The final EPA ruling revoking its 2009 endangerment finding is posted: www.epa.gov/regulations-... The agency is no longer trying to invoke the discredited DOE climate working group report as justification for the rule change.

ANALYSIS | Trump rolls back the clock again and returns car and power pollution to American skies

My latest for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

A single shark can go through thousands of teeth in their lifetime. Most shark tooth necklaces that I've seen for sale are fossil teeth, from sharks that died millions of years ago. I'm gonna need everyone to do better.

The regime is puffing their chest around this but this is basically my feeling, too.

The important new research by @nckmllx.bsky.social & colleagues about the community-borne costs of data centers is an important complement to this paper that @ngour.bsky.social, @lortizuriarte.bsky.social & I published last week on potential health impacts of data centers.

I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

nationalzoo.si.edu/news/female-... Finally, some good news! ✨

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... @the-independent.com

A beloved Utah national monument is under threat from Republicans

My latest for @the-independent.com details recent threats to the management of Utah's Grand-Staircase-Escalante National Monument: the home to at least 15 dinosaur species found nowhere else on Earth... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

What success looks like (5–10 years) • Fishing mortality aligned with species’ life histories • Species-level reporting becomes the norm • Management completeness rises above critical thresholds • Shark & ray populations stabilize and recover Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9

Uh, and by way - on top of everything else - Earth is in water bankruptcy? unu.edu/inweh/news/w...

One of the higher impact winter storms in several years looks poised to impact the southern half of the country this weekend with serious travel and power issues, along with extreme cold farther north. More about what we know - and what uncertainties still remain and why: tinyurl.com/26ysrvhv

DEMOCRATS PROBE CDC’S DRASTIC CHANGES TO CHILDHOOD VACCINATION SCHEDULE democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-...

There hasn't been a report of a dairy herd infected with #H5N1 #birdflu in the past 30 days. Does that mean there've been no infected herds? Or no reported herds? 🤷‍♀️ Since the virus was first discovered to have moved into cows in spring 2024, there have been 1,086 infected herds in 19 states.

Via #NASABlogs - NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Go for Undocking on Wednesday (today). Coverage starts at 3:00 PM EST on the various NASA Channels www.nasa.gov/blogs/commer...

Trump Admin has now proposed to speed permitting process for large projects, incl oil/gas pipelines & AI facilities, by reducing states’ & tribes’ authority to approve, limit or reject, federal permits for projects that will pollute waterways. insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...

And, here's some lunar surface reactor news from NASA... www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Fourth-warmest year for the US last year per latest NCEI update: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/nationa...

Smithsonian faces a deadline to show Trump its plans for exhibits for America's 250th birthday

"Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025" | Our (Yuying Pan et al) new article in Advances in Atmospheric Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Scientists find ‘record-breaking’ asteroid nearly the size of eight football fields

The U.S. is withdrawing from the framework on climate change

I love getting the local paper. There’s no comments section, I get to donate the papers to the herbarium or the parrot rescue after, and you get gems like today’s front-page story.

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

And, while I’m on this subject: www.ehn.org/soil-tests-r.... www.latimes.com/environment/...

Some folks say deep-sea fish aren’t cute. I dare you to look at this bumpy snailfish and not say “aww.” Try it. I dare you. …and if you can't, you might have a cold, cold dead heart. bioone.org/journals/ich...

No mention from EPA Admin. Zeldin of the multiple times President Trump threatened to withhold any wildfire aid before and during the SoCal fires last year... x.com/epaleezeldin... x.com/epaleezeldin... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w... www.latimes.com/california/s...

A brief hiatus of, uh, nearly two years - ha: medium.com/@theeyeofthe...

And you may know this, but I *love* writing about sharks, the ocean, climate, space and other science: medium.com/the-quantast... I have Medium and Substack accounts that I'm planning on updating soon following a brief hiatus...

Y'all don't know this, but I wrote my Master's thesis on these beauties. We still have so much to learn about chondrichthyes.

NASA Appropriations bill. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... Maybe maybe maybe we will get a space back.

NEW: So China and the U.S. are racing to land on, then develop bases at, the lunar south pole. Why? Because a lot of water's there—and it can be turned into rocket fuel, making the Moon a low-gravity launching pad to send humans to Mars. Me for NatGeo: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

This is cool. "MIT scientists have identified a key condition in the atmosphere that determines how hot and humid a midlatitude region can get, and how intense related storms can become." news.mit.edu/2026/new-res...

This is not just "NCAR boosterism," folks. There are multiple empirical measures by which this is correct--and also, if you took a random sampling of atmospheric & Earth scientists from around the world, I'd bet that a substantial majority of them would agree. NCAR is truly irreplaceable.

Wish we were here

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This Jurassic Park science is now a reality

"Not since the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge."

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Programs included work on reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The rate of sea-level rise along US coast has > doubled over the past 125 years, according to a new analysis of data from scores of tide gages. & it took some serious cherry-picking of data for Trump’s DOE climate report earlier this yr to conclude otherwise. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

HHS told me earlier today that “Secretary Kennedy has been very clear that vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles" and that "any attempts to spin this are baseless." @the-independent.com

I need you all to see this "bizarre, lemon-shaped world" with an atmosphere "unlike any even seen before." www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

We’ve got a piece in The Conversation about the 2025 Arctic Report Card and the implications of 20 years of tracking rapid Arctic change. #Arctic #akwx #Climate theconversation.com/from-record-...

She alleges violations of due process under the Fifth Amendment, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the Administrative Procedure Act, and her rights to freedom of speech under the First Amendment and the Whistleblower Protection Act. Full complaint: katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...