Pawpaw season is upon us. You may have heard of pawpaws, but many locals still know little about the “tropical” fruit that grows wild in some wooded areas in the DC region.

National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"The community wanted a food sovereignty lab. But we didn’t know what that was.” My latest for @highcountrynews.org

There really is no one better at this than @ayanaeliza.bsky.social, a climate hero if there ever was one

A preview of cool emerging #genomics and #Indigenous #science media… but this is my second interview of the day in this blue blazer! 🎥

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We've extended the application deadline for this award to 9/17! Apply here for the Fall Meeting AGU-B DEI Travel Grant for up to $1500 ( connect.agu.org/biogeoscienc...)

Are you a cool person who cannot stop talking about natural catastrophes? Do you want to help the insurance industry understand the latest hurricane, wildfire, or hailstorm headed their way? Then click the link for our new Head of Event Response job! careers.wtwco.com/jobs/head-of...

How can YOU help fix the climate crisis? This new guide I researched and created with support from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social will help you find & flex your climate superpowers: 👩‍⚖️ Citizen 💼 Professional 💵 Investor ✈️ Consumer 🌟 Role Model Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!

This was a splendid program. It remains accessible on various platforms. Highly recommended.

I know there's a lot of news rn but @eroston.bsky.social, @zhirji.bsky.social and I wrote a full accounting of the Trump administration's war on climate science and clean energy. Putting it all in one place was a lot!

Since last May, 4 billion people—half the world’s population—have experienced an extra month of extreme heat, thanks to climate change. buff.ly/Ug5MGyo Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025

I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.

💡 New this year, Local Hubs offer a flexible way to participate in the Annual Meeting without traveling to the main event. Groups can gather in their own regions, access #AGU25 programming, and register at a special rate. Learn more about how to host a Local Hub today: buff.ly/JLvmh71

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Heyo climate + outdoorsy folks! I’m about to embark on a big reporting project & I’d love for you to follow along. I’ll be riding my mtn bike across the entire state on the 850-mile Arizona Trail. I’ll try to post here too but more updates & info can be found on IG @joan_bikes_arizona Thank you!

This looks like a great opportunity in a great location!

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

SCOR is pleased to invite early-career scientists in Colombia to participate in a symposium on 28 October, which will precede SCOR's annual meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia. View the programme and apply to present a poster at: scor-int.org/events/scor-...

An estimated 450,000 people have died because of the abrupt cuts to the United States Agency for International Development. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean basin was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean for 640,000 years, during which time the Mediterranean became hypersaline and shrank . Enter the Zanclean megaflood, which abruptly and dramatically reconnected the seas. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Read what @drshepherd2013.bsky.social had to say about us in @Forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... Be sure to check out more about our initiative here: donorbox.org/climate-us-p...

In July, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins released a memo previewing the Trump admin’s plan to “reorganize” the USDA and “relocate” most of the staff. Here's how these moves would further disrupt the services farmers and consumers depend on while undermining the USDA's scientific capacity.

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August 2025 SW Climate Podcast - At Wits End We are over two-thirds of the way through this year’s monsoon and in this month’s Southwest Climate Podcast hosts Zack Guido and Mike Crimmins have a bit of a therapy session. Listen Here: climas.arizona.edu/podcast/augu...

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

A new PNAS Special Feature combines speciation genomics and conservation biology to address habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. The articles explore how monitoring and restoring gene flow can support resilient ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Learn more: www.pnas.org/topic/574.

Some 4.3 million observations of butterflies show that 59 of 136 species have declined in abundance over the past three decades, while no species has increased in abundance. Butterfly declines undoubtedly have large ecological consequences. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reflecting on the career of paleoecologist Margaret Davis. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Really re-energized and inspired after the CA 30x30 Summit in San Diego! Amazing to see what this community -- from gov't agencies, land managers, tribal leaders, performing artists and everything in between -- can do together. sites.google.com/view/2025-30...

Many LLMs can’t recognize African languages because of a lack of training data. But researchers across Africa are changing that. Language specialists have recorded 9,000 hours of people speaking 18 African languages and transformed the recordings into digitized language data sets.

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We are hiring! Join us as an Assistant Professor of Physical Climate Science. Apply by Sep. 29th here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084 Help us spread the word!

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪

These days, climate action isn’t optional. Together, I believe we can make it unavoidable. From carbon-trapping trees to threats to U.S. climate science, here’s this week’s Talking Climate snapshot.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

“The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate” | Article by @dananuccitelli.bsky.social for @climateconnections.bsky.social: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/the-...

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...

For my latest newsletter, I wrote about how the US government has taken down authoritative climate reports, while posting an "assessment" that experts describe as more like a blog post full of cherry-picked details. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

This paper is getting attention for suggesting ecosystem restoration won't help with mitigation, but restoration is still *critical* for adaptation. Restoring coastal wetlands helps reduce risks from sea level rise and hurricanes, restoring urban forests helps reduce risks from extreme heat, etc...

Estamos en la etapa final de las elecciones 🗳️ ten en cuenta esta informacion sobre las votaciones! 💜

📣We are in the last stage of the elections 🗳️ keep in mind this information about the voting process! 💜