Redwing Blackbirds love a good marsh (audio on)

New logo and preview of new website is live. Looking forward to great things.

"the historic model of compensating for declining river flows through expanded groundwater pumping is no longer legally or physically sustainable" elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/the-rio-gr... #ClimateCrisis #RioGrande

Played with this a bit. Here's an adjusted map, and a KMZ version

Latest Future States newsletter: Shovel Ready Policy! (is it though?!?), or the swimming pool through the garden hose problem, and lots of great recent events and scholarship on improving delivery. Plus: state capacity summer camp! Featuring @mazzucatom.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

[cx] Having spent my formative years in labs, I saw PROJECT HAIL MARY and did a full-body wince at seeing two samples loaded into a centrifuge side-by-side, instead of across from each other and balanced. I do love that the good folks at NIST are On It. www.nist.gov/blogs/taking...

yeah, we accidentally broke the news on it starting to go last month when we noticed that, and then I dug into the tariff a bit www.gridstatus.io/insights/414...

'Aqua Chroma' A meditative slow gaze at Earth's atmosphere, revealing the hidden depths of activity in the water-filled skies of planet Earth. 4K HDR 36m20s youtu.be/F2jsuJPU0Lo

While chatting with some friends, it occurred to me that other people could benefit from a summary understanding of what's going on in the oil and gas markets. Here are some little pictures to give you the big picture. 🧵

my latest at GGWash does something never before done on the blog: discussing the history of land use along the Chesapeake Bay while linking out to a 35 minute Phish jam

In other words, this landslide tsunami was ENORMOUS. Here is a simulation, coupled with a drone video.

California’s batteries are covering a larger share of peak evening grid demand, supplying up to 40% of energy needs. That shift has helped solar (the cheapest source on the market) power more households and businesses even after the sun goes down. tinyurl.com/49h5hkvj/ via @insideclimatenews.org 🔌💡

So much of the new build in the US is still across the Sunbelt which already was relying on heat pump heating outside of cities. If this makes sense in Denver it goes triple for Nashville, Austin, Atlanta, and Raleigh.

Post your favorite proposed infill stations

FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️

Why is #Antarctica temporarily gaining mass... And why it isn't necessarily good news.. www.esa.int/Applications...

The amount of important completed research combined with a incredibly slow response means that indoor air quality is an area with tremendous amount of ripe low-hanging fruit. Sure, research the ongoing hard issues, but there are so many simple solutions to tackle the first 80% of the problem.

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

A wild thread: 490 million years ago, the seafloor which would become the city of Baltimore was a serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vent complex. Those vents laid the ultramafic structures that would, in 1812, be discovered as America's first chromite mine.

At least we know what we shouldn't do with the paper afterwards.

USGS really missing out on the opportunity of using a color scheme with blue green colors flashing.

The Chesapeake as defined by ship traffic.

The rapid unchecked buildout of data centers along the Potomac River threatens drinking water while a historic sewage spill raises alarms about aging infrastructure. 🗣️ #SpeakUp for the future of the Potomac today: act.americanrivers.org/page/96622/a...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social. The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2

Economists: If only people understood carbon taxes better, maybe they would like them more Reminds me of the period in climate science where we thought education about the science would change the politics of the problem. www.nber.org/papers/w3507...

We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA. This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event. A thread looking at some of the numbers. 🧵

For the launch of our new Electricity Price Hub, I wrote about why rates and bills are not the same. We talk a lot about why rates are higher in some places than others. But some places (i.e. the South) have low rates and high bills, and demand different policy fixes heatmap.news/energy/elect...

touched on that a bit about a year ago blog.gridstatus.io/byte-blackou...

On the "what radicalized you" pile, I present PJM from yesterday: www.gridstatus.io/charts/fuel-... (Using🔬to look for storage)

If we stop testing it will be gone by Easter. If we stop measuring ice it will still be there. If we stop caring the pain wasn't real. If we look away we can pretend all is fair.

The control room of the NS Savannah (a decommissioned nuclear civilian demonstration ship) shows this same pattern, with use of red, orange, and yellow on a seafoam background. That logo is amazing. Image from virtual tour at: maritime.org/tour/savannah/

It's all fine.

"...the IAEA can confirm that a structure 350 metres from the Bushehr NPP reactor was hit and destroyed" world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ira...

PA is a leader among U.S. states boosting river health and safety by removing outdated dams. Our Director of River Restoration, Jessie Thomas-Blate, dives into the various reasons why a dam may be removed for the benefit of people and wildlife: app.publicnewsservice.org/story/pa-rem...

A lot of America’s smaller historic downtowns weren’t always just suburban communities or lifestyle amenities; they really were, and functioned as, cities. They were little miniature versions of the big cities.

I'll just note that some of the proposed regulatory changes explicitly overturn congressional language that put them in place (worker safety as one). Whether or not executive branch lawyers ignore that (and courts uphold it and congress looks away) remains to be seen.

For when the records you are breaking isn't just the temperature but the "years in a row you are breaking the record"

✨📊 Aerial Glacier Photographs A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40 years with a 63-pound WW II surveillance camera. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/aerial-glacier-photographs

Wow indeed! Coming to PBS on April 1.

Will put to the test that Montgomery County could kill a transit-oriented affordable housing opportunity at a Saks Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters.

Speaks to push and pull of variable granularity vs. predictable regularity. Photo has adaptive re-use of a what was once a rail-served flour mill on the left as a arts center and a tear down of former tannery buildings and electric street car barns on the right for a new hotel.

To mark International Women's Day, meet Lt Cmdr. Madeleine Barclay. First Officer on HMS Fidelity. To my knowledge, the first woman to officially serve as First Officer on a Royal Navy vessel deployed on combat duty. Achieving this involved a three-way war between Navy, SOE and the WRNS /1 🧵 #IWD

Imagine being a RETVRN guy about soulless mass produced playground equipment instead of the vastly more interesting, creative, whimsical, and dangerous work of Bob Leathers. Could NOT be me.

Lots of chatter about infrastructure around the Persian Gulf (refineries, desalination plants, terminals) that could indirectly affect a lot of people. Just going to mention two sites out there because escalation has *not* gone this far. Yet. Bushehr and Barrakah Nuclear Power Plants. (1/n)

This evolution of the stores also speaks to a century of changing retail scales. The center point started as a grocery store (Sanitary) but eventually was a local drug store (Peoples). Mergers and footprint growth meant neither could fit there, now restaurants in a post-online retail world.

Having watched him play in person a few times over the previous couple of years, this one still hurts.

An absolutely massive Civilian Climate Corps. On the scale of the DHS expansion, but boots on the ground climate workers doing community vulnerability assessments and infrastructure work. Take all the Big Trump Tax and put it into FEMA.

What a difference a year makes! In mid-February 2025, northeastern Morocco was affected by severe drought. One year later and after 2 months of rain, these Copernicus Sentinel-3 images show that the region has been transformed into an expanse of green vegetation.