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Here's a quick look at how science fares in the proposed Trump budget, from William Broad, @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social @kchang.bsky.social and me. nyti.ms/437jhFw

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

I'm sure there are government programs that should be streamlined and/or cut because they're ineffective. But I'm also sure that's not why the Trump administration is going after clean energy and the EPA.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

The new Silent Spring:

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Thrilled to see my book "H Is for Hope" on the longlist for the Massachusetts Book Award!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Spring is here and it's toad mating time at the local pond!

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Citizen science surveys of car license plates reveals alarming decline in UK #insect populations www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The only thing Congress can seem to agree to do these days is further screw things up:

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This story just made me want to cry.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"It is hard to shake off the feeling that, in the new-look US, climate data is the enemy."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I can think of another way to do checks and balances.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What you don't assess will still hurt you.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

What the U.S. is using its declining international clout to push for:

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

There's a pattern in this administration -- stretching back to Trump's complaint that the problem with COVID was that we were testing to see who actually had it -- in which they think if we don't pay attention, it's not happening. The Lack of Object Permanence Presidency

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Oh look! Just what the world needs -- another shopping tool!

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Tied a record today at 93 in Tampa. More impressive, it’s the 8th 90 degree day this April, breaking the record for most 90s in April. And we will see a few more before May! Also it’s the 2nd earliest we’ve reached 93. The earliest was 94 earlier this month!!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

If there is a Rubicon, we have officially crossed it:

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"The biggest consequence might be losing entire ecosystems before scientists have a chance to understand them."

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

“The ongoing global coral bleaching event is the biggest to date,” NOAA scientists said.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This would be cartoonish if it weren't so corrupt.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

"When Bloomberg recently analyzed earnings calls of S&P 500 companies going back to 2020, it found that the companies talked about the environment in the first quarter of 2025, on average, 76 percent less than they did three years ago."

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

apnews.com/article/clim... world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The U.N. projects global population will rise by almost a billion by 2037. If low U.S. birthrates are a worry -- and I would argue the opposite -- the obvious answer is to allow in more immigrants. This, of course, is exactly what those who claim to be the most worried oppose.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

As it cuts grants to study misinformation, Trump administration, violating a temporary restraining order, says it is not violating a temporary restraining order.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Let them eat cake, I mean toxic chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

$3000 in cash is weird. Even weirder: why does Kristi Noem carry her passport around with her in Washington, D.C.??

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Just the group you want giving menstrual cycle classes...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Even George W. Bush understood the value of marine reserves. Not DJT:

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Read it and weep.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

This is probably one of the biggest stories in the history of American energy. A fully permitted energy project already under active construction, ordered to stop over what is at least publicly just vague claims of issues with permits. What are the issues? Which permits? Who’s to say.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Apparently all it takes these days to destroy American science is a visit from three of Musk's minions:

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump, unwitting climate hawk?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling safer?

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

A record increase in the global average atmospheric CO2 in 2024, 3.75 parts per million (previous record was 2.96ppm). The global average is more representative than Mauna Loa, as it is the average of numerous stations located around the world. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Live in Massachusetts? The state e-bike rebate program just opened today. If it's like similar programs in other states, it will quickly be oversubscribed. Go get in line! goclean.masscec.com/clean-energy...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Making corruption pay again.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Trump wants to grant permits for deep sea mining in international waters, which, of course, don't belong to the U.S.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

L'État, c'est moi, 2025 edition:

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

You knew this was coming:

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

What does it mean when law firms agree to do work “ensuring fairness in our justice system?" That they weren't doing that before??

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Interesting thread on the potential upside of the current madness. One must hope for something these days...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

What you don't measure can't hurt you. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/c...

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments