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We wrote about how federal workers are fighting back: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Important point that I haven’t seen in the news coverage of these firings so far.

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A new climate and security report published in Germany yesterday highlights how global warming drives and intensifies numerous global security threats, including food security and political instability.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you? #Climate

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 days ago • 1569 comments

NEW: @noaa.gov offices have been asked to search their grants for climate-related keywords, among other executive order-related terms. This could put climate grant-funding in the crosshairs if/once the judicial order holding the funding freeze back is lifted. www.axios.com/2025/02/09/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

We have a host of resources on investigative reporting, all free. 🧪

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Five years ago some infectious diseases experts were starting to grasp that the world was watching the emergence of a new pandemic. #Covid was a painful experience that should have taught us a lot about pandemic preparedness. But we seem to be unwilling to learn. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/c...

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

Climate change ‘supercharged’ a series of 5 typhoons and a tropical storm that killed over 170 people that battered Philippines over just 23 days, new research by @wwattribution.bsky.social reveals. Learn more about the study 👉 ow.ly/x6ww50Uqut9 🧵

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Great list! (And I’m not just saying that because I have a contribution in Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders!)

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Asha loves shoeboxes almost as much as I love shoes #catsofbluesky

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

This @carbonbrief.org analysis estimates the potential climate impact of the next US administration. Lowlights: * adds 4 GtCO2e of emissions by 2030 * nearly $1T in extra damages * estimate doesn't even include fossil fuel expansion * all but puts the nail in the coffin of the 1.5C target

submitted 113 days ago • 13 comments

2024 will almost certainly be the hottest year on record. The most important thing you can do about it, if you can vote, is vote. www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-2... by @andreatweather.bsky.social with @unamandita.bsky.social 🧪

submitted 119 days ago • 10 comments

This is a good resource for undecided or unmotivated voters, or people talking with same: comprehensive analyses of what the 2024 election means for science, health care, technology, education, nuclear weapons and more (issues, not horse race nonsense) 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/report/how-t...

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Beyond everything else, I think there is profound beauty in the fact that we can still fundamentally alter our understanding of what it means to be a living thing on this planet by just flipping over some rocks.

submitted 134 days ago • 3 comments

How did the COVID-19 pandemic end up eroding public trust in science? In today's episode, Dr. Francis Collins joins us to talk about how trust in science has dwindled and what we can do about it. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

Most of the wine we drink comes from a species called Vitis vinifera. And those grapes can’t survive the cold winters. That’s why researchers at Iowa State are growing special grape varieties that can survive the variable temperatures.

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

“If the pandemic began with messages of solidarity, it rapidly devolved into reassurances that only the truly vulnerable would experience COVID’s greatest harms. In the shadow of that predatory view of human life, the population of the vulnerable has only expanded.” VULNERABLE = LEFT OUT OF SOCIETY😷

submitted 186 days ago • 2 comments

Hey folks, I've been diagnosed with stage 4 #lymphoma. The chemo has forced me to cut back on my workload, so my friend Alex has created a #CrowdfundingCampaign to help cover living expenses, meds etc. If you're able to help, here's the link: angelinkweb.page.link/QmTivCsisTQC... Thanks!

submitted 199 days ago • 2 comments

As I explain here, climate change is not only loading the weather dice against us, it's also replacing some of the numbers with extra 6's and even some 7s and an 8 -- making heatwaves more dangerous, heavy downpours more frequent, droughts longer and stronger, hurricanes intensify faster, and more.

submitted 252 days ago • 4 comments

Rare earth elements are essential to a green economy, but mining them is a dirty, complex, and costly process. Dr. Ikenna Nlebedim and Dr. Denis Prodius join us to discuss how they developed a new method to recycle rare earth metals.

submitted 286 days ago • 0 comments

"What I learned from Zimmerman is that this career shift — one that I made too, from plant biology to science writing — is a pattern that has played out since botany’s professionalization in the 19th century." 🧪🌎 undark.org/2024/05/03/b... #memoir #bookreview #NatHist #botany #scicomm

submitted 294 days ago • 1 comment

So, so beautiful.

submitted 349 days ago • 0 comments

Had to laugh out loud at this one!

submitted 370 days ago • 0 comments

If another journalist already reported a story, you cannot call your piece an “exclusive.” Hey @nbcnews , you need to acknowledge the deep reporting of @laurabeil.bsky.social and Bianca Fortes @propublica.bsky.social that heavily informed your story — in the piece itself, not just on social media.

submitted 374 days ago • 1 comment

One week left to apply for The National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships! healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...

submitted 377 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday to the one and only Charles Darwin. "There is grandeur in this view of life—that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." 🧪

submitted 381 days ago • 0 comments

Dramatic video from this morning’s eruption in Iceland, the latest in the new era of the Reykjanes Fires we appear to be in. 🧪

submitted 385 days ago • 1 comment