Loving this episode of What If We Get It Right? with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social & @samlmontano.bsky.social How To Prepare For Climate Disasters. My students will be listening to this episode this semester & you should too podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

🌊 Plastics aren’t just polluting the ocean, they might be messing with the marine carbon cycle too. A new study argues plastics could disrupt how the ocean captures and stores CO₂. A hidden climate risk? 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An “audacious plan” to describe global temperature change with music. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.

Great journalism uncovers unexpected stories, poses uncomfortable questions, and offers no easy answers. This is great journalism: 🎁 How a Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/m...

New post on major Southwest/CA heatwave starting tomorrow and major uptick in wildfire risk--especially in SoCal. Also, a better-late-than-never monsoonal moisture surge will occur this week, w/at least mtn/desert t-storms... #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater

See where plastic ends up in the ocean - and likely in sea creatures and your sea food.

Human-driven climate change threatens many species, including birds, and 70 years of data show that extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations theconversation.com/70-years-of-...

Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion theconversation.com/wildfire-sea...

Starting tomorrow, the coming week will be pretty hot across most of California--especially, once again, across higher elevation and interior regions--but the heat will not be extreme. Still, expect a considerably uptick in wildfire activity. #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

For those of us interested in California coastal ecology, the timing of the coming tsunami is particularly interesting. By this time of year, many of California's estuaries are closed off from the ocean by a sandbar that forms in response to decreased inflows and constructive wave energy:

Due to mass confusion, clarifying again: Tsunami Watch: Tsunami of indeterminate magnitude is possible; stand by. Tsunami Advisory: Tsunami is likely *but will probably be small.* Evacuations unlikely. Tsunami Warning: Tsunami is likely *and may be large.* Evacuations needed.

News from a failing nation …

#Breaking: Just got off the phone with a NOAA spokesperson. DOD has stated that SSMIS microwave scans will be made available to NOAA through the end of the satellites’ lifespan and until the replacement instrument’s data comes online.

I stand for NOAA. But I can't stand being gaslighted by current comms staff (yes—just 'doing their job' and afraid of repercussions). They describe what will remain after SSMIS data ends as “the richest most accurate satellite weather observations available” (pics @michaelrlowry.bsky.social)

Oxygen isotope ratios in ancient zircons suggest that Earth had an active water cycle as early as 550 million years after its formation. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/when-did-fre...

This is a type of rock called a banded iron formation. It's made of alternating layers of iron oxides (magnetite and haematite) and silica (chert and chalcedony). It's 3.2 billion years old. And it formed before life had oxygenated Earth's seas and atmosphere. It's almost from another planet.

Scientists found an ocean microbe sugar that makes cancer cells explode via pyroptosis 💥🧬 A natural compound that kills tumors + boosts immunity—proof that nature holds powerful cures 🌊🌱 #CancerResearch #OceanScience #NatureHeals #BiotechBreakthrough www.sciencedaily.com...

Researchers are attaching sensors to sharks’ dorsal fins to collect temperature and other data, which are then fed into computer models to improve forecast accuracy of the power and path of Atlantic hurricanes. 🦈🌀

I got to write about my favorite sea slug, can you even believe this thing www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The Moss Landing Battery Backlash Has Spread Nationwide New York City may very well be the epicenter of this particular fight. by @jael.bsky.social heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...? #NewYork #NYC #Batteries #Energy #Renewables #Climate

The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

So excited to participate in this panel discussing the history and future of #PalaeoPERCS and the amazing, inclusive, and absolutely brilliant international community of early career pal(a)eo scientists! Please join us at 15:00 UTC today for this really important discussion!

This is a really really important angle. Federal funding supports radio and TV in rural areas where it wouldn't otherwise be economical. That means rural areas will now have less ways of being warned for severe weather.

Finalizing my book list for my summer biological oceanography class at Bodega Marine Lab 🧪 📚 🌊. In addition to standard course materials, students choose 1 book from this list to read, and meet in book groups! Here’s my current list, including beloved student favorites and some new additions. (1/n)

The full documentary Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather is now out on YouTube: youtu.be/X6VCTfzl1DU

Large parts of several species of fig trees in Kenya found to naturally convert into calcium carbonate, internally above ground and in root structures deep in the soil, trapping carbon from the atmosphere long after the trees have died. www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Aiming to add one new U.S. climate indicator per day to zacklabe.com/united-state..., this one was pretty grim... changes in the net mass of ice for 4 reference glaciers ☹️

Any international research colleagues interested in a move to Australia 🌊🔬🧪🇦🇺🌏

This (nearly 2 hour long!) livestream discussing the meteorology and broader context surrounding the Texas flood disaster was recorded live, and is now available in its entirety at link below. Journalists: as always, please feel free to pull any audio/video content from this recorded broadcast.

There is some debate, scientifically, regarding just how easily infectious fungal spores can actually spread during wildfire events. But there's evidence for some level of long-range transport...and firefighters digging dusty handlines along perimeter are more clearly at risk.

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

Some perspective on recent warmth over past month in California. Many folks, most of whom live within ~20 miles of the coast, have been asking: where's all this hot weather I keep hearing about? Well...the short answer is inland & across hills/mountains. [Thread] #CAwx #CAfire

Utterly stunning @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social optical gas imaging video from the site of Musk's massive new fossil power station fuelling the Grok text generation engine on X @nickcunningham.bsky.social's full write-up here - must-read gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai... All this for a crappy chatbot.

🚨 New record high! Global ocean heat content now updated through March 2025... This is human-caused. Data (anomalies) & methods from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa... 🌊

🌻 Greta Thunberg being released... the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

Grading is hard enough, now the CSU is pushing an AI tool "for higher education". What happened to the critical thinking core tenet of a CSU education? www.404media.co/teachers-are...

It’s working! Keep calling your representatives to support science & scientists. NOAA/NWS awareness & pressure has come from multiple scientists and industry leaders—from the Weather and Climate 💯 hour Livestream to Michael Lowry in NY Times, to so many others. www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

⚖️ A German court has affirmed that major polluters can be held legally responsible for their share of climate harm. In their latest blog, @ucs.org breaks down the landmark ruling and why it matters for climate justice.

In case you missed it yesterday: this "double-header" session-- focused on both recent federal developments regarding #weather, #climate, and #disaster response--plus the (alarming) fire season outlook for the Western U.S. and Canada--was recorded as is available at the link below. #CAfire #CAwater

Broadcast meteorologist and UCS Science Defender @johnmoralestv.bsky.social explains how the gutting of federal science—specifically at the National Weather Service and NOAA—is degrading forecast accuracy. “We might not know exactly how strong a hurricane is before it reaches the coastline.”

Nationally, 88% of 247 cities analyzed have experienced a growing influence of human-caused climate change on summer's hottest days. National average = ~6 days/year made at least 2x more likely. 7 of the top 10? Located in the South -- particularly in Texas.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time. That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years. The global RATE of increase is off the chart. It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!

Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.

New study published by my colleague Dr Elvis Okoffo QAEHS @UQ - microplastic pollution from dishwashing. The water then flows through waste water treatment plants to the ocean. So we might be doing better in reducing macroplastic on beaches and in the waterways - microplastics are still prevalent.

An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.