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Achievement unlocked! @earthsciinfo.bsky.social replaced his last gas appliance, disconnected gas service, and now avoids $46 per month in fees he used to pay regardless of how much gas he burned. That's $552 saved each and every year! This is an underappreciated perk of (complete) electrification.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Asking for a friend: how does the Golden Dome do against truck-based drones?

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Climate activist Greta Thunberg will try to sail to Gaza tomorrow with other ships aiming to break Israel's seige and bring food to starving kids and adults. She tried the same about a month ago and her ship was bombed in a drone strike.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

submitted 13 hours ago • 46 comments

Keep asking the questions. Don't let him get away with "we're not here to talk about all the damage I did in the government"

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

Trumpsters want to let banks become less sound and more risky, just as the Financial Stability Board (and others) warn of climate risk cascading through insurance markets into mortgages and real estate, jeopardizing international banking system. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

submitted 3 days ago • 147 comments

People I know who don't usually go to protests have committed to going to this one. It's going to be big. Join us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

💥 Drone strikes have reportedly set key Russian airbases ablaze, reportedly damaging or destroying over 40 aircraft, including long-range bombers, in one of the largest hits to Russia’s strategic aviation since the war began.

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Most Americans, 58%, now say that the government should do more to solve the country’s problems – a record high in more than 30 years of CNN’s polling: cnn.it/4jsRTb2

submitted 19 hours ago • 54 comments

Clean energy standards have boosted renewables and EVs—can they do the same for heating? We think so. Our new paper shows how Clean Heat Standards can drive more clean heat across Europe & explains how to make them work. www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 2 days ago • 455 comments

Nothing about this is OK. Grabbing a highschooler while he is driving to volleyball practice with his buddies cannot possibly be what will make America great. Grateful to so many in Milford, who are rallying around this young man, his family, and his friends. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Check out our video!👍Acoustic Monitoring of Oxygen Ebullition Reveals Hidden Productivity in a Seemingly Heterotrophic Seagrass Meadow @olarjournal.bsky.social spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration has just canceled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna that was meant to develop a bird flu vaccine.

submitted 3 days ago • 145 comments

Tesla shouldn't have this "self-driving" feature on roads with a human behind the wheel, let alone robotaxis! This is nuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As a professor, I can confidently attest that a reliable hallmark of AI-written term papers are messed-up citations:

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

submitted 3 days ago • 175 comments

Chevron Corp. plans to lay off nearly 800 employees in the Permian Basin www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Science is the most important long-term investment for humanity. The US Trump administration is working to control it in order to suppress science it does not like. But history shows: the consequences of state-dictated science can be catastrophic. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

New in Nature Communications: "State-led climate action can cut emissions at near-federal costs but favors different technologies" We used an open-source energy system optimization model to explore what happens if 23 U.S. states pursue net-zero without federal coordination. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Leaders from nearly all the major medical societies are asking the same, basic question: What did Kennedy have to fear to first let the Advisory Committee meet and provide recommendations before such massive changes? We all know the answer.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Again, as I’d said many times before, the US loses its historical edge globally to recruit the best and brightest globally and it also loses soft power. This is the ‘shoot yourself in the foot’ strategy.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The tradition is for commander-in-chief to give commencement addr at one service academy each year, on rotating basis ALSO the tradition, going way way back, for prez to SHAKE THE HANDS of all graduates. Photo of FDR, standing with braces, doing just that Current C-in-C couldn't be bothered.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Would you like to learn to tell stories to bring attention to climate change? Third Act Upstate NY is hosting three storytelling training sessions, and the first one is today! Storytelling for Climate Action – Train the Trainer May 27, 3:00 PM EDT To register: thirdact.org/upstate-ny/e...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Wow! Two thirds of #EV in China are now cheaper than their #fossilfuel counterparts. Yet, some automakers are still betting on the combustion engine. Like polishing their saddles in 1900 and Mercedes just unveiled “witchcraft on wheels“ with the invention of the car 🙈

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ICYMI: Last week, the Senate voted to attack state rights and clean air protections. Statement f/ @earthjustice.org @righttozero.bsky.social calling on @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social @nysendems.bsky.social to protect NYers by passing the Clean Deliveries Act ASAP. earthjustice.org/press/2025/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

to flag @justinmikulka.bsky.social's work: the time really is now to make sure there is money put away to clean up their mess

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

True patriots don’t believe the president should be a king. True patriots don’t support an attempted coup. True patriots don't want to strip Americans of our freedoms. It’s time to stop letting Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism. They’ve done nothing to deserve it.

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

submitted 6 days ago • 581 comments

It would be great if direct air capture worked. It would be great if carbon capture and storage worked. I'd give anything for more tools in the climate toolbelt. But, as Michael Barnard writes, sometimes the physics just aren't on your side. energymixweekender.substack.com/p/climeworks...

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WSJ talking about smaller nuclear reactors as if the economics work. "Developers are working on dozens of potential designs with the idea that smaller reactors that could be built in a factory setting, one after the next, could help drive down costs...." More energy policy built on fantasy.

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$79 TRILLION 🇺🇸 : “Analysis from the nonpartisan RAND Corporation: since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been transferred from the bottom 90% of earners to the top 1%… most extreme levels of income inequality in U.S. history…” www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/05/s... #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments