As someone who used to be on the Board of Scientific Counselors providing outside science advice to EPA’s ORD, this is excruciating. No more ORD, no more independent advice, no more scientific discovery that doesn’t fit with political appointees views.

A must read. Blocking climate policy was the instigation for the birth of the Supreme Court shadow docket. Let’s be very clear that ‘vote for the climate candidate’ is hollow advice when 1) our courts don’t understand climate science 2) rightwing justices change procedures to prevent climate action

Would be great if we could get the term #climate-flation into US discourse as well, because there is no doubt that some commodities are rising in price due to climate impacts (eg chocolate), as well as the impacts of war, trade disruptions, and tariffs weadapt.org/knowledge-ba...

Please raise your voice to oppose the dissolution of the SBE directorate at #NSF, and with it, elimination of support for all social science research. Check out the action opportunities at cossa.org/action-cente...

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

Check out this new paper - but also let's be clear that we are not doing the things we need to be doing to stop the next pandemic! USAID funded many projects aimed at both reductions in wildlife trade and disease surveillance - and now it is gone 🥺 We need a new governance and funding strategy, stat

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don’t miss this piece by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social on #climate science being dismantled at NASA even as we celebrate Artemis II www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

"Where does your food come from? The supermarket or a local farm, you might think, or maybe you even grow your own. But really the answer is fossil fuels – and thanks to the ongoing Iran war, you are going to start noticing that." www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

A problem we warned about in 5th National Climate Assessment: changes in timing of plants and animals can have major economic and cultural impacts. Flower festivals depend on having flowers - what happens when timing, location and quality changes? 🧪 #climatechange www.science.org/content/arti...

War with Iran is driving much of Southeast Asia to rethink fossil fuel development. In the end Trump may do more to accelerate low-carbon renewables than formal #climatechange policies have www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Headline doesn’t capture it all - large majority of USFS research stations to close including all regional offices. So short-sighted, as many of the scientists affected will likely resign Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Devastating

Very glad to see reference to Fifth National Climate Assessment in this story about changing phenology - ealier peak bloom is directly linked to #climatechange 🧪https://abcnews.com/US/dcs-iconic-cherry-blossoms-reach-earlier-average-peak/story?id=131441245

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

The news this week from Southeast Asia has been all about fuel shortages: universities moving to 3 day week, cancelled internal airflights, fuel rationing. Maybe the Iran War will actually hasten the move away from imported fossil fuels for many countries: www.eco-business.com/news/solar-c...

ICYMI: my letter to Science last week urging continued US engagement with @ipbes.net and @ipcc.bsky.social despite federal withdrawal. Scientists, universities, professional societies, NGOs, subnational actors - all can keep us engaged for the next few years: www.science.org/eprint/JVSSA...

I'm sorry, but WTF? Throwing aspersions on federal #climate scientists as 'politicized' during Biden admin with zero examples/evidence. Meanwhile this administration is dismantling key climate institutions & preventing scientists from using scientific terms in their work. Who exactly is politicized?

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It took just a couple of days for #DOGE to decide around 1,400 grants at National Endowment for Humanities were all suspect and should be 'clawed back', based on ChatGPT output. In contrast, the original evaluations of these grants took MONTHS and hundreds of hours of work 1/

Interesting article that shows how declines in bats (white nose syndrome) reduces US farm profitability (by increasing pesticide use to make up for losses of bats) which then reduces county tax assessments and increases interest rates on municipal bonds #biodiversity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICYMI - I'm party to an ongoing lawsuit by Authors Guild as a #NEH grantee whose project was cancelled by DOGE in April 25 before it even began. Despite ChatGPT stating that my project on the environmental impacts of the Vietnam War was not 'DEI', it was still cut 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Thank you business and professional groups for stepping up and helping make the economic case for why NCAR (and federal climate science investments more generally) matter!

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One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective

The world is a mess right now and if you need carbs to help you cope (I certainly do) my kiddo is selling Girl Scout cookies. She's a long way away from her goal due to multiple snow storms. But you can order online & have them shipped anywhere in the US! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/riley5...

This turns 23 next month theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Our alliance shows the need to work together when a problem pops up! Proud to be able to support the nearly 80 US authors working with IPCC across AR7

Very glad to see this deep dive on what the demise of USAID has meant for global #biodiversity conservation - we used to be one of the biggest funders, and that all stopped nearly overnight. www.biographic.com/the-future-o...

How can Europe deliver transformative change for biodiversity? 🗓️ Join our Science-Policy Forum on 21 April (afternoon, online) for discussions on the IPBES TC assessment, KMGBF implemention, EU policy, justice, finance, systemic change and more! www.biodiversa.eu/2026/02/25/s...

The Biden administration did a lot of good things that did not generate political gain. This paper argues that "voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors" made harder by federalism and the role of private actors in delivery www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

As someone who has worked on projects in Burma and seen what the military coup and ethnic cleasing of the Rohingya has done to that country and its people, this death of an asylum-seeking refugee in *this country* - where he came for REFUGE - is horrifying www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

The equity impacts of nature and biodiversity loss in the US are huge. We discussed this in our #NCA5 ecosystems chapter but great to see this new deeper analysis.

Two job opportunities with the @ipcc.bsky.social WG1 TSU: Science Officer: www.ipcc.ch/2026/02/17/s... AI Officer (deadline passed but will consider applications until the end of the week): www.ipcc.ch/2026/01/12/a...

The importance of Indigenous knowledge for finding creative solutions to impacts of the climate crisis: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Chúc mừng năm mới to all in Vietnam! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Tet holiday in this year of the fire horse!

New Jersey peeps: New Brunswick has proposed scrapping a new city park to instead build a data center, located near homes and school. There has been very little info shared about this plan and why the sudden change. City meeting Wed 18th @ 5:30pm City Hall for those who want to express their concern

#IPBES12 is underway with opening statements. Colombia for GRULAC begins with a tribute to a ‘founding member’ who has left—the US—and hopes they will be back soon. Got a little choked up at that - ❤️ - I too hope the US will be back soon.

Great to be here in Manchester to focus on global biodiversity knowledge, especially given misguided US federal withdrawal from IPBES last month. US universities and institutions are still in! Happy to represent @Rutgers and network with other orgs on how we can support a biodiversity agenda

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

Amid all the horrors in MN right now, the fact that Alex Pretti was an interdisciplinary environmental studies graduate from UMN got to me. He was just like my students, who care deeply about both people and nature. Hoping for justice for his family.

Given all that's going on, here's another systemic risk out there: the collapse of food production due to biodiversity loss in key areas of the world. This UK security analysis get it - a key message of the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment as well. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please sign letter @agu.org has organized in opposition to the withdrawal of the US from UNFCCC and other global #climate and environmental policy institutions 🧪 agu.quorum.us/campaign/152...

My colleague @bobkopp.net has a nice thread rundown of the many problems and illegal actions of the Dept of Energy Climate Working Group report based on the emails that came out yesterday from @envdefensefund.bsky.social lawsuit: www.edf.org/media/newly-... I would just add a few things re NCA5 1/

In the meantime, the US has decided actual UN agencies and agreements that have helped govern the commons since WW2 are no longer worth being a part of 🙈

"Why don't scientists engage more with public?" people always complain. But our outlets are slow and limited! Case in pt: I wrote editorial immediately after recent Trump admin withdrawal from global enviro science. Rejected from newspaper after waiting several days to hear so lost timeliness 1/2

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...