The GCE LTER annual meeting in December marked the transition from GCE IV to GCE V. Looking back at lots of great accomplishments in GCE IV and looking forward to lots of great new research in GCE V.

#EarthOptimism. Solutions everywhere

Seeding wildflowers and native plants under solar panels showed that after five years, populations of native bees had risen to 20 times their initial levels www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

#peaceprize #tacos

Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

In 2013, the mayor of Los Angeles set the target of 2025 for a coal-free energy grid. It’s 2025 and LA has a coal-free energy grid. And 60% of our electrons are carbon-neutral sources. Just wanted to share some great news.

What are we doing here folks

Depleted Tennessee Farmland Is Now Teeming With Wildlife ->Reasons to be Cheerful | #farmland #wildlife | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Power to the people! apnews.com/article/leti...

This belies Trump’s “concern” about drug trafficking. Eventually we will find out the corrupt back story.

The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program is looking for a postdoc with expertise in wetlands and biogeochemistry. Please pass this along to likely candidates!

Okay for once I totally and completely empathize with President Trump.

Something to be thankful for! Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the Intermountain Power Project, located in the west desert near Delta and serving southern California—stopped burning coal at mid-day on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving. 🔌💡

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing. One of the world’s 15 most-publishing journals has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin english.elpais.com/science-tech...

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder. Either way, expect prosecutions in the future. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC): "I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported." "There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."

So I wrote a bit more about it on the other site after I wrote this "tweet" (?) here. I couldn't help myself. Thought I'd replicate it here.

Well, here are my two cents Either Witkoff is playing games he learned in NY real estate (shifting goalposts so far into insanity that capitulation looks “reasonable”) or this plan is a classic 🇷🇺 psyop, hoping to make 🇺🇸 negotiate with itself & walk away looking humiliated nypost.com/2025/11/22/o...

A beautiful story of success amid all the carnage. Turn a river loose and it heals. CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... || #rivers

Sticker from a neo-Nazi organization, 2000. 25 years later, this is standard Republican rhetoric

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A really nice story about my former colleague Candy Feller, aka The #Mangrove Queen. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/11/18/m...

Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I found it. The most 2025 story.

Cutie baby sea snails hanging out. #marineplankton 🦑

Progress for pangolins is my news to me good news for Nov 16. thanks @wildaid.bsky.social #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries wildaid.org/price-of-pan...

Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.

UH and GCE graduate student Claudia at the CERF conference with her poster about long-term change in salt marsh vegetation.

Want climate fairly considered in Congress? Stop Big Oil’s multi-billion dollar campaign of dark-money corruption and lies. Start by pointing out the largest fraud and corruption campaign in U.S. history.

Want innovation on fossil fuel emissions? Give innovation a revenue proposition by stopping “pollute-for-free.” “Pollute-for-free” was always wrong morally and economically; it has now become actually dangerous.

The thumb on the economic scale is huge. IMF analysis shows a subsidy over $700 billion every year in the U.S. alone from “pollute-for-free.” $700 billion. No wonder there's so much dark money corruption and climate denial fraud.

53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy. Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United. The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Soil is one of the most important parts of our ecology and most people do not give soil the respect and admiration it deserves. For those who love soil, go and follow soil ecologist @frankashwood.bsky.social for beautiful photos and informative posts about soil ecology:

UH and GCE graduate student Eamon Hennessy talking about marsh recovery from disturbance at the CERF conference

UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social

The party that developed partisan “bulk gerrymandering” (aka RedMap), and convinced SCOTUS it was “nonjusticiable,” and pushed all year for more gerrymandering, is now going to court to argue against a partisan gerrymander.

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

Steve talking about marsh plant responses to sea level rise at CERF.

UH and GCE graduate student Kalpana presenting about disturbances in salt marshes at the CERF conference in Richmond VA.

GCE enjoying the CERF 2025 conference.

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...