Agami Herons.

When we talk about climate change, a lot of weird looking numbers can get tossed around. Metric tons, millions of tons, and so on.

How do we make sense of this, and put it all in context?

Welcome to “Carbon in Context” by Project Drawdown. It helps you see the bigger picture.

Check it out!

Tiny North Carolina town takes a big step toward geothermal energy Seed funding will help the rural town of Enfield in its quest to heat and cool homes without fossil fuels while drastically lowering residents’ energy…

Thermal energy networks (TENs) -- networks of pipes that bring up heat from under the earth's surface to warm homes & buildings without pollution or emissions -- are breaking out all over! Here's a new one in a tiny, rural NC town:

Scientists report that a living reef coastal defense system can reduce wave power significantly, suggesting the approach could offer a new way to protect shorelines from storms and rising seas. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

qPCR validation and field application of a rapid RPA-LFD assay for monitoring the invasive alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) Understanding species’ distributions beyond their native ranges is essential for monitoring non-native species occurrences. The alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), native to North America and listed...

New and highly sensitive molecular tests have been developed to allow for the on-site detection of the invasive alligator gar.

These tools are designed to provide accurate results in just 15 minutes: doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.107.182542

Migration speed, timing, and long-term shifts in age structure in North American passerines during fall migration vist.ly/4y22b #AvianConservation #Migration #Demography

🚣A canal expansion project in the Panama Canal has coincided with an increase in marine fishes entering the canal's freshwater interior, Lake Gatun. New analysis of the lake's social-ecological network reveals system-wide changes...

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Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.

We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.

We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Cheap Batteries Are Taking Over the World’s Power Grids Falling costs, rising electricity demand and the Iran War are nurturing a boom in energy storage.

Batteries won the war.

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Ocean warming weakens the sea–land breeze in coastal megacities - Nature Climate Change The sea–land breeze acts to counter urban heat in many coastal cities. Here the authors simulate how this circulation changes with warming ocean water, showing that it decreases in most of them, addin...

Ocean warming weakens the sea–land breeze (SLB) in coastal megacities

The SLB, driven by thermal contrasts between sea and land, forms a key circulation system in coastal cities which mitigates urban heat islands, improves air quality and supports urban liveability.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

Rivers turning orange in the #Arctic? Thawing permafrost + more rainfall are generating acid that’s reshaping #freshwater systems—an unexpected fingerprint of #ClimateChange.

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South Africa, the world capital of tree invasions - Research for Impact Prof David Richardson’s career in invasion science started when he studied forestry as an undergraduate student at Stellenbosch University (SU) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whereas most of his p...

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Declining PFAS levels in seabird eggs reflect impact of regulatory action In a recent study published by the Journal of Applied Toxicology, researchers examined the levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in the eggs of northern gannets — a species of seabird — over a 55-year period...

we can make a difference. www.ehn.org/pfas-seabird...

Not long left now to get your applications in!

Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?

Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heatmaps of climate variables in southwestern United States

The endangered Pacific pocket mouse

Climate change is a huge challenge for endangered species because genetic variation needed to adapt is often lacking.

Our new study in Science Advances highlights the potential for conservation breeding and reintroduction to boost resilience to climate change. @science.org

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

A must read. Blocking climate policy was the instigation for the birth of the Supreme Court shadow docket. Let’s be very clear that ‘vote for the climate candidate’ is hollow advice when 1) our courts don’t understand climate science 2) rightwing justices change procedures to prevent climate action

Invasive Asian swamp eels are spreading in South Florida Invasive Asian swamp eels are spreading in South Florida canals. UF wants the public's help to track this threat to native species.

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Women in STEM
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For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

"Solar, wind, and batteries will account for 93 percent of power capacity added to the grid this year, according to the Energy Information Administration, but rapidly rising power demand is giving a lifeline to fossil fuels." https://bit.ly/426KEPB

Sometimes it's hard to understand the causes of climate change. While the basic idea -- we emit greenhouse gases, which warm the planet -- is well known, it's easy to get lost in the details.

But here's a summary with some more detail -- showing the fundamental sources & sinks of warming pollution.

On April 3, Laura Lawson, Executive Dean of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), spoke with the students gathered in the classroom at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health at Rutgers University for their final...

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The Data Center Transmission Brawls Are Just Getting Started What happens when one of energy’s oldest bottlenecks meets its newest demand driver?

Massive hyperscaler data centers can demand cities worth of power.

I spent the last few weeks trying to understand how the grid will keep up with them. What I learned is that we're all about to fight over that too, very soon.

My latest feature for @heatmap.news

Interesting exposure of the dirty tricks brigade

Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way Early publishing success, team size and international collaborations are some of the best predictors of future publication rates.

Early publishing success, team size and international collaborations are some of the best predictors of future publication rates

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USask research explores impacts of increasing wildfires on biodiversity - News Wildfires are a common and growing risk across Canada, but a researcher from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is highlighting how increasing wildfire activity influences biodiversity in northern...

What can wildfires teach us about biodiversity?

#USask alumni Dr. Aaron Bell shares how the characteristics of wildfires
help promote biodiversity by creating different habitats for a variety of species post-burn.
news.usask.ca/articles/res...

The baffling ecological disaster that’s killing America’s freshwater mussels Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels | Scientific American share.google/pTWzBnZBssaZ...

A photo collage of ESA's 2026 class of fellows and early career fellows

🎉 Congratulations to ESA’s 8 new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows! These honorees are advancing ecological science through research, leadership, and service.

Learn more about these individuals in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/Ao1V50YK00I