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We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!

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Trump Admin Bans Coverage For Trans Govt Employees, Mandates Conversion Therapy Coverage The OPM memo states that all health plans for government workers must cover faith-based approaches to gender dysphoria while banning gender affirming care coverage.

1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults.

It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.

It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.

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Fuels Mediate the Influence of Climate Teleconnections on Wildfires in Dryland Ecosystems

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Science folks!🧪

I'm curious what was the best departmental seminar series you ever attended? What were the things that made it successful and fun?

This morning, smoke from wildfires in Canada fill the skies over the northern Plains and Midwest.

After the smoke clears, a wildfire’s legacy can haunt rivers for years, putting drinking water at risk Scientists analyzed water quality in 145 watersheds after wildfires and found dramatic spikes in contaminants.

#Wildfire "While the most dramatic spikes in phosphorous, nitrate, organic carbon and sediment generally occurred in the first one to three years, some contaminants lingered for much longer."
Aftermath of wildfires lingers

theconversation.com/after-the-sm...

Human intervention or natural dynamics? Rethinking theories on woodland expansion | University of Nevada, Reno New research challenges long-standing beliefs about rising tree densities in the West’s dry woodlands

A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

A GeoColor three day image of wildfire smoke from the Manitoba fires swirling across eastern North America.

Stunning image of wildfire smoke from the Manitoba fires across eastern North America over a three day period.

GOES Imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and NOAA

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...

🌡️⚡Extreme weather whiplash is accelerating

Rapid temperature flips – sudden swings from extreme heat to extreme cold – are happening more often, getting more intense, and hitting faster as the world warms.

The poorest nations are hit hardest.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🧪 #SciComm

The Sacramento weather service office just sent an email detailing product changes amid "critically reduced staffing"
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift

Timescale Matters: Finer Temporal Resolution Influences Driver Contributions to Global Soil Respiration

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The Response of Carbon Uptake to Soil Moisture Stress: Adaptation to Climatic Aridity

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NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released its April 2025 outlooks. Warmer-than-average temperatures are favored across much of the U.S., with drought likely to persist or expand in parts of the southern Plains and Southwest. Read more: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Cory Booker is on the senate floor right now explaining how climate change in the Great Basin is defined primarily by increasing variability rather than net change, meaning wet years get wetter and dry years get drier.

Utah just banned fluoride in drinking water, undoing decades of science-based public health progress.
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:

Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America Plant communities on mountain summits are commonly long-lived, cold-adapted perennials with low dispersal ability. These characteristics in tandem with limited area to track suitable conditions make ...

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A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon

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A woman scientist standing in front of a boreal landscape filled with beautiful bogs in Alaska.

Just a woman scientist saying that no matter what I am allowed to say about climate change to funders/govt, the bogs will have their say.

Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant–Soil Feedback of a Semi‐Arid Grassland

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Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE)

🧪🔥 #wildfire #funding opportunity www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The next 48-72 hours (March 14-16) will be an example of how NOAA is one of the best and most important return on investments by the federal government. Forecasters and staff at local National Weather Service / Storm Prediction Center offices will save lives facing severe weather and fire risk.

A map showing the topography of Antarctica, without ice

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready?

Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

A reminder of the high density of homes, families, and lives that are in an area of Texas -- particularly the Panhandle -- with a major risk to wildfire conditions.

Climate change continues to produce the long-term conditions that allow for explosive fire growth on weather days like these #txwx