If you are working on Antarctic science, consider submitting your work to the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social SCAR Open Science Conference in Oslo later this year, abstract deadline is on28th Feb. We are contibuting to several sessions, see more by following the link. #SCAR #OSM #Antarctic #science
Scientist in a white lab coat and gloves working with a laboratory instrument in a modern research lab filled with equipment and a laptop.
Two researchers in cold-weather gear examining samples on a rocky, snowy slope near a body of water.
Are you a UK researcher who wants to carry out a small-scale fieldwork project at our Antarctic research stations or on board our polar research ship?
📅 Deadline for applications is 4pm, 31 March 2026
Find out more on our website: https://ow.ly/aE5Q50Y3P5O
📸 Chris Walton & Nina Kinney
Unbelievable news yesterday: EDGE is one of two Earth System Explorer missions. Led by @helen-amanda.bsky.social (Scripps) ➡️ cryosphere & John Armston from @umdgeogr.bsky.social ➡️ vegetation.
I am proud to be part of EDGE.
Launch in 2030 at earliest: long wait for much needed data!
@bas.ac.uk
Conversations and #ClimateAction.
Thank you @edhawkins.org
A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.
youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
A choice without choice?
Is democracy alive?
Photo of a marine terminating glaciers. Text overlaid on photo "Media Training for Polar Early Career Scientists | Interested in learning how to talk about your research to journalists and the media? Join us to learn what makes science newsworthy from CIRES’ Science Communications Editor on January 29, 2026 9 am AKT | 11 am MT | 1 pm ET ". Photo by Clément Cherblanc.
Join PSECCO and @cires.colorado.edu for a media training designed for polar early career scientists. Register on the events page of our website: psecco.org/events!
From @pdynes.bsky.social on X.
A scenario one needs to consider.
Great reflection of Emma, her outstanding contributions and her potential. Looking forward for those who are inspired by Emma's work and ethos to step up and build on her vision.
Using spatio-temporal information fom an ocean-sea ice model to unravel distibution patterns of of cornerstone species in the Southern Ocean. Groundbreaking work by Denisse Fierro-Arcos. ⬇️
The @wcrpclimate.bsky.social - @ipcc.bsky.social co-sponsored workshop on high impact events and tipping points concluded on Friday - and only today for some of us! Really good work from a great number of colleagues. The workshp report will be published soon here www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-ipcc-2025
The COPs in a nutshell
Delegates in Paris
Day #3 of the WCRP/IPCC Workshop on Earth System High Impact Events, and Tipping Points and their Consequences.
Tofay we clarify definitions, evidence and methodology to be taken into the #IPCC-AR7 Lead Author Meeting.
@wcrpclimate.bsky.social
@ipcc.bsky.social
@bas.ac.uk
@aspectsouth.bsky.social
Day #2 of the WCRP/IPCC Workshop on Earth System High Impact Events, and Tipping Points and their Consequences.
@wcrpclimate.bsky.social
@ipcc.bsky.social
@bas.ac.uk
@aspectsouth.bsky.social
Our work for today is cut out. ⬇️
How can you manage a dam, a flood, or a hydroelectric plant if you have no information or data?
You can’t.
Under the Baku Dialogue framework, WMO is responsible for science-based support to advance water for climate action.
Find out more here:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4rcaRb0
Opening of the joint WCRP-IPCC workshop on Earth system high impact events, tipping points and their consequences.
Placing French context for effect of extreme events on lifes n livelihoods by local ministry n IPCC Focal Point.
🌍 UNSG António Guterres: “Adaptation finance must be prioritised — LDCs have the biggest financial & moral authority to demand it.” He said during a high-level meeting with LDCs Ministers led by Dr. Jean Mathanga (MW) & others - Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia
#COP30 #AdaptationFinance
Today, the new LDC 1.5 Mission is born!
✅ Endorsed by LDC Ministers in Belém, Brazil
✅ Now, the 4th LDC initiative alongside LUCCC, REEEI, and LIFE‑AR.
💡 Goal: Keep political momentum alive to keep 1.5 °C within reach.
🔋 Focus: Raise resources, tech & capacity‑building.
#COP30 in extra day - Adaptation finance is nowhere near what vulnerable nations need. This is the red line for LDCs. We need strong LDC Fund replenishment & a commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2030. Immediate 1.5 °C action required.
#LDCs #ClimateAction
The article follows an open letter to world leaders from leading polar scientists & organisations, stating "the evidence is unequivocal: the cryosphere is destabilising at an alarming pace."
@bepsiiseaice.bsky.social @scar-antarctic.bsky.social @catchscience.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/...
"These changes threaten water supply and infrastructure for billions of people"
@leti-polar.bsky.social, @zoraur0ra.bsky.social, and @pxh.bsky.social warn that the Earth’s frozen regions are approaching irreversible tipping points, and call for urgent action at COP30: www.landclimate.org/...
There is an opportunity for true leadership. Will there be takers? The only way forward is to invest into the future, business as usual will not buy anyone any time.
For anyone currently in #Belem for #COP30 strolling down the river on your rest Sunday thinking I really fancy a spot of science and storytelling... I will be speaking (and floating!) at sunset (6.30 pm) on the Guama River about polar ice loss and the global ocean in a warming world. Come and join!
S6B is about to be launched tomorrow. Stay tuned for more sea-surface height, wave height and wind speed plus other observations.
#Freilich 🛰
We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling.
unfccc.int/process-and-...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
First, "SBSTA" chair introduced draft conclusions on "research & systematic observation" (RSO = climate science)
This is effectively finalised text
* supports "integrity of climate info"
* welcomes IPCC update
* concern over climate system / obs networks
But…
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
Bangladesh:
"disappointment that the text does not substantially reflect the crucial information presented during the 'Earth information day'"
"deeply concerned about the consistent attempt to weakening the reference of the IPCC as the provider of the best available science."
