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“The Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens. The cure was far more destructive than the disease.” That is the US Energy Secretary... from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

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Canadian oil companies seem to have caught the drilling fever from our southern neighbour. @woodsideful.bsky.social reports. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/10/n...

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Federal websites, scientists, and institutions are being forced to scrub language that contradicts President Trump’s agenda grist.org/language/tru...

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For over 50 years, we've covered the West’s environmental, ecological, and Indigenous stories. We’re committed to telling stories that matter. Check out our recent feature from Editor & Publisher.

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Here’s your daily dose of hopeful climate fiction: Read "Meet Me Under the Molokhia." grist.org/climate-fict... #Fiction #Solarpunk #Climate #CliFi #ClimateFiction

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A scary must-read about Jordan Peterson's gathering of the world's powerful players on the alt-right. @nationalobserver.com @desmog.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/10/o...

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AI has gotten a bad rap in certain circles, including environmentalists. But within Earth science, there are ways that AI can improve weather forecasting and climate modeling, while saving on energy costs @smallthoughts.bsky.social reports for @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/03/eart...

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The US and Europe largely solved the acid rain problem. Hooray! But now our rain is full of something a lot scarier — microplastics, PFAS, and other modern chemicals. And these pollutants are much harder to clean up. www.vox.com/climate/4016...

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Since taking office, President Donald Trump hasn’t wasted time unraveling Joe Biden’s climate actions, but many of Biden’s climate policies won’t be unglued easily.

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"For years, I'd dismissed Peterson as a scholar who, after torpedoing his own academic career, became an infamous YouTube personality. I was wrong. He is now the frontman for powerful people on the right attempting to take over the world."

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Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US overseas aid will almost decimate global climate finance from the developed world, data shows, with potentially devastating impacts on vulnerable nations.

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What could go wrong? Oh.

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Trump is moving rapidly to dismantle federal land management agencies and fossilize US energy policy. For the Republicans in charge, the game plan seems to be, "sell, baby, sell."

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Doing some reporting on the HHS buyout offers for @motherjones.com. If you have received the email & are willing to talk to a reporter about it & its implications for public health, I can be reached on Signal at jmcshane.19 — your identity can be protected 🗣️

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Read @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social's whole dispatch from the whole march: The organizers call for reversing those measures—ending “censorship and political interference in science,” securing and expanding scientific funding, and defending diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science.

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HAPPENING NOW! Stand Up for Science March More than 30 demonstrations across the country are telling the Trump administration to stop cutting science funding! Here is what the protesters have to say:

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“Today, we have fundamentally reset BP’s strategy,” said BP’s CEO, Murray Auchincloss, as part of the most recent announcement. “This is a reset BP, with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value.”

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The Donald Trump administration has formally agreed to drop a landmark environmental justice case in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region, marking a blow to clean air advocates in the region and a win for the Japanese petrochemical giant at the centre of the litigation.

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Dark money is poisoning Canada with pro-oil propaganda www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/07/o...

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Happening now! Today! In many US cities. The slashing of science and attacks on higher ed, as we've reported, will have major, major ripple effects on medical care, graduate education, and the economy—including private sector firms and nonprofits—not to mentions American leadership in science.

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I covered the original March for Science 8 years ago. The tenor of today’s #standupforscience2025 is completely different. In 2017 it was overwhelmingly about Trump being a science denier who thinks climate change is a hoax. Today it’s largely focused on the consequences of research funding cuts

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Follow @jeremyschulman.bsky.social and @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social as they cover the March For Science protests in DC and NYC... and reply with any pictures you might have from those, or protests elsewhere...

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Sorry DJ.

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At the #StandUpforScience protest in NYC—several hundred people turned out to Washington Square Park today to protest Trump’s cuts to public research

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Not a bad turnout at the #standupforscience2025 march

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Strong @uaw.org presence at #standupforscience2025. UAW represents NIH workers (and also @motherjones.com / @revealnews.org workers like me)

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At a House Energy Committee hearing, Republicans and Democrats laid out starkly different visions for how to meet a surge in U.S. energy demand.

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With deforestation rising and violence a constant threat, a bold initiative is using satellites to ensure U.S. supermarkets sell ethical, eco-friendly avocados. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Avocados #Mexico #Deforestation #Farming #Food

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“Our founders, after enduring an eight-year war against a monarch’s cruel reign from an ocean away, understood too well the importance of a more balanced approach to governance,” a federal judge wrote in his decision to block President Trump's funding freeze. insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

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Thousands of scientists from scores of countries around the world are joining together in solidarity to oppose attempts by the Trump administration to enact what they see as anti-scientific measures that threaten public health and the environment around the world.

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“What we’re really concerned about is what happens to those records now that this agency has just been gutted. Typically, what happens when an agency is shuttered, or closed, [is that] whatever agency comes to replace it takes ownership of those records.”

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With litigation funders facing no risk of a counterclaim, and potential awards that now average more than $200m (£160m), legal experts warn that the system has become a “gambler’s nirvana” for hedge funds and specialist financiers.

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Climatemaxxing would be an optimization challenge, finding the biggest ways to tackle climate change at home, at work, and in your community.

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Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed.

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“Just as a brain teaser, we mapped out how much it would cost us, if we even could download ‘all of NOAA.’ It would cost us $500,000 in storage per month—just to host, cold storage, not even have access to it." thebulletin.org/2025/03/were...

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Chemical companies often replace substances it takes academic researchers years to discover cause harm with less studied substances that turn out to be just as harmful. Brominated #flameretardant #polymers are the latest "regrettable substitutions." 🌍🧪 insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

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"Assurances that we’ll all find other jobs before too long miss the point. We don’t necessarily want other jobs. We don’t want sympathy. We want our work, & the places we’ve done that work, to be recognized & valued." A heartrending essay by Claire Thompson www.hcn.org/articles/los...

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“It’s pretty devastating. The short-term effects of this are bad enough, but the long-term effects? We can’t even tally that up right now.”

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“Wastewater systems are not designed for this changing climate. They were designed for an older climate that doesn’t exist anymore.”

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How Trump’s trade war could impact US electricity prices — and state climate plans. Northern states are depending on imported Canadian hydropower to clean up their grids. What happens now? By @zteirstein.bsky.social grist.org/energy/trump... #Tariffs #Utilities #Canada #Trump #Climate

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Where Hollywood — and the Oscars — still miss the mark on climate representation. Climate themes have long been the purview of sci-fi and fantasy films. Advocates say we need more representation in realism as well. grist.org/looking-forw... #Oscars #Hollywood #Climate #GreenSky

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It can be hard to keep track of every EO, budget cut and departmental gutting that will impact the environment, climate and our health under Trump. But @insideclimatenews.org has published more than 50 stories so far this year doing just that. Find 'em here: insideclimatenews.org/project/trum...

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Will polyester underwear, just one item among the 92 million tons of textiles cast aside every year, squashed in layers of strata over millennia, be recognizable as clothing to future archaeologists? Two archeologists decided to figure it out:

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The study suggests the risks of future tree planting and the economic risk of its failure could be mitigated by adopting the approach of financial investors, who spread risk across a portfolio of companies by choosing assets like stocks, bonds, and commodities to strike an efficient balance.

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Severe thunderstorms are forecast to batter the southern and central United States on Tuesday, with a threat of tornadoes, damaging winds, blizzards, flash flooding and dust storms possible from the southern Plains into the lower Mississippi Valley and south-east.

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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise. grist.org/video/quitob... #indigenous #Environment #climate #GreenSky

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“It’s very rare for something so different from what we know to be found,” says Isaac Lichter Marck, a plant evolutionary biologist at the California Academy of Sciences who worked on genetic analysis of the new species.

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The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the mammoth, and it’s starting with a woolly mouse. Read more here: buff.ly/xKPLn1c

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This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years. grist.org/science/anci... #GreenSky #Climate #Carbon #Environment #Biochar

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First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters, says Arwa Mahdawi - How do you stop people worrying about the #climateemergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it #NOAA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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