What Do Environmental Economists Actually Think About the Environment? Economists have a reputation for disagreeing on everything. But when it comes to the environment, the experts are more aligned than you might think.

Researchers surveyed hundreds of environmental economists on environmental policy topics. On some questions, 97% agree. On others, there's no consensus at all.

The divide tells you a lot about where environmental policy is headed: www.mondayeconomist.com/p/consensus-...

The scope of how dry it’s been in the Southeast is remarkable! Every area in the darker shade of brown is the driest stretch on record. It’s the vast majority of the SE and N #florida. 100% of the SE is in drought… 83% severe or worse… 1/

Congress must act: Stop the Forest Service workforce dismantlement Tens of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) are urging members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's announced ...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Congress must act: Stop the Forest Service workforce dismantlement. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting!
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#econsky if you have used the did_multiplegt_dyn package by @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social et al. to produce an event-study that is publicly available, please report it to them here: credible-answers.github.io/eventstudy_p...

Also I had not spotted their website: credible-answers.github.io it looks 🔥

Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

This story map on Tristan da Cunha is a great illustration of complex ideas on climate resilience and collective action in action:

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Variable linkages between afforestation programs and tree cover outside of forests in India Variable linkages between afforestation programs and tree cover outside of forests in India, Pandey, Spriha, Choksi, Pooja, Fleischman, Forrest, Howarth, Richard B

We found that highly targeted agroforestry programs are associated with increased tree cover outside of forests, but India's flagship afforestation programs are associated with flat or declining tree cover outside of forests.
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Please add your signature! I use EM-DAT frequently. "If EM-DAT were to cease operations, the consequences would not be abstract; they would be practical, immediate and damaging. It offers a carefully assembled, globally comparable database of disasters, including their human and economic impacts."

<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library Adaptation to sea-level rise confronts coastal communities worldwide with a new set of collective action problems that require collaboration. When does collaboration result in concrete action for ada....

New article alert! In this paper we compare drivers of collaboration in sea level rise governance across three regions of the US. Rare to have comparative analysis! Institutions matter, especially for costly forms of collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The World's collective disaster memory must be preserved

While mere numbers of people killed/affected by etc disasters do not tell the full story, EM-DAT is a critical resource for so many of us. It now faces the risk of termination due to the absence of sustainable funding following the dismantling of USAID. Please sign:
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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer&nbsp;seemingly disparate&nbsp;approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Disaster relief can discourage people from adapting to future disasters – for example, by reducing incentives to relocate. But in low-income settings, cash relief can also ease liquidity constraints and enable adaptation. Evidence from Pakistan’s 2010 floods shows that both of these forces exist but that they offset each other, so that cash relief does not cause more people to stay in disaster-prone areas.

🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt?

Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: https://ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7

How Many Wolves Is Enough? Now that thousands live in the United States, some people would like to kill more of them.

Just a casual mention of our research…in the Atlantic!!

Call for Proposals: Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue on "Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict"
Full information on scope, guest editors, and submission process at: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
Ask Jamon Van Den jamon.vandenhoek@oregonstate.edu questions.

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences

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I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

Job Opportunities | University of Montana, Helena College & UM Western

Seeking applicants to a qualitative social science post-doc position - located at Purdue University, but collaborating with me and others on the human dimensions of white-tailed deer and cwd management.

www.schooljobs.com/careers/ummi...

From bad omen to national treasure: The rare bone-swallower stork saved by a female army Once known as a bird of ill omen, India's endangered hargila has gained an army of protectors. Now it's beginning to bounce back.

A heartening story about conservation:

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Millions of Delhi residents lost water for days. Some say it’s still toxic | CNN Ravinder Kumar wades through ankle-deep sludge every day to leave his home in Sharma Enclave in northwest Delhi – yet inside the brick tenement, he does not have a drop to drink.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/i...

Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This would be truly insane

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?

My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.

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Great news and a wonder woman indeed!! She'll do great! Congratulations to y'all!

Big news in the Metcalf house…

Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!

Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
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Rutgers University is hiring:
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)

WCERE 2026 The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) is a special five-day gathering of environmental economists from around the world. The 2026 edition will be held at the N... The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) is the international conference of environmental and resource economists organised every four years by the World Council of environm...

Get your papers submitted for the WCERE 2026 in Carcavelos, Portugal #AERE #EconSky
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International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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