Effective strategies for climate change adaptation in coastal areas are urgently needed

When scientists compared what California #sealions eat in the US and Mexico, they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in California but shrinking in Mexico. Instead, they found something more complicated. @ubcmarinemammal ecomagazine.com/news/researc...

‘If #women are given a platform, there is much that they can do’: Women’s vital roles in #fisheries and #aquaculture are gaining recognition as new programs in Indonesia and Zambia drive inclusion and equality www.globalseafood.org/advocate/clo... via @GSA_Seafood

NOAA can no longer afford timely and accurate tsunami warnings in Alaska thanks to budget cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Climate change is increasing the risk of bird flu for marine mammals

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

New study on the last glaciation shows the Gulf Stream is likely more resilient to climate change than expected but melting North American ice sheets drove rapid sea level rise

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy. Thursday, November 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.

EUROPE EXCEPTIONAL NOVEMBER WARMTH An extraordinary warm spell is affecting all North Africa and Europe,only excluding Italy. 42C in Mauritania, 39 Algeria,>25 in the Balkans (mins up to 19C). Next days hundreds of records with up to 34C in Turkey.

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Not reporting is not going to make climate change imapcts go away

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

🌎 ¡Thriving Earth Exchange en la #RAUGM2025! Esta semana, Marina Cox, coordinadora de proyectos hispanohablantes, participa en la Reunión Anual de la Unión Geofísica Mexicana 🇲🇽. 🗓️ Miércoles | 10:30 a. m. ET 🔗 lite.spr.ly/6003M2lR #CienciaComunitaria #AGU

The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines. - Rolling back access - Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness - Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms - Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising #sea levels – life on the #climate-change frontline theconversation.com/thai-village... via @us.theconversation.com

“Through the first six months of this year, disasters across the United States caused more than $100 billion in damage, the most expensive start to any year on record, it found. Fourteen disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage through the first half of the year, the researchers found.”

Great news that @climatecentral.org has resurrected @noaa.gov’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database after the Trump administration axed it!

Pacific harbor #seals vanishing from Baja California waters, study finds mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pacific... via @MexicoNewsDaily

Canadian #ocean research is among the scientific fields that could be vulnerable to foreign e#spionage, theft or misuse because people overlook its value to adversaries, says a report commissioned by the federal government. cheknews.ca/canadas-scie... via @cheknews.ca

Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government. Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:

As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

Latest from the dumpster fire that is the USA ... Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not surprisingly, the guy that heads the federal agency that's been issuing "stop work" orders against permitted offshore wind projects appears to be heavily conflicted, with ties to the oil and gas industries: www.eenews.net/articles/hou...

🚨Measles is spreading in U.S. In 2025, there have been 1,563 measles cases in 41 states. This is nearly a 450% increase compared to 2024. Almost all cases are in unvaccinated people. This is highest incidence of measles in more than 20 yrs. Measles rapidly spreads when vaccine coverage slips. 1/2 🧵

Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Their data tells a clear story. The ice is forming later, melting earlier and getting thinner each year, and the snow cover is lighter. What was once a glacier 17 years ago has melted into the sea. As the ice disappears, more heat gets absorbed by the dark fjord water, contributing to warming”

Studies have shown that marine heat waves are being made worse and more frequent by global warming, says Dr. William Cheung ( @ubccoru.bsky.social; @solvingfcb.org ). @science.ubc.cahttps://www.cbc.ca/news/science/heat-wave-climate-change-pacific-blob-1.7652755 via @cbcnews.ca

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

“The goal seems to be to remove the expertise and the experience necessary to implement our federal environmental protection laws, and so as long as there are people there who know how to do that, I think the goal is to strip that out as much as possible."

The #ClimateCrisis is a global challenge that no nation can tackle in isolation. #ClimateAction is urgently needed. It’s time for countries to step up their efforts to curb the looming climate emergency: www.unep.org/topics/clima...

"President Trump and his administration continue to spew lies and disinformation about climate science(...) Climate change is here, it's costly, and people need real solutions, not propaganda designed to boost the profits of fossil fuel polluters," said UCS's Rachel Cleetus.

Let's look at the DATA! Not opinion, ideology, or politics. DATA and science. Climate change is not a hoax and the impacts are dire, costly and increasing. We have solutions to stem rising temperatures. We need investment, science-based policies and action 🧪🌎 climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...

Climate change action without the now irrelevant US. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Two boats were rammed by a pod of young #orcas recently off the coast of Portugal. One of the boats sank. Experts say it was play behaviour, but the #whales caused quite the fright. www.cbc.ca/player/play/... via @cbcnews.ca

Shifting baseline syndrome

RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.

BAM! From my colleague @joshettinger.bsky.social: I hope our research encourages policy officials to be braver and pursue more ambitious climate policies. They have more public support than they may realise.”

"We lost our corn crops and livestock. But what haunts us is the fear, God forbid, if it rains again." The climate crisis isn't just about the fires and floods but the lingering fear, uncertainty and trauma experienced. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

One of the most important things healthcare systems across America can do to protect patients, and the workforce that attends to them this winter is to ensure #Covid vaccines are available to healthcare workers. That includes clinics, hospitals,and nursing homes.

“The grim reality is that the effects of this mass exodus are likely to reverberate in every corner of our nation's public health infrastructure and across every specialty in medicine. The evisceration of the CDC is a disaster for all of us.”

Scientists who speak up against #misinformation and intimidation deserve our support—not threats. We must stand behind those who courageously defend evidence and public trust. Read more on protecting scientific integrity. www.americanscientist.org/article/supp... 🧪

Two autistic adults/parents of autistic kids "advise you to relax. There is no 'epidemic of autism.' Instead, what we face is an epidemic of need. The main reason we are finding more autism is simple: Clinicians are getting better at spotting what was always there." www.statnews.com/2023/03/23/a...

The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now. Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.

The article said it: “More drought and extreme heat, forest fires are starting earlier in the year.” But it never used the words #climatechange. Attribution studies show January fires are now 35% more likely in our warmed world. That’s the missing connection.

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Back in 2015, various meteorological modelling exercises for 2050 produced extreme heat #climate scenarios like the below. Except this isn’t a model, it’s today’s temperature chart for southern France & the Iberian Peninsula.

A good time to re-up this article from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Plastic is often seen as a cheap material but scientists in The Lancet argue it is expensive when including damage to health One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...