We got visitors at our campsite last night

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Warm-to-hot spring temps, with both daytime and nighttime conditions much warmer than mid-May averages, will redevelop over the next few days across most of the U.S. West under fairly strong ridging. This will be notable, though generally not record-breaking, early season heat.

I'm a climate expert. I know 1000s of climate experts. One fact we all know: poor people care about climate more than rich people. Hardly surprising when you can't afford AC, work outside, etc. A few issues in the article... /1

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

of whatever gender because who cares

Oh my God, this is disastrous. Biographic absorbed Hakai Magazine after *their* Canadian-based backers completely cut support. Good science journalism is needed more than ever, but without philanthropies willing to step up and break free from their self-imposed 5% rule, all of us will collapse.

In Amsterdam this is how you know your neighbours are having a party

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

Happy 100th birthday Sir David. You have fundamentally changed how we all see and think about the natural world. A remarkable legacy. Thank you.

I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts! www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp... (1/N)

Worth noting that this *never* used to happen and now it's normal. sahanjournal.com/climate-envi...

The strong focus on regular people doing community care in MN meant that our logistics were on point and contributed to an atmosphere that was largely pretty unfriendly to clout chasing, co-option, and macho bullshit. This was extremely refreshing and we all should do more of it

Just logged into Signal for the first time in two weeks

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

for years environmentally aware people have been talking about how bad US farming practices are for water and birds and so on and jfc this is quite the monkey paw solution to those issues

This is not a good thing

my own // personal // Enron

Did you know ☔️water is most deadly & dangerous part of severe storms, not tornadoes? In the last 10 yrs, flooding kills 2x more than tornadoes. Only 📏1 foot of water can sweep away your car!! Don’t fall for these common myths & make sure your 📲emergency alerts are turned ON!

i find the project to put a price on the hit to investment portfolios from an AMOC collapse so wild and it's bizarrely a trend, like this is clearly a financial sector ask info.jupiterintel.com/amocreport

oh your eminence! i didn’t know you’d be stopping by today.

We've lost 15% of the Amazon rainforest. If we lose >7% more, it could suffer mass dieback at >1.5°C warming, which we'll likely reach by 2030 www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Some folks are (purportedly) continually surprised that pretty much anywhere that people live is warming faster than the global mean. It's not that tricky, since we mostly don't live in the ocean.

My guy...

What we lose when the Forest Service is decimated. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/c...

OH, BLESS THE LOON! FEAR THE LOON!

The running 12-month average temperature for the Contiguous U.S. continues to be the highest on record. 🔥🔥🔥

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

This is a real bird that exists.

"This is the part that will forever haunt me. If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know."

Three months since I was in the New York Times blaming the Upper Basin states for refusing to budge: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

Yes, there is still a relatively wide range of potential outcomes later this year. But the odds of a strong or very strong El Niño event by autumn/winter are already *much* higher than baseline and have continued to increase with each predictive model update cycle.

A river of fog flows and fades in Oregon. Beautiful visible satellite imagery, today from GOES-18.

thank u mr stu for sharing our truth [near out of control rage]

I took the canoe out yesterday for the first time this season, and it was the PERFECT evening on the water.

Minneapolis, where Minnehaha Creek flows into Lake Haiwatha, with downtown peeking over the trees

I listened to Kelly's conversation with Rebecca Solnit and I recommend it. I was particularly struck with what Solnit says here: truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

May Day in Minneapolis always feels like a reward for surviving a Minnesota winter. This year is different. We survived a winter when the federal government sent an occupying force, kidnapped our neighbors, and spent months trying to destroy our community. We’re still here. ❤️

We’re essentially going to move to a system of all-red states and all-blue states that feels like a Union and a Confederacy

Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is a reminder: this risk is not limited to fire zones — it’s a national health issue. Research from #ClimateCentral shows that: 🔥 Exposure is 4x higher than in the late 2000s 🔥 164K U.S. deaths linked to smoke (with about 15K tied to climate change)

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

Absolutely. I feel old as hell, and I've earned it lol

Was talking with my similarly-aged barber today about how much we enjoy old guy shit like sitting in a recliner or watching a sports game while standing up in the middle of the living room. Just steer into the skid, folks. Don't fight to stay young, embrace being old.

The Nov-Apr 2025-26 was the warmest Nov-Apr on record (since 1895-96). A very large portion of the western U.S. had their single warmest Nov-Apr compared to all other Nov-Apr periods. 🔥🔥🔥

There is lots of chatter about the forecast development of a strong #ElNiño. Models are in very good agreement on that. But the consensus is an "average" strong El Niño, not historic. RONI values: bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/roni/ ENSO forecasts: iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis... [1/3]

Map showing where March 2026 was warmer than April 2026 according to Prism climate data.