🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

Something I wish more people understood: part of the point of shock-and-awe grant terminations at NIH and NSF has been to make scientists and university administrators afraid to speak out against the administration. And it's working. But, some of us were never going to get a grant from them anyway.

🔴 #THISISCLIMATECHANGE 🔥 Wildfires in Canada—sending smoke into the Northeast U.S.—were fueled by extreme heat, 20°F+ above average for early August. 🌡️ Meanwhile, 53M people in the U.S. Southwest & Mexico are facing extreme heat that’s nearly impossible without climate change. 🧵/6

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wildfire smoke in New England, please stay safe!

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Trump administration is launching a new wave of attacks on universities, and UCLA is the latest target. My reporting on how the university has been hit and how some of its scientists are responding: www.science.org/content/arti...

Wildfire smoke and unhealthy air fills the Midwest before spreading to the East wapo.st/45f1ddo

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

One thing very few people know, even in the climate-health research space, is that - in addition to NIH / NSF / NASA / EPA blocking any new research on climate change and health - all the philanthropies have decided to take NGO-shaped roles rather than fund research, and so they aren't stepping in.

🎆NEW RESEARCH OUT In our new study published in One Earth, we uncovered hard truths about NO2-related health disparities in the U.S. Racial-ethnic minorities were generally more exposed and susceptible. The most affected race-ethnicity group was location-specific.

In ‘blow to the environment,’ EPA begins to dismantle its research office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 NEW STUDY: Despite falling CA air pollution 1980-2022, relative racial disparities in short-term NO₂ exposure worsened. ➡️ Hispanic/Latino communities faced 3X MORE high-pollution days (>50µg/m³) than White residents in 2020. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134211

Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Beyond just physical damage and lives lost, floodwaters can cause increased health risks including: ➡️ Diarrhea ➡️ Mold ➡️ Chronic conditions ➡️ Stress and mental health disorders ➡️ Disruption to health care services Read more ⬇️ abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...

NYTimes: Texas Flood Live Updates: Death Toll Tops 100, Including 27 at a Girls’ Camp www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Devastating to see over 50 lives lost in Texas floods💔This tragedy reflects a broader pattern our Nature Communications study uncovered:~100 Texans died yearly from flooding—not just from drowning, but injuries, heart, and lung diseases. @lingzhichu.bsky.social 📊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Methane-Tracking Satellite Is Lost, in a Blow to Climate Efforts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/c...

As US population level health data becomes ever-more unreliable … we are proud to unveil a new resource for families, policy makers, and healthcare providers @yalesph.bsky.social

Intense Heat Wave Will Leave the Midwest Sweltering This Weekend www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

Judge Young was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here he excoriates the Trump Administration's termination of grants at NIH. This is just the start of a process. But it is ground-breaking and good news for today.

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Today's the day when the US government officially throws in the towel on the climate fight. Which means the rest of us have to pick up the slack www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The National Weather Service issued air quality alerts for New York City for Wednesday and many of the surrounding suburbs, including those in New Jersey and most of southern Connecticut. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

I laughed. I cried, and cried some more. But then I called my members of Congress, Governor, state representatives, and County Executive to demand more climate action. I urge everyone to do the same. @mason4c.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/climat...

Since Lincoln was President, the National Academies has provided unbiased expert guidance to the government. I’ve had the privilege of serving on multiple committees, and the excellent staff takes their responsibility to help the country very seriously. What are we doing here?

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

It’s hard to get public sympathy for Harvard losing money. But this assault is killing jobs and destroying careers, with incalculable losses of knowledge about science and health. And if this stands, any school, non-profit, or business could be at risk just for making the administration mad.

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

In the 1980s, the US experienced one billion-plus dollar extreme weather disaster on average every 4 months. Today? There’s one every 2 weeks, and 9 in 10 Americans say they’ve felt the impacts. Clearly, this is the record to cut—if you don’t want to show how climate change is hitting home.

Inspiring Health Effects Institute 2025 Annual Meeting with books signed, legends introducing the past and future of air pollution epidemiological research! Science moves forward, despite the political wind turbines. #EpiSky

AGU and AMS are inviting manuscripts for this new, first-of-its-kind, special collection focused on climate change in the United States. This catalog of over 29 peer-reviewed journals covers all aspects of climate, including observations, projections, impacts, risks, and solutions. #climatechange

Post-flood hospitalization risks persist for months, with variations by climate type, flood severity, age, population density, and SES. Check out our News&View article on "Prolonged health risks following floods" @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social @cchyale.bsky.social @yalesph.bsky.social rdcu.be/ekewT

AGU GeoHealth, Current Environmental Health Reports, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, (assuming others are too, feel free to add) stepping in to help with the big loss of #EHP 🧪 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists. Thanks to @jonlevybu.bsky.social highlighting the huge loss www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

AGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce. buff.ly/3U56ooz

I too was a proud contributing author on the National Climate Assessments (#NCA6) Northern Great Plains chapter, where we emphasized topics pertinent to the people, ecosystems, and economy of this area. It is a true loss to the people of this region, who face unique climate related challenges

1/2 - While we feel deeply sorry for the pause of EHP publications, we the AGU GeoHealth journal would like to help! If you have a manuscript that was recently withdrawn from EHP, the AGU GeoHealth journal would be happy to consider your manuscript. If your manuscript has been peer-reviewed...

If you recently had a manuscript withdrawn from EHP, the AGU GeoHealth journal would be happy to consider your work. For manuscripts that have already undergone peer review and are in the revision stage, we can fast-track the review process. #EpiSky @isee-global.bsky.social

In this historical moment of anti-science, the story and journey of this year’s Winslow Medal awardee @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social inspires us @yalesph.bsky.social on how to keep the important public health work ongoing despite challenges ahead! Thank you, Dr Hotez! @meganranney.bsky.social

So sad to see this happening: the leading environmental health journal EHP stops handling manuscripts. Some friends with manuscripts in revision (months to even a year in the peer review process) got their manuscripts withdrawn. Hope this is just a pause but not the end.

Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies? Yes, we can. The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing sessions at the National Academy of Medicine Climate Health Summit. A great way to celebrate the 55th Earth Day!

One way to “celebrate” Earth Day - cuts to this small research portfolio apparently even include a highly successful industry/government co-funding model. www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Please join us for a Panel Discussion -- Sustaining Climate & Health Research: A Conversation with Funders, featuring panelists from NSF, Wellcome Trust, The Rockefeller Foundation, and UCSF.