Geographers, If you our headed to #AAG2026, consider our CFP: "Surfaces and Subsurfaces as Spaces of Climate Action" organized by Chris Knudson, Gabby Subia Smith + me. Please share. docs.google.com/document/d/1... @cape-aag.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

New paper! On the precarious labor at the end of the solar commodity chain, and the production of value from solar waste in India. Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India. ☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...

Crossing a New York City street and almost bumped right into @davidho.bsky.social on a City Bike. Climate Week is so much fun!

I got this sent to me from a Pascua Yaqui undergraduate student in Tucson who is in a soils class this semester. She said it was so meaningful to see not only women but someone from her tribe up there. I just about cried. This work matters. We matter ❤️🤍💙

Check out our team’s new paper about reducing nitrogen losses in US row-crop agriculture, by @mikebadzmierowski.bsky.social. Nitrogen is essential for crop production, but its overuse reduces air and water quality and emits potent GHGs. This paper examines solutions. www.wri.org/research/red...

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

My dad just took this photo in Acadia National Park

Is Carbon Capture the Same as #CarbonRemoval? 🏭 We answer this and other #FAQs about Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration 👉 bit.ly/3QIWpWl

Trump abduction vehicle disguised as a soccer mom minivan on the DC streets, including "Future Jedi On Board" sticker #bigballsgoonshow

New peer-reviewed paper documents massive lobbying by big oil & gas over 20 yrs to promote carbon, capture & storage, spending almost $1 Billion. CCS is a scam. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Am I standing in front of the future, or the past? Given the amount of regressive climate and environmental policies, and pro fossil fuel incentives we’re seeing before us, I honestly don’t know.

Seriously, what the hell is going on?

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

This paper was accepted for publication in Geo: Geography and Environment this morning 🎉, but you can read it NOW as a preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

There are images like this all over … Havana, Cuba. Banners of Castros face and militarized policy around the city.

Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable. Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them? These researchers say YES. Read more:

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.

By Derric Pennington

In my free time (haha jk that doesn't exist) I think up topics for #AAG2026 sessions. Today's session that I think could be fun and interesting: "Surfaces and subsurfaces as spaces of climate action." Send me your soil CDR, your geological carbon storage, your geographies of geothermal!...

Let's talk university Futures institutes. - Do you know of one? - What do they do well? - What do they overlook? - What do you think they should/could include?

Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

holy hell. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"25 University of Colorado Boulder researchers have been laid due to a lack of funding for research projects. The laid-off employees worked for CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences" www.dailycamera.com/2025/08/10/c...

I just learned this article I wrote in about 3 hours has been read 50,000 times. Compare that to a research article that takes months to write and even longer ot get through peer review to be read by a few hundred people. Not sure what to make of it, but it all feels upside down. 🙃

Imagine persuading 5% of students who took the #AP Human Geography exam to major in geography? To thrive, #geography needs to grow its base of undergraduate majors. @williamgmoseley.bsky.social shares a recipe for the discipline to contribute to a better understanding of the world. buff.ly/3Mx5R8m

Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem

🌊 🌎 👇 🚨 Check out my latest in on the World Court ruling on climate justice. Small island and developing nations will have legal standing to make claims for climate reparations, but how that will play out in courts is less clear. Have a read and let me know what you think!

You always have and always will.

Check it out! New video on safe and just Earth System boundaries, inspired by our work with the Earth Commission and based on our 2023 Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_r...

Lots of bad news out there but I feel infinitely lucky for these little toes

New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)

i haven't said much about it recently but, in case you were wondering, the experience of being an nsf center director right now is still an unspeakable horror beyond anything i could have possibly imagined 👍

Postdoc Job: Just Transition. Come work with Amanda Tattersall and me at USYD, along with Jonathan Pickering and Madeline Taylor, on a 2-year project examining issues of justice and community benefit in transmission line regs, planning, siting. Info here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Hey Geographers and friends- what are you thinking for #AAG2025? It's such a weird time to be a geographer, I'm curious if folks are going to push the envelope and come up with bold, creative session ideas. I'm curious to hear! @cape-aag.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Dan Reifsnyder said that Americans concerned about climate change need to prepare for what comes after Trump. “He will eventually leave. And at that point we have an opportunity to remake, to redo, to reset,” Reifsnyder said. “How can we repair the damage, and how can we set a new agenda?”

If you work in science, please tell the people you work with you are grateful for them. Science is a team effort and too often people are snippy and short, but we couldn't discover or advance anything without one another. And we all know we could make more in the private sector. So, thanks!

As we confront recurring floods & fires, it's time to rethink risk. "Privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis...And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities." 360info.org/burned-out-h...

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

America First filed a federal civil rights complaint against Colorado State University, alleging that its diversity, equity and inclusion programs are discriminatory and violate federal law. It was filed by the law firm founded by Stephen Miller www.coloradoan.com/story/news/e...

New in Nature- How will AI impact literature reviews? I say, while AI can be a helpful tool in some areas, we still need deep knowledge and discursive understanding to build string arguments that are dynamic and insightful and ACCURATE. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Minimum tax rates on ultra high net worth individuals (wealth tax), and on multinational corporates (corporate income tax) are two wings of the same movement to minimise the ability of powerful actors to opt their revenues out of the social contracts of the societies that help generate the wealth.

Yes

Democrats own the gang violence in Aurora, Colorado. Here's our interview with the city's Republican mayor.

I know there's almost not even any point anymore to trying to convince people not to keep doing free labour for Elon Musk, but I will never stop being astonished that so so so so so many people (particularly lefties) just cannot convince themselves to even slightly stop helping the guy

Our new paper shows that soil cation exchange can delay CO₂ removal from enhanced weathering by years to decades. Lag varies by soil, climate, and land use—longest in high-CEC regions like the Corn Belt. Big implications for MRV, credit timing, and deployment strategy. Timing matters! 🪨🌾 Link below.

I love having a family but wow would I be a more productive academic if I could read more — and basically have more solo time in the day. Dig into Agamben at 7pm? Yes, please. Status- trying the best I can!

I wasn’t in Exeter this week, but I am a co-author of the Tipping Points Report and co-sign this.

Just to be perfectly clear. We are witnessing, in real time, the collapse of civilization. It's pretty f&%king horrible, even for a doomer who knew this was coming eventually, I've got to say. Pretty f&%king horrible.