The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) launched in Feb 2023 by the US State Dept in partnership with @africanunion.bsky.social, #AgMIP, @fao.org, and the African Orphan Crops Consortium. Phase 1 identified a list of nutritious and regionally relevant opportunity crops in five categories.

"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand" Really horrific www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Thailand to send aircraft carrier for flood relief as rains intensify reut.rs/4intODJ

The apocalyptic flood in southern Thailand has started to recede. Unfortunately there's been a lot of casualties (numbers not final, 33 last I heard), many of them children and elderly.

Devastating floods leaving long tail of destruction and impacts on Indonesia and Sri Lanka - this will not be over when the flood waters recede

Indonesia flood death toll climbs to 303 amid cyclone devastation, disaster agency says reut.rs/3MaBzR9

'Neighbourhoods buried under mud': Sri Lanka floods death toll rises to 159 ->Al Jazeera | #flood | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

🆘 Satellite imagery over Sri Lanka shows widespread #flood -affected zones, visible as broad beige swaths replacing vegetation. Inland waterlogging, disrupted land patterns, and heavy sediment transport reflect extensive #flooding well beyond the coastal strip. ⛈🌊 #SriLankaFlood #FloodSL #SriLanka

A new #AgMIP paper in Nature Climate Change presents a novel framework for integrating nutrient dynamics into crop models, offering key insights into targeting and strengthening nutrition interventions in a changing climate. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

🌍 Our new review shows how:
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(2) All forms of malnutrition are at risk
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HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.

The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!

If you are looking for climate visualizations using a "pre-industrial" baseline (1850-1900) for calculating anomalies, I update quite a few each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... (updated through April 2025)

Full sympathy for brillant climate scientists at NASA/GISS, literally expelled from their building. I still remember the depth of stimulating scientific discussions during my 1997 visit. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

Will you live an unprecedented life? In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...

Excited for publication of our new piece (led by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social) describing vast potential and substantial challenges at the intersection of process-based crop modeling & machine learning. @agmip.bsky.social AGML team has identified many opportunities to merge existing & new expertises

Achieving similar (or greater?) crop yield with less mineral fertiliser and pesticides? this new paper proposes a useful framework – with examples - to quantify the contribution of ecosystem services.

Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍

NASA SVS is a massive benefit to everything we do at NASA, helping us scientists communicate our findings in understandable, accessible, and creative ways that show off the wonder of our world and the amazing power of NASA capabilities!

Important perspective on food systems risks given accumulating and overlapping present day challenges. Without coordinated planning, individual responses may trip all over each other

Thrilled to be one of many virtual participants on first day of #AgMIP10 at CIMMYT for packed agenda of plenary panels, working sessions and paper and poster presentations. Big challenges to food and Ag systems need bold scientific advances and collaborations across borders and disciplines.

Dangerous wildfire outbreak unfolding, as predicted, across Southern Plains amid widespread wind gusts of 70-90 mph. In side-by-side satellite images below, numerous fast-spreading fires (black areas, left) & widespread blowing dust (brown areas, right) are apparent. #TXwx #OKwx

Compound-events community! Please join us Aug 4-6 in Portland, OR for a workshop connecting research and practice through systems-focused storylines. More info at cccriskworkshop2025.org, including a chance to provide input on priority themes. We're also on Bluesky: @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations. www.science.org/content/arti...

A study in Nature Food assesses the future climatic suitability of global croplands for 30 major food crop types, quantifying the changes in potential food crop diversity given climate conditions across four global warming levels. https://go.nature.com/3Dp5LEk #foodstudies 🧪

Fortunate to attend last night’s early access party for MoMA Pirouette exhibit featuring @edhawkins.org Climate Stripes and Climate Spiral alongside other iconic designs (like original I❤️NY, crocs and first emojis). I can’t share inside photos but climate stripes prominently visible from 54th St!

Calling post-doctoral researchers working on cities & climate! The @ipcc.bsky.social has several positions available for chapter scientists for our cities special report. It’s a fantastic opportunity. The IPPC’s keen to encourage diversity. (I am a review editor) onedrive.live.com?redeem=aHR0c...

Huge congratulations to @edhawkins.org on another big step to help the world engage with the climate challenge! Even better for all of us in New York who now have another reason to visit MOMA. This living graphic opened an avenue that has led to so many wonderful spinoffs and visceral events.

Check out the latest Food Systems Countdown Initiative report released Monday in @nature.com Food. You can find all the pubs here: www.foodcountdown.org. Also, you can see how the indicators interact on the Food Systems Dashboard with this cool feature: www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/fsci-interac...

So sad to read articles like this. We use Ben’s sea level projections in lots of our work. Even with world-leading expertise scientists cannot individually insulate themselves from climate impacts - challenges are bigger than independent self defense can protect against.

Looking for summer interns to help refine our climate game that builds off our IPCC SYR Figure SPM.1. Climate affects each region and generation differently - what if that was better represented in climate planning? Looking for USA undergrads to apply at stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

Unfortunately, more and more people have their own climate impact stories - climate change is not just something destined for other people in some other time and place.

Scale of devastation in Los Angeles is hard to comprehend. This snapshot from www.fire.ca.gov shows how the Eaton Fire is steamrolling through dense city neighborhoods, pushed on toward the coast by hot/dry Santa Ana winds. A catastrophic set of conditions on top of increasingly perilous baseline.

Pacific Palisades (left) after the #Palisades fire and Altadena (right) after the #Eaton fire. There are no words.

Kilauea eruption for Christmas Eve treat on the Big Island of Hawaii! Lava spurting several hundred feet high in a continuous fountain, with an ash and gas plume spectacularly catching the sunset. Only getting better as it gets darker

May be a good day to cancel my beach plans and head toward Kilauea volcano! High surf advisory already in effect and now vog is moving onto Kona side of Big Island (Hawaii). Nature flexing just a little here!

Our new paper (led by @janasillmann.bsky.social) consolidates and refines a lot of the learning that took place at the @wcrpclimate.bsky.social Open Science Conference in Kigali, Rwanda last year. Paper led by session leaders and participants showing how extreme events link with climate services.

Later this morning I will stand by AGU poster GC51X-0295 showing a study led by Max Elling. This collaboration between the NASA GISS ModelE Earth Systems Model development team and GISS Climate Impacts Group uses the Climatic Impact-Driver (CID) framework to track changes in ModelE versions. 🧵 1/4

For those at AGU - come hear me speak about A Virtual Agricultural Innovations Laboratory (AVAIL), a new NASA effort to link weather & climate, ground & satellite observations, process-based crop models & machine learning. All to benefit Iowa farmers & ag sector stakeholders. GC51C-05 9:05am Salon H

Interesting as an opening marker; near-term surface ocean transitions hard to predict right now

For those at AGU - stop by my poster this morning to learn about current state of climate game we have been developing over the past two years with a team of all-star interns. Game builds on IPCC SYR Figure SPM.1 to allow unique cooperation across time and space. Education section poster ED31B-2244

Track this starter pack to hear from world experts on agriculture and food systems modeling on BlueSky! Climate, crop, livestock, economics, and nutrition models need to coordinate to take on grand challenges. Any other AgMIP participants here that should be included in the AgMIP starter pack?

A recent paper by Ranjini Swamanathan et al. shows how many regional climatic impact-drivers are not strongly linked to an Earth System Model’s climate sensitivity. Regional dynamics can overwhelm this global signal with important implications for impacts and risk analysis. doi.org/10.1029/2024... 🧵