Climate Science Serving America Fellowship Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

Dear Friends,

Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.

Deadline is April 17.

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U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Very much enjoying the deep dive on methane and CO2 from @hausfath.bsky.social and others. I especially appreciate @bobkopp.net's pithy way of making it all make sense below. Worth the rabbit hole ... if radiative forcing lights you up.

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

Pro-fire flank of the anti-science party.

If you are aware of any efforts for coordinated response pls advise

🔖💡🪟 @yalecncc.bsky.social scientist Noah Planavsky with co-author + Georgia Tech Professor Chris Reinhard have published a Comment in @springernature.com Portfolio NPJ Climate Action on "The importance of radical transparency for responsible carbon dioxide removal." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢📢📢 @YaleCNCC Co-Director Peter Raymond and Research Scientist Maya Almaraz are co-facilitating a free online course this spring (YSE ENV 582b) on "Natural Climate Solutions in Agriculture Landscapes: A Survey of Topics." Schedule below and register here yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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On the Gates climate memo There is a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates’ new memo on climate change, but I think it fundamentally sets up a false dichotomy.

There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates' new climate memo, but I think it sets up a false dichotomy between reducing emissions and helping the world's poorest. I've put together a piece with my thoughts over at TCB:

🔖 🌳 🌎 🌐 🇧🇷 Great YSE News article on a recent YCNCC-funded workshop convened by YSE Associate Professor Paulo Brando to connect ancestral Xingu Indigenous knowledge with scientific methods to monitor and protect the health of threatened Amazon ecosystems. 1/3
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📢 🏆 🌊 🧮 Very pleased to share that a YCNCC research team led by Yale University Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) Assistant Professor Elizabeth Yankovsky and YCNCC Associate Research Scientist… | ... 📢 🏆 🌊 🧮 Very pleased to share that a YCNCC research team led by Yale University Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) Assistant Professor Elizabeth Yankovsky and YCNCC Associate Research Scientist Luke Gl...

📢 🏆 🌊 🧮 Very pleased to share that a @yalecncc.bsky.social research team led by Yale EPS Assistant Professor Elizabeth Yankovsky and Research Scientist Luke Gloege have won a $1.9M Phase II Award from the @bezosearthfund.org AI Grand Challenge. Details here - www.linkedin.com/posts/ycncc_...

I appreciate the response. I think, though, that the average reader leaves thinking BECCS=Drax, which is not accurate. Also there are experts who have thought deeply about the (key) counterfactual + incentive questions in specific BiCRS context who would have been good to talk to. Anyway...

James this article is a little disappointing. Which of the big BECCS / bioCCS offtakes are "harvesting wood?" All that I can think of MSFT or Frontier buying are using residues as feedstock. This balance is not reflected in how you've presented the "objections" to BECCS.

📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Blue Carbon OAE: A wave of science for a new climate solution initiative In a Q&A, geochemist Gabby Kitch talks about an innovative Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture project that will accelerate the oceans’ natural ability to store carbon dioxide.

🌊🌊🌊 A big thank you to Jim Shelton and Yale News for this great Q&A feature with @yalecncc.bsky.social mCDR Lead Gabby Kitch, PhD and our new Blue Carbon OAE project. news.yale.edu/2025/09/04/b...

📢📢📢 The Yale Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences has opened a search for YCNCC Faculty and Asst/Assoc/Professor with a focus on marine and other geochemical CDR. 🌊🌊🌊 🪨🪨🪨
Details via the below link. Candidate review begins 10/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/about/opport...

Photo credit: In 1996, Mr. Doyle created a site-specific work for New York City’s Public Art Fund, gilding the steps of a pedestrian stairway on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge.Credit...via Chris Doyle Studio Obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/chris-doyle-dead.html

Safe passage to Chris Doyle (1959-2025). This is my kind of public art.

Chris Doyle, Artist Who Brought the Inanimate to Life, Dies at 66

"Humanity is revealed in the trying." Chris Doyle, quoted in Penelope Green's captivating obituary of the artist. What a wonderfully creative life.www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/chris-do...

📢 🗓️ 🌊 Very much looking forward to the upcoming Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and New York Sea Grant Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Law and Policy Symposium on 19 September 2025 where… | Yale C... 📢 🗓️ 🌊 Very much looking forward to the upcoming Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and New York Sea Grant Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Law and Policy Symposium on 19 September 2025 where YCNCC Ma...

📢 🗓️ 🌊 Please register via the link below for the @sabincenter.bsky.social mCDR Law & Policy Symposium 19 Sept in NYC, Seattle, Victoria B.C., and Newark DE. New @yalecncc.bsky.social mCDR Lead Gabby Kitch will be moderating an all⭐ panel on the State of mCDR Science
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Liming Can Help Enhance Carbon Capture in Agricultural Fields Yale School of the Environment scientists find that the common mineral can promote harvests and help fight climate change.

📢 🪨 🚜 🌊 📈 Peer-reviewed Comment in @natwater.nature.com from @yalecncc.bsky.social scientists on how aglime (CaCO3) can drive low-cost scalable CDR that delivers significant agronomic benefit to farmers.
Comment: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
YSE News: environment.yale.edu/news/article...

While the loss from U.S. federal service of so many brilliant scientists + other talented climate professionals has been maddening to witness, we at Yale are pleased + lucky to have Gabby join us to lead mCDR initiatives. Thank you to Builders Initiative for the support 🙏🙏🙏

Bezos Earth Fund Announces 24 Phase I Grants Under AI Grand Challenge…

📈📈📈 Big congratulations to the @yalecncc.bsky.social research team led by Elizabeth Yankovsky, Luke Gloege, Noah Planavsky on their Phase 1 award from the @bezosearthfund.org AI Grand Challenge for Nature and Climate. www.bezosearthfund.org/news-and-ins...

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Mati Carbon secures innovative debt facility to scale its carbon removal business globally and boost climate resilience /PRNewswire/ -- Mati Carbon ("Mati"), a project to bring economic empowerment to smallholder farmers in developing economies through the sale of durable carbon...

Great to see today's announcement of a JP Morgan debt facility, backed by The Schmidt Family Foundation, for Mati Carbon to advance the deployment of enhanced weathering with smallholder farmers in the Global South. High-leverage + super-catalytic philanthropy 👏👏👏 www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

📢📢📢 Day 1 recap from last week's Yale Climate Day / YCNCC Spring… | Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture 📢📢📢 Day 1 recap from last week's Yale Climate Day / YCNCC Spring Symposium on "AI for Natural Climate Solutions!!" Thank you to all the excellent speakers and attendees, and to YIBS (Eri...

📢📢📢 Recaps below of last week's @yalecncc.bsky.social Spring Symposium + Yale Climate Day on "AI for Natural Climate Solutions." Thank you to the excellent speakers, attendees, and to YIBS and AI at Yale for their partnership 🙏
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🗓️🗓️🗓️ Looking forward to this year's @yalecncc.bsky.social's 2025 Spring Symposium this Thurs-Fri 8-9 May focused on "AI for Natural Climate Solutions." Information on the program, speakers, and registration here -- www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A Closer Look at Pope Francis’ Favorite Painting Caravaggio was an artist of rare directness, whose naturalistic pictures brought the heavens down to earth. Our critic Jason Farago shows you what Francis may have seen in them.

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Barry Benepe, Who Gave New York Its Greenmarkets, Dies at 96 He brought farm-grown produce to the city’s streets, creating the largest network of farmers’ markets in the country and helping to revive neighborhoods.

Today we mourn the loss of one of our founders, Barry Benepe, and we celebrate his legacy:

"In 1966, he helped organize a protest to close Central Park to automobile traffic on Sundays in the summer."

52 years later, the park went car-free every day, all year long.

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There was likely an opportunity to get a somewhat more scientific assessment of the measurement situation.