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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military. They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.

Still waiting for a polartree

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk

There's a lot of new solar and energy storage in the hopper across the country. Texas and California get the headlines, but look at that swarm of projects popping up across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.

**sometimes** need to...

YEah but most profs and HS teachers will tell you from experience that this is an expanding thing and that it causes increasing complexities (and often doesn't pass the smell test). The article draws on research that shows these accommodations have expanded most dramatically at elite schools/

The new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share! ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

Hi.Today in "one day one paper", large terrestrial herbivores reshape forest nutrient cycling, with ruminants often slowing litter decomposition while non-ruminants and frugivores enhance soil fertility.Context dependency and tropical forest gaps highlight urgent need for long-term diverse research🌎

"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social #NYT

1/3 In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍 This has big implications for carbon offset programs! Next slide, please ...

Worldwide clean energy investment is now roughly 2x fossil fuel spending, per IEA.

Do you know where your coffee comes from? Try to find the third-largest producer in today's chartle at chartle.cc

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Climate action isn’t just about carbon tonnes or warming degrees, it’s about people’s lives, health, dignity, and wellbeing We've a new article in Lancet Planetary Health mapping how climate policy models are missing far too much of this story. 🧵 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🦌 Animal portraiture London: Frederick Warne & Co., c1912. [Source]

Few things will give you some much-needed hope for the future like writing letters of support/reference/nominations for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students. One of the true privileges of the job.

"But, dear readers, we do not live in a healthy world... Springer-Nature has launched a “Discover” series of journals that seem to deliberately and systematically mimic the MDPI brand."

Grifters gotta grift. It still amazes me that the entire Republican Party is acting as a facilitator for corruption at a scale that is unprecedented in US history. The degree to which the Republican Party is undermining American interests is simply shocking. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

whoa, STOTEN (Science of the Total Environment)... yet another story begging for science culture to be fixed by bold action (e.g., to dissolve big publishing companies like Elsevier and make their assets and journals public goods; to stop incentivizing quantity over quality in scientific outputs)

“People in Appalachia are used to being let down by the government, but this time we had the money. It was still taken away, and people feel betrayed.”

I would rehab old furniture

Aquilegia formosa, the nonnative Western Columbine, blooming in my yard. It doesn't grow in the wild in Colorado but is native further west, especially in the Sierras. I grew these ones because I love Columbines! #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 25 🌿

"To date, the program has deployed $145 million in capital on nearly 54 megawatts’ worth of solar projects that are expected to help save a collective $57 million in energy cost."

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

"We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought. Understanding this distinction is the key to separating scientific fact from the speculative science fiction of AI-exuberant CEOs."

The Nepalese EV transition. In simple terms, brown on this graph is India's share and blue is China's share. The trigger? India effectively halted all imports of petroleum into Nepal in 2015, an "undeclared blockade", which was "masked as constitutional concern". robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

"During the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump gathered oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago estate and promised them a powerful return on their investment if they raised $1 billion to help him retake the White House"

Happy little trees. 🎄

Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool

You went into a coma in 2017. You just woke up today. You saw this headline. You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”

Tehran is on the brink of a severe water crisis. Multiple factors have left the city unprepared for the current drought, including population growth, mismanagement, and sanctions, but a rapidly warming climate is only adding to their problems. abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

US clean energy manufacturing investments slowed again last month. We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s... 🔌💡

Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Incredibly proud of my former student, Rohan Gowda Thanh Quang. His new paper in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩: 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 analyzed $128B in US climate investments & finds that 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - especially nature-based solutions. Results in 🧵: 1/9

Not clear to me whether these rules are designed by the fossil fuel industry, tech industry, Russia/Saudi Arabia, "Abundance" centrists, DC consultants, or virtually all Republicans & far too many Democrats. But they are this moment's conventional wisdom. And they are a doomed, reckless farce.

Another COP. Another disappointment.

hey, getting better now!

COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason. MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs. 1/4

"The end of progress against extreme poverty?" We have to work so that current trends are not good predictors of the future. Thanks: @maxroser.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/end-progress...

Desert mud (forbidden chocolate). #photography

First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡

COP30 just wrapped and the Paris Agreement turns 10 this year. Here's where we are on climate: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

🐵 Field book of western wild flowers London, C. [sic] P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. [Source]

dinner when my partner is not home