Can fuel made from aluminum scraps supply the clean heat industry needs? For @technologyreview.com, I got a sneak peak of Found Energy's largest aluminum-water reactor to date.

Here is our exclusive survey asking leading climate scientists to give their views on solar geoengineering: *66% believe we will see it attempted this century *52% say it will probably be done by a "rogue actor" *81% want an international treaty to manage risk www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

What do climate scientists really think about solar geoengineering? For @newscientist.com, @tinymaddie.bsky.social and I surveyed 120 IPCC authors about their attitudes towards solar geoengineering given the world's failure to slash emissions on time. The results were surprising:

Climate scientists believe humans will launch risky schemes to block radiation from the sun in a desperate bid to cool global temperatures before the end of the century - read more in our @newscientist.com excl from myself & @jamesdinneen.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

For those interested in this topic, @jamesdinneen.bsky.social wrote a great feature on the faltering land carbon sink this month for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Record gold prices = bad news for the Amazon www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Over the past two years, the land carbon sink appears to have weakened dramatically, driving the largest one year jump in atmospheric CO2 on record in 2024. Is this the end of the land carbon sink? I asked around for @newscientist.com.

Scary news for West Coast friends in my latest for @science.org. Disturbed ocean sediments off California suggest big earthquakes on the Cascadia fault can trigger big quakes on the San Andreas. The "Big One" could well become the "Big Two"...

NEWS: I'm writing a book about Earth's interior, from innermost inner core to the deep biosphere. Can't wait to share all I've learned about what's happening inside this planet and how it shapes the surface world we care about. 🌏 Subscribe here to follow along: northeastsouthwest.substack.com

We all must do our part.

I joined a team of ecologists wading through the muck of the Carolina coast in search of "ghost forests" killed by rising seas for @science.org. We were guided by a a new map that reveals millions of dead trees standing along the East Coast, marking an overlooked consequence of climate change...

Honored to have won an @sciencewriters.org "Science in Society" award for my @newscientist.com story on the Panama Canal's chronic water shortages. It's something the canal's visionary builders never imagined would be possible in one of the rainiest parts of the planet...

Whoa! First long-term ice core record of atmospheric *hydrogen*, which amplifies warming effects of methane, shows there has been a 60% rise since the industrial revolution. rt/ @tinymaddie.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Dinosaurs, like beavers or elephants or buffalo, were ecosystem engineers. I discuss a new study on how their extinction also transformed landscapes in @nautil.us. 🧪

Asgard archaea frozen in Siberia appear to have remained alive for more than 100,000 years based on DNA analysis. Genetic overlap with other Asgards suggests astonishingly long lifespans could be common trait among the closest living relatives of all eukaryotes. Per @karenlloyd.bsky.social etal.🧪

Solar panel exports from China to Africa surged 60 per cent over the past year, says @ember-energy.org. Unlike previous jumps, this upward trend was spread across the continent – with 20 countries seeing import records and 25 countries importing more than 100 megawatts worth of panels.🔌💡

Also learned that Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah (pictured below) is one of just a few US mines that have installed additional circuits to refine byproducts. Mainly a copper mine, but now also extract tellurium.

BUT during a DOE workshop I went to yesterday on critical minerals, undersecretary P. Wells Griffith III made clear the agency's support for byproduct recovery didn't rule out new mining in pursuit of "energy dominance". “We should never apologize for our modern way of life,” he said.🌞

The huge volume of ore extracted from existing US mines is full of critical minerals, but nearly all of this goes to waste. New analysis finds out just out how much is getting tossed out.🧪🔌💡

The sun has MOODS.🌞

Mouth-watering news...We've identified microbes that produce fine flavours in chocolate, a discovery that could lead to entirely new kinds of the delectable treat. www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

Very interesting here. www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

Nothing to see here, just the planet edging ever closer to deadly hot & humid conditions www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

Big new modeling study finds climate change may have locked temperatures in the Pacific Ocean into a pattern could drive drought in the western US for decades. More broadly, this suggests climate models may generally underestimate how much our emissions influence longterm cycles of ocean temps.🧪

Don't try this at home! Or maybe do? www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

Don't sleep on liming www.newscientist.com/article/2488...

With Duane Arnold restart announcement, some interesting background here about why it was shut down early: extreme weather.🔌💡 e360.yale.edu/digest/u.s.-...

cryptic crosswords anyone?

this is a cool idea

It’s eighty years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. On a special episode of the podcast: - The ‘forgotten’ human and environmental cost of the Manhattan Project - Annie Jacobsen on the current threat of nuclear weapons podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...

Earthquakes fracturing rock could unlock a wide menu of chemical energy sources for microbes living deep underground. 👀 www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

We have gone further than ever before in reshaping life, resynthesising the 4-million base pairs-long genome 🧬 of E. coli from scratch with 100,000 changes 🧪 Making that many changes screws up a lot of things, so getting it working was a "gargantuan effort" www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Tsunami warning are getting better, but there are still some big gaps. 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

The Trump administration is attempting to end the US government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by arguing they do not pose a danger to people. But climate scientists and lawyers say this argument is...um...weak.🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

@karenlloyd.bsky.social's new book Intraterrestrials offers the field guide to Earth's deep biosphere you didn't know you needed. Here's my review in @newscientist.com: www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

“This shows a linkage between animal biodiversity loss and a process that exacerbates climate change,” says Evan Fricke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We’re losing the regrowth potential of tropical forests.” 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

An 829 kilometer long lightning flash! SHOCKING. 😅⚡ www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Not a good look

Meltwater eruption in Greenland takes scientists by surprise www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Much of the "Climate Science Discussion" in EPA's Endangerment Finding repeal relies on this DOE report also released today: www.energy.gov/topics/climate

"The EPA Administrator found in 2009 that the EF for six long-lived GHGs was “compellingly” supported by “strong and clear” scientific evidence. Since 2009, the amount, diversity, and sophistication of the evidence have increased markedly, clearly strengthening the case for endangerment."

Since 2015, freshwater loss from land — mainly from pumping groundwater — has contributed more to sea level rise than melt from Antarctic ice sheet. 🧪

There's was lots of concern when we learned the land carbon sink in 2023 virtually disappeared due to fire, heat, and drought. Early estimates suggest it happened again in 2024 -- but for different reason.🧪

By one estimate, the world generates enough organic waste for this approach to remove as much as 5 billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year, enough to meet much of the CO2 removals needed to get to net zero emissions. 🧪

Cleaning up aerosol pollution is critical for public health. But reducing aerosols is also unmasking warming from greenhouse gases - researchers here find this influence is strongest in populated places. 🧪

This could be a big deal for farmers and CO2 removal: the centuries-old practice of liming has long been counted as a big source of emissions, but @climatejesper.bsky.social and colleagues say with proper accounting it might actually help remove large amounts of CO2 from the air.🧪🌍

The Senate just posted the report language of its FY26 science appropriations bill. This text lays out what they want done and carries the force of law if it is included in the final spending bill. It's a line-by-line refutation of Trump's proposed budget for NASA and NOAA.

Really important story from @tinymaddie.bsky.social - as we face a post-1.5°C world, what comes next? The Paris Agreement says we must stay "well below" 2°C, but what does that mean? There is a case to make 1.7°C our new target, but also good arguments against www.newscientist.com/article/2488...

Just another reminder we all live on the same giant vibrating ball.