The Path to Peace between #India and #Pakistan goes through Washington open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Someone needs to analyze the amount of extra fossil fuel being expended due to suboptimal flight reroutings due to war in Ukraine for 4 years and now the conflict in Iran cc: @katharinehayhoe.com

#Overheard - Trader Joe’s is the perfect store for the over-educated but underpaid consumer 🤭

🧵 I recently spoke with Taylor Owen @theglobeandmail.com Machines Like Us podcast about an urgent question: How do you make a technology safe when the political will to govern it has evaporated? And what happens if we don't? www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/mac...

Great to receive a complementary copy of this commemorative book from one of my alma maters @yaleenvironment.bsky.social - thanks to the amazing Dean Indy Burke

Suggested speech text that I was asked to write on #climatesecurity for delivery by the Prime Minister of #Pakistan at the Munich Security Conference but his panel got cancelled for unknown reasons at last minute cc: @katharinehayhoe.com open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Ultimately, South Asia as a region, needs to embrace narratives of #peace rather than languishing in divisive diatribes of the past. #Bangladesh #Pakistan open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Discussion on the tradeoffs inherent in the #cleanenergy transition on this #podcast www.case4conservation.com/post/63-what...

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c... #LawSky

As the sordid #EpsteinFiles are finally released let us consider the broader value of conspiracy theories open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Revisiting my article on THE DIVERSITY DILEMMA IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES from 2021 - as there has been some judicial movement on cases emanating from executive orders. We are still going to face tough questions in academia @katharinehayhoe.com saleemhali.medium.com/the-diversit...

Surprising good news: "The nation’s public fast-charging network expanded by 30% over the course of 2025...Reliability scores, which Paren measures as the share of charging sessions that are successfully completed, ticked up in 2025 too, averaging 93%." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...

“Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops.” Albert Einstein

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. — Michael Crichton

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Nobel laureate Richard Feynman on religious OR scientific orthodoxy and groupthink

America’s strength Comes from such amazing stories - a 21 year old Pakistani-American wins an election in small town Georgia www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

thank you, Dr West! #gischat

Thanks to TIME for quoting me in this article on #Greenland time.com/7344877/trum...

Refreshing to hear the CEO of Brazilian mining giant Vale focusing on circular economy of metals in his presentation at Future Mining forum in Riyadh noting that now 10% of company’s production now comes from reprocessing old waste piles

Attending the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh Saudi Arabia where the U.S. delegation is in full force / sadly in the shadow of saber rattling over Greenland

One of our doctoral students just defended her dissertation on a social history of GIS from ESRI to Google. In reviewing it, I found this fascinating oral history of ESRI chief scientist @deepseadawn.bsky.social on the OSU site. Inspiring ! scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/oh150/wright...

A New Era of US Mineral #Mining Must Put Communities First www.wri.org/insights/us-...

Help small-scale gold miners to transition away from mercury use - our correspondence for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important quote at the end of a dismal year for the world

America’s new #Greenland envoy and mineral security - my thoughts on this latest provocation from Trump www.linkedin.com/pulse/americ...

We have all become digital drug addicts due to quantity, availability, potency and novelty of products and the smart phone is akin to the hypodermic needle of yesteryears - Dr. Anna Lembke @hiddenbrain.bsky.social

As we prepare for #UNEA7 to begin on Monday, pleased to meet Dr. Joyelle Trizia Clarke, St. Kitts & Nevis Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate. Very much appreciate the Minister's work as Rapporteur to the #UNEA7 Bureau and the growing partnership between 🇰🇳 and @unep.org.

Fascinating article defining and mapping river drainage systems on Mars, where #water used to flow. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Greening of Shipping is a complicated matter but we had good progress at #cop30 to discuss these issues www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

Happy Geography Awareness Week!!! #geogsky #geogchat 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️

The Mineral Supply for "Smart Cities" - Resourcing a more sustainable "techno-urban" transition. Video of a lecture I gave some years ago at alma mater @yaleenvironment.bsky.social and just found online www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMO...

Great comments by @ingerandersen.bsky.social regarding the complexity of climate linkages with conflicts in Sudan and Syria - #Video from #COP30

Great to hear in person @gavinnewsom.bsky.social give this impressive speech at #Cop30 yesterday highlighting the bipartisan history of environmental action and California leadership against all odds cc: @petergleick.bsky.social @deepseadawn.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

A new Nature Communications study indicates even if all other sectors went #net-zero today, emissions from construction alone would still push the world beyond the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C target by 2050 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Such a pleasure to host @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social for the annual #Mather lecture at @udelaware.bsky.social

Pleased to report that my book on #Sustainability with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social is now available as an #audiobook - available on most audio platforms like Spotify and also Audible cc: @katharinehayhoe.com www.amazon.com/Sustainabili...

Among the many extraordinary UNESCO World Heritage sites I have visited in travels to 174 member states of the United Nations, The Pothala Palace stands out as singularly monumental in its setting, ambition and transcendence

What the 2025 economics #NobelPrize reveals about the way nature and science need to be internalized in our assessment of #innovation and growth - my thoughts for @forbes.com cc: @pkrugman.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

For Star Trek fans this one is for you www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

My thoughts on the new book by Malala Yousafzai and how to connect it to broader conversations on diversity, migration and sustainability - might interest @jenbiddle.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

“Key to success in transformative change is identifying the underlying causes” - Arun Agrawal at @notredame.bsky.social sustainability conference

“Road to philanthropic hell was paved with “pilot projects.” - Jim Leape at NSS meeting

“Politics is downstream of culture than policy is downstream of power” - David Beckman / Pisces foundation at @notredame.bsky.social conference

“I do not seek infinite growth but I do seek improvement in quality of life - shift from quantity to quality is what matters.” Chris Boone - dean of @uscprice.bsky.social at the National Sustainability Society conference at @notredame.bsky.social cc: @geodgb.bsky.social

In past 7 years we have extracted more materials from earth than past 100 years prior. Very concerning trend - noted at #Zerowaste forum

🌎On the doorstep of the Amazon, this year's #COP30 is taking place where the pressures of development and deforestation collide. But it can inspire the courage and cooperation the future demands. See why this location matters. Find out more → go.wri.org/cop30

Such a pleasure moderating the panel with Jeff Sachs at the Global Zero Waste Forum in Istanbul today

Arrived in #Istanbul for #Zerowaste forum - lots of good publicity about the waste problem but #TurkishAirlines needs to recycle better and stop using so many disposable items and accessories on their planes!! ✈️🍀good news that they are using more biofuels

IUCN launches Nature-based Education Facility with $10 million in-kind contribution from Esri iucncongress2025.org/programme/iu...