In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth." www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...

And this contributes to why many in rural California are opposed to mandates for heat pumps, induction stoves, and EVs. If you have an unreliable grid electrification seems like a bad idea.

Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers go.nature.com/4hNDvuN

Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Geographies, preferably with a focus on Human–Environment Relationships. Read more 👉 www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

One week to go before review begins! U Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography. "We seek a dynamic scholar with research and teaching interests that engage with current issues in environmental justice, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability."

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...

"The researchers explain that the current uncritical adoption of AI at the top level of universities actually is counter to what most students and staff want."

Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire

I’m sure this will be fine…🙄

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

Dr. Julie Edwards (@julieedtree.bsky.social) leads a new paper showing that high-resolution cellular-scale measurements (Quantitative Wood Anatomy) yield better temperature signals in Alaskan tree rings than even conventional MXD across all frequencies agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Building Community Power - our new report looks at community benefits agreements, intended to increase social acceptance. Read about California and New York’s programs to approve renewables and energy storage projects at the state level with community support. climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

it is very sad to see science infrastructure that was just abandoned. Easy to get $$ to install but no $$ to maintain or de-mob.

New paper! 🎉 Abandoned mines aren't just leaching trace metals, they're also releasing REEs with systematic diel cycling. Our wetland study revealed distinct light-driven patterns for different REEs. Understanding these processes matters for both ecological risk assessment & remediation planning. 🧪⚒️

No wonder business leaders don’t want to do anything about climate change. There is money to be made rebuilding after disaster.

Court document reveals that the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area would be cut severely, and maybe entirely, along with critical natural resource management staff. This would be devastating for our public lands!

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

You may not believe in climate change, but the insurance industry does.

“The North is calling on you to see us”… www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Oh no! This is very sad news. Jay Quade was a fantastic scientist and an amazing person. I have fond memories of taking classes from him during grad school.

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Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

Greenland ice platinum spike - volcano or meteorite? ⚒️🧪☄️🌋 theconversation.com/a-volcano-or...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

On second though let’s not go to Portland, it is a silly place.

My heart goes out to my federal colleagues who work so hard and are committed to their mission.

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

You know you are in for a bad week when outlook gives you this warning....

The University: We need to become leaders in climate and sustainability and there is an urgent need to develop climate science courses. Me: Our department has climate in the name and we already offer courses on climate science at every level. The University: Who invited you to this meeting?

🌊 New study overturns the “permanent El Niño” idea for the warm Pliocene Upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific has persisted for 5 million years, even under ~3°C warmer climates Future upwelling may be more resilient than feared… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The German State of Baden-Württemberg is sponsoring 14 fellowships for researchers whose work is under political pressure in the US. Total funding for the fellowships is 3.6 million EUR. Freiburg, Konstanz and Tübingen are the participating universities. 🧪 www.myscience.de/en/news/wire...

This is so true! I have been involved in several committees where we get a handful of applications so PLEASE nominate yourselves or better yet nominate a deserving colleague.

"Mine, Baby, Mine': Trump Officials Offer $625 million to rescue Coal." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c... This reminds me of something my home province of Nova Scotia did that still has lasting repercussions. Nova Scotia has a long history of coal mining. 1/

I love that this particular bristlecone looks like a dragon

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

🌳 🪓 When the chopping begins, history ends. At Columbia's Tree Ring Lab, every piece of timber tells a story.

Timmins, Ont., has a sordid history with mining, from boom to bust, and the scars left behind. With a massive nickel mine set to open nearby, many want the jobs and benefits, but also a more cautious approach to critical minerals. @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/critical-min...

Also those awards that land you as chair of the awards committee for the following year.