dismantling of cheaper renewable energy infrastructure. I explained for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Brazil closer to becoming a Champion Country of the Peatland Breakthrough Brazil's National Committee for Wetlands (CNZU) has recommended that the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment (Ministerio do Meio Ambiente) formally endorse the Peatland Breakthrough and explore a Champion Country role.

S. cuspidatum slowly colonising one of our many #ReflectingPool. #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog #Peatland

The whole issue of Nature Micro is up now, and look at that gorgeous cover! @emerge-bii.bsky.social co-director Ruth Varner took the picture. www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Peatlands are the unsung heroes against climate change. Yet, they are fragile. Globally, peatlands are being drained for farmland and cities. This week, the Global Peatlands Initiative is meeting in Peru. Over 60 organisations are coming together to protect these ecosystems: tinyurl.com/3jsf5dsv

🌿 Discover the fascinating world of Sphagnum mosses with ecologist @ryanclarkecology.bsky.social. Learn field ID skills, peatland ecology, and why these mosses are vital for carbon storage & conservation 🌎 🧪 📅 Tue 03 Nov 2026 | 🎟️ £12.50 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980357119...

Seeking expressions of interest for a researcher to support the Scottish Government by exploring the potential for a collaborative data and evidence framework for wind farm developments on peat in Scotland. ➡️Apply by 29 July 2026 www.climatexchange.org.uk/research-cal...

From the Somerset Levels to the rainforests of Borneo, peatlands store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined. Yesterday in Parliament, I called on the Government to establish bilateral peatland partnerships – sharing British expertise to ensure peatlands are protected across the globe.

Happy that an improved version of our preprint Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned. #sphagnum #moss #peatlands #climatechange #photosynthesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Government today confirms wave of new funding for peatland restoration programmes. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531847...

"Democratic candidates should abandon 'woke' social policy talking points like 'racism is a thing there should be less of' and focus instead on kitchen-table economic issues like 'immigrants should not be allowed to go to the doctor.'”

I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!

Please share: Thrilled to announce that I am recruiting a PhD student for the recently funded Research Council of Finland project "Sleeping Beauty". If you want to work in a great team on a fun project (and are not scared of mosquitoes 😉), apply by July 24th: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

#MicroSky Please share with your network: We have a 4-year PhD position open at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Come work with me and my team in deep peat in Pallas, Lapland. Mountains, swamps and microbes, what more could you ask for? 🦠

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.

Insanely weak slap on the wrist. Little Canada managed to get half a billion out of the people who were fixing the price of bread. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

"AI is inevitable!! It's here to stay!! Can't put the genie back in the bottle!! You can't stop progress!!! But uhhhh... if we had to legally obtain the resources needed to run our business AND unless we make trillions in profits AND unless you give up your drinking water, we're kinda toast 🥺"

AM I A WRITING LUDDITE? New post from me about AI writing: why I think we should be ruder about it, and how I might be wrong. Read to the bottom for as clear-cut a case as I can make that the "Productive State" report was largely AI-written. notes.archie-hall.com/p/am-i-a-wr...

A writer friend whom I will not embarrass was asked by his sister-in-law if he used AI to write. He snapped: "would you use a robot to have sex with my brother?" She was shocked. But I remember this story often, and the two kinds of people it reveals. *Most people are the sister-in-law*. 🧵

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

The Mediterranean Sea #heatwave is so severe, I ran out of colors in my color table. Sea surface temps are peaking at 8C/ 15F above normal! Perhaps more impressive is how expansive the area of +10°F anomalies are (in white). Much of the water is 29-32C/ 84-90F… 1/

It chimes with this viral article by Stefan Collini in the LRB about what's happening to higher education in the UK (none of it is good). All thanks to "marketisation" and the demand that academic research must lead directly to economic growth. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Absolutely Kafkaesque. The University of Exeter - a nonprofit - is turning a profit. Its managers say this demands budget cuts. They made everyone who knew in advance sign NDAs, waited for end of term, then eviscerated the environmental sciences during the second generational heatwave of June 2026.

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

“By the thinnest of margins, the extremely corrupt U.S. Supreme Court didn’t illegally overturn the Constitution in its entirely. Clearly this means the system is working as intended, so I will continue to do basically nothing to fight the rise of fascism in this country.” - Schumer

We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Earth & Environmental Geosciences @colgate.edu is hiring a tenure-stream asst professor in paleoclimate! For additional info regarding the position & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/188708 . Please share broadly & contact us with your questions. Thank you!

In addition to colonizing the West Bank, Israel is filling it with polluting industries, destroying the land and sickening Palestinians. Jasbir Puar's 'The Right to Maim' is really good reading on the topic of who is marked for debility and how this is a form of state violence, FYI.

New paper! We revisit Fredskild’s Greenland pollen diagrams from the 70s & compare these to published pollen & other temp estimates to dig into shrub response to climate in the Arctic. A fun collaboration between Bryan & me, inspired by our distinct & initially contrasting perspectives on the topic

AC saves lives, but it also increases risk of catastrophe if there's a blackout during a heatwave. One recent study projected that a three day blackout in Phoenix during a heatwave would send half the population of the city to hospital emergency rooms. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

"It’s become glaringly obvious how bad we are at coping with heat. Brits love a holiday. We travel for the sun. But this is not fun. One person on social media yesterday described this as not vacation heat but like standing directly in the heat that comes out of the back of a bus"

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President

Breaking records by 1.5C rather than 0.1C is both astonishing and horrifying. We are entering a different climate - a geologically different climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Breaking records by 1.5C rather than 0.1C is both astonishing and horrifying. We are entering a different climate - a geologically different climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can't afford AC. Yesterday my younger brother got heat stress just from sitting in his room. I've had heat stroke so spotted the signs and got temp down before it escalated. It was still scary though. Any one who says AC is a luxury, is a grade-a numpty.

Worst ever, so far. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Given the humidity levels in the UK, the fact that meteorology reports aren't routinely including wet bulb temperatures is a dreadful omission. Never heard of wet bulb? Please learn, because it's something you really need to know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bul...

This. Too often climate scientists pander to far right, racist fears of migration to argue for climate action rather than explaining that the climate harm already done obligates us to embrace it.

Worst ever, so far. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting read as someone trying to learn more about peatlands! I've heard a lot about trees on peatlands and this was a great summary for this in the UK. Nice to see the involvement of members from @wetwoodlands.bsky.social #wetwoodlands www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/news/native-...

Fantastic and important work that sheds light on how the fossil fuel industry has put its thumb on the scales of climate solutions research. What kills me is that I expect this from them. I expect better from academic researchers. Collusion just undermines trust and makes it harder to do our jobs.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23