Great piece by @naomioreskes.bsky.social. I've personally had more success with philanthropic funding than gov grants, but I work in an (unnecessarily) controversial area of researching food and climate. When public funding dwindles, we all lose. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is one of the most clear‑headed soil microbiome papers I’ve read. No hype, just solid science. You might be shocked by how much we still don’t know about soils. By @noahfierer.bsky.social Unfortunately, not open access. www.nature.com/articles/nrm...

The Plant Treaty marks a major milestone in the Arctic, with deposits to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and its first-ever deposit of official materials in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a secure preservation facility deep within the permafrost. 📰 bit.ly/4rA5W3n @fao.org @nordgen.bsky.social

🔴 Nearly 6.5 million Somalis face high levels of hunger, and more than 1.8 million children face acute malnutrition due to worsening drought, the Somali government and UN agencies have warned in a new report. https://bit.ly/4cO4lCo

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand @pnas.org 🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Re-upping this one...

Pop ecology gives us appealing slogans—“nature knows best,” “the balance of nature”—but fails to reflect reality and so misleads agriculture. Here's what the ecology of reality actually tells us. My latest... csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

Labour MP Richard Burgon, "As a society its time for a serious discussion about cancelling student debt" "Instead we should fund higher education through progressive taxation"

"Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky. Changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky." academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Enjoying the Rothamsted PhD Symposium today - so many exciting posters and projects from single genes to tiny insects to wide agricultural landscapes @rothamsted.bsky.social #cropscience #phdlife

A year ago, I was up against Matt Goodwin - now Reform UK's candidate in the crucial by-election this week - on Question Time. Here's what happened. www.thenational.scot/news/2493544...

Rice fields can do more than grow grain 🌾 In Cambodia they help farmers capture water, raise fish, diversify crops and build resilience to climate shocks. @worldfish.bsky.social Want more real-world examples like this? 💌 Sign up for our newsletter 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4qkFmcV

A gripping story by a great reporter

Sorry, but more sustainable farming isn’t more natural farming. It’s farming that doesn’t overrun so much of the earth. That means higher-yield farming that makes more food per acre, so it doesn’t need so many acres to make food.

The data centres needed to power the UK's artificial intelligence revolution would use more electricity than the entire country consumes at its peak. MPs called for a “national conversation” about data centres, including putting climate change targets at risk. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

What you have to understand is that Carbon Capture and Storage is driven not by environmental concerns but by fossil fuel industry demands. It provides both a new revenue stream (at our expense) and the mother of all greenwashing schemes. Whether it works or not (it doesn't) is entirely irrelevant.

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells one story. Not a moral exam so we can escape to heaven. But heaven and earth — overlapping, interlocking realities. Don't miss this conversation with NT Wright. goodfaith.org/podcasts/n-t...

Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.

New research shows that by 2050 global yield losses linked to extreme heat at flowering could rise by about one-third. By 2090, those losses could increase by more than 75%. Full story👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/extreme-heat-and-drought-flowering-could-put-future-wheat-harvests-risk

At #MSC2026, leaders from @fao.org @ifad.org @wfp.org @iom.int and @cgiar.org#MSC2026joined #OrderofMalta to examine how climate shocks, fragile supply chains, and shrinking humanitarian budgets are deepening food insecurity. 🔴 Watch: https://on.cgiar.org/465hgMb

Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation” | Article by Joe Wilkins (@joeonhere.bsky.social) for @futurism.com: futurism.com/science-ener...

Even in the darkest night, when all hope seems lost, Stand fast for what is right, no matter what the cost. Remember that you cannot lose, despite the loss and sorrow. We can only change the things we choose, and the sun will rise tomorrow.

Trump is going full anti-science 🤡 Key US weather and climate research centre set to lose supercomputers. @channel4news.bsky.social @theguardian.com @organiccarbon.bsky.social @edhawkins.org

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Great to see our paper making the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! With a picture of a long-term experiment in Kenya 🇰🇪 @johansix.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social @mcorbeels.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A reminder that, while some of the damage that Trump & GOP are doing might seems temporary, the damage they're doing to the planet is permanent: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

"Who will protect women and children from Reform (Tory failures) and why would any decent person with morals and integrity support them" via Phil Neate

📄 New publication alert A timely and insightful paper on biostimulants and their regulation has just been released — featuring contributions from our own Thom Kuyper 🔗 Check it out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today. The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers. #ShowYourStripes

The idiocy around Roundup isn't quite as idiotic as the idiocy around vaccines, but it's still super-wrong and super-Trumpy. Rational people need to stop swallowing this pseudoscientific nonsense. Banning Roundup would usher in a new era of much nastier pesticides. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

🌱 New on the EGU SSS blog! We sat down with Katerina Georgiou, winner of the 2025 EGU Outstanding ECS Award SSS, to talk soil carbon, resilience, and how better models can shape climate-smart land management. 👉 Read now on the EGU SSS blog #SoilCarbon #SoilScience #ClimateScience #EGU #ECS

When power becomes the point, something in us begins to erode. History shows it. Scripture names it. "The man lusting for power is always active- the center of the show, relentless, vigilant, restless." -David Brooks, The Atlantic Power that demands attention rarely leaves room for wisdom.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelenskyy: Ending Aid to Ukraine Creates Risk of New War in Europe ❗️ He explained that some security guarantees are directly linked to European institutions, and there is no certainty yet that the sides are close to a final agreement. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/zelenskyy-en...

Ukraine is facing its harshest winter, because russia still wants to subjugate through terror. Yet, what President Zelenskyy said to russia in 2022 on behalf of Ukrainians remains unchanged: “Read our lips: Without you.” But with tools to resist russian terror: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

I am a climate scientist and this is correct. As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open. Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future. Every year, the dry season is becoming longer and more arid. The forest in the south-eastern Amazon has already become a carbon source. By Jonathan Watts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Out today: the GHG Protocol's Land Sector and Removals Standard, the first GHG Protocol Standard to provide GHG accounting requirements & guidance that equip companies with the methods needed to quantify, report, and track land emissions and CO₂ removals. Read more: ghgprotocol.org/blog/land-se...

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Eating healthy food can prolong your life - and it’s also crucial for a healthy planet. Transforming the global food system is just as important as the energy transition if we want a prosperous and equitable future on Earth, writes Johan Rockström in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) EVENT: Public talk by Jim Skea, chair of the IPCC PLACE: University of Reading DATE: 9th Feb, 6.30pm DETAILS: www.reading.ac.uk/events/Feed/...

Despite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries. I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat. Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...

Faith doesn’t just shape what we believe. It shapes who we’re willing to stay in the room with. In a world that sorts us by tribe and preference, the church can still be a place where difference becomes formation. 🎧 Hear Ryan Burge unpack this on the latest episode of the Good Faith podcast.