This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

The total volume of #Arctic sea ice has been at or near record low levels for every day since late October. More graphics of thickness and volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Oh no, it found me...

Worth remembering: The world has been spending more on solar than oil for the last two years.

"The fundamental misunderstanding is that by getting better information and managing financial risk, that the economy will reallocate capital towards solutions," says Columbia Professor Lisa Sachs on the Zero podcast. That's not happening. Here's how to fix it: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Or, from the Chinese perspective, this is what progress looks like

This is what decline looks like. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Important to note that this is self-reported data on social media use, which is not necessarily reliable. Studying this stuff is hard.

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers. 🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There was an awesome project at @csdms.bsky.social about landscape evolution and nuclear waste in upstate NY. Turns out policy and landscape management for centennial-millenial timescales is different.

Safe from a nuclear bomb, but unsafe from fossil fuels.

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"When it was built in the late 1950s the bunker was more than 100 yards from the sea." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Super interesting

This episode was amazing. Listened to it while on a road trip with my son and he is more inspired than ever to become a scientist. I think three separate times we looked at each other and just said "What?! How?!"

This is the epitome of a Radiolab episode, which starts with a small accident in a lab and ends up with questions about consciousness. radiolab.org/podcast/brai...

What a crazy story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4x...

Come for the discussion about possible utopia. Stay for the philosophical inquiry about life's purpose and the choice between abundance (en vogue) and adequacy with @akshatrathi.bsky.social and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Italy won't buy 90% of solar cells available on the market -- because they are made in China or have a link to China -- but the price increase for its solar will only be modest. www.bnef.com/insights/38175

If you think the sun rises from west and the east-risers have made the greatest maljudgement, it doesn't make it so. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Khichdi done right is amazing. "The picture, while still emerging, is of neither a resurrection of the old order nor a construction of a brand-new one. The nascent new order is a mishmash of many ingredients and flavors — rather like the Indian dish of khichdi." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Sunday Night Sunset Glow in Cleveland, Ohio

Would commit felonies just to be arrested by this adorable little thing.

This is great! Eric and Wendy Schmidt make a massive investment in astronomy research. More of this please. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

What scientific advances can be credited to the mind of Musk? Or is it now possible to get a Royal Society fellowship for marketing and investing and managing?

Nobody ever said the death throes of the fossil age would be pretty or peaceful

The White House's withdrawal from 66 different international bodies will come back to hurt the US on climate and other issues, @markgongloff.bsky.social says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"High levels of PFASs lower hatching rates and reduce overall survival rates. In particular, PFASs disrupt hormones and lower fertility rates in male birds ... it’s quite often the case that as one compound is banned there’s another one coming down the line" #PoisonedPlanet #PlanetaryBoundaries

#GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we all need some

🚨 2025 observed the lowest #Arctic sea-ice extent AND the lowest sea-ice volume for their yearly average values. This comes as no surprise to me as the polar environment continues to change. The consequences are far-reaching. More graphics & stats already on my website: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Cook’s cowardice is especially egregious when you remember that, 11 years ago, he famously summoned Travis Kalanick to Cupertino to threaten removing Uber from the app store unless Kalanick stopped breaking Apple’s rules. And it worked!

Last year was obviously the warmest on record for the North Pacific Ocean... This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every year from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

Australia’s Victoria state, which is home to Melbourne, declared a state of disaster as firefighters battled three emergency-level wildfires.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

🧪 #HorseshoeCrab 🩸 We should talk more about how to get pharma companies to use alternatives to the blue blood-derived Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) test for endotoxins. Scorecard from Centre for Biological Diversity shows most companies not even trying biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Something Kim Stanley Robinson advised us all to do: ignore the soap opera. 🎁🔗 to the full conversation: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The claim this fossil fuel wouldn't be subsidized is as stupid as the rest of what Trump says; military protection for exploitation is a huge expense and therefore subsidy that you and I and the people of Venezuela will pay.

Venezuela's oil has a big methane problem, and more climate stories on today's Green Daily

'Appreciate what's coming first, so you are better able to stand fast against it.'

“Amnesty International said in a statement…that it had documented at least 28 protesters killed in the recent days of protest, including children. Three other groups that document and track human rights…put the toll higher, at more than 40.” Gift link

Just did my personal year in review including C02 emissions, interesting to see how petrol dominates but also how much more emissions intensive per $ electricity is. Mainly because Vic still burns brown coal (lignite) for >50% power needs. $2.8k on petrol - 3,578kg CO2 $435 on elec - 1,949kg CO2 🔌💡

1/2 FT: "China’s auto exports will expand by as much as 25 per cent to a record of more than 7mn this year, as carmakers try to offset collapsing domestic sales of petrol cars and slowing electric vehicle growth." www.ft.com/content/5b13...

1/5 NYT: "The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services shrank to $29.4 billion in October, down from $48.1 billion the prior month. The figure was the lowest monthly trade deficit recorded since June 2009." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

Superstition xkcd.com/3191/

We discovered microbes in bark ‘eat’ climate gases. This will change the way we think about trees theconversation.com/we-discovere...