Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6% — higher than the global average. Read our feature: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A green transition deal was worked out in Spain... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!

C'mon, @theglobeandmail.com. Are you kidding us with this nonsense? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

So far, the Trump administration has filed about 80% fewer court cases against polluters than during the president's first term.

“There’s a tendency in certain government departments to trivialise the impacts of #climate on the economy so as to avoid making difficult choices today. This is a big problem – the consequences of delay are catastrophic.” - Mark Campanale, CEO of @carbontracker.bsky.social

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

How cold has this winter been so far? The first 2/3 of winter 2025-26 is the 7th warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S.

Flaring Hell 🔥 LNG Canada has been flaring up to 15 times more gas than expected, Vancouver Sun share.google/GsdDR3S23vwT...

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

#HeadsUp La Niña is Dissolving Rapidly 🔥 La Niña is Dissolving Rapidly, Marking the Start of a Major Atmospheric and Oceanic Shift for 2026 » Severe Weather Europe share.google/gP8VXKYfnR11...

One molecule of a CFC could have the same warming effect as up to 10,000 molecules of carbon dioxide www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/s...

ICYMI: “New research shows less snowpack in certain regions of Canada can have wide-ranging effects on everything from farms and wildlife to the broader economy.” www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-... - CTV News #Canada #CanadianRockies #Environment #GreatLakes #Hydrology #Okanagan #Quebec #SnowDrought

"The Italian gov on Mon declared a state of emergency for southern regions battered by Cyclone Harry last week. The powerful storm brought relentless rain & waves as high as 9m...[destroying] roads &coastal defences, sweeping away beach resorts. The cost of the damage is estimated at more than €1bn"

To study the distribution of phytoplankton🦠 and marine snow❄️, we are sending a holographic camera down on the CTD rosette to a take a 3D image every second. Then we can reconstruct bio volume and export! The most common phytoplankton on this cruise has been Chaetoceros socialis (⬇️) #oceanography 🇦🇶🐧🌊

"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models" #AMOC #FasterThanExpected

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

Arctic sea ice volume is at a record low for the time of year, it has been at a record daily low for well over a year. The image shows Arctic sea ice volume through January 22, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/gree...

"Single ship load of solar PV – which can ultimately deliver 170 terawatt hours of PV once installed, is now worth 120 coal carries, or 57 LNG tankers"

BC friends, take note! This is a pretty major development that should be getting more attention: Both Shell & Mitsubishi appear to be seeking to offload their stakes in LNG Canada... www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Today we launched our 2025 Climate Action Progress Report, evaluating the #BCgov. The result? 8 failing grades, and 2 grades of minor progress. The worst outcome in 4 years. FULL REPORT: bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-rep... @cape-bc.bsky.social @myseatosky.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social

I heard a story on the radio that I really liked, and I wrote to the reporter to express my appreciation. This is the reply I received: "Thank you David - your appreciation note is rare and came right when I needed it." We should do this more often. Journalism is so important to a free society.

"The time for a strong stance on climate change will always be now, we owe it to our children, grandchildren, and all future generations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social #bcpoli #climatesky

One ship went to so.. went to solarize the medow ⚡ One ship loaded with solar PV is now worth more to the grid than 120 coal-carriers reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-loa...

Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the Paris climate agreement by the end of the decade

2025 was the third hottest year ever. Trend is worrying and faster than expected a few years ago. Only when we stop burning coal, oil and gas, temperature will stop rising. www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Fires on the Rise in the Far North science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

"They don't plug them in." insideevs.com/news/784328/...

Denmark's December car sales data just released. Battery-electrics reached an incredible 81% in December to make up 68% for the year.

China's December numbers are in, and battery-electric cars made up 35% in December and 33% for the year. Plug-in hybrids made up another 21% for the year for a total "new-energy" share of 54% in 2025. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

I answer CAPTCHAs incorrectly on purpose because I ain’t training your AI.

Read this preprint from @manonberger.bsky.social, Lester Kwiatkowski, @bopplaurent.bsky.social, and me about how if you consider iron limitation, growing seaweed doesn’t work as a CO₂ removal (CDR) technique. 🌊

Oil and gas companies are sitting on nearly 9,000 approved but unused drilling permits on U.S. federal lands, while the Trump administration invades Venezuela on their behalf. www.landdesk.org/p/data-dump-... via @landdesk.bsky.social

Arctic sea ice volume in April 2025 was low. Little melting took place April-Sep 2025, yet in Sep 2025 there was a record low Arctic sea ice volume. Volume in 2026 is even lower, so strong melting from April 2026 may cause a Blue Ocean Event later in 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/sea-...

"As the total operating cost of #electrictrucks falls below diesel and #LNG, electrification has accelerated." Carney and Eby are trying to sell us a dead parrot. The LNG 🦜 isn't going to stay nailed to the perch for long. #bcpoli

“Protecting Greenland's ice is the most important piece of national security and global security you can imagine. It's not critical minerals. It's not military strategy. It's keeping that ice frozen.” - Longtime climate researcher Paul Bierman. Watch the rest: revkin.substack.com/p/tonight-me...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

"What we're finding is that these glaciers are disappearing much faster than previously projected" - Prof. Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia and the chief scientist at the Airborne Coastal Observatory of the @hakai.org ##FasterThanExpected #ClimateEmergency

Some deep-sea facts for you! High pressure changes protein folding, requiring specialized enzymes to function at depth. Deep-sea life isn’t just tougher. It runs on proteins that often stop working at surface pressure. europepmc.org/article/med/...

This one isn't as sharp as I would like but I still love this shot I got two years ago today! The vibrant reflection on the Puyallup River in Tacoma was caused by different colored shipping containers and I watched as this Common Merganser paddled right into the shot. #Birds #Nature #Photography

In the Northern Hemisphere, 2025 was the third year in a row with temperature anomalies more than 1.5°C above 1951-1980 and much more when compared to pre-industrial. Note also that El Niño wasn't elevating temperatures in 2025. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/sea-...

❄️ 75-year annual snowfall trend. Snowfall is decreasing almost everywhere during this period. It's as if something has changed. 😐😢😭

WTF Look at the list. It's so much easier to destroy than create. All they do is destroy.

Monthly averages of nitrous oxide concentrations recorded near Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/sea-...

Maybe throw some venture capital at this rather than at A.I. autocomplete chat bots.

“Canadian policy arsonists” have crashed and burned climate policies promoting EV sales, putting Canada wayyyy behind other countries. Carney would do well to read @bsaxifrage.bsky.social, and close the door on fossil fuel & auto industry lobbyists. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/06/a...

So far 10 countries with data for December available.