Interesting new paper from European team on how researchers define the concept of "transformative change". Another fuzzy term like "sustainability" and "resilience". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good perspective on Trump admin disabling the US Forest Service mailchi.mp/alliancewr/u...

Ember has just posted world electricity data for 2025 (and monthly data for Dec, Jan, Feb). Lots of milestones! Good summary in this thread.

Browse the data at ember-energy.org/data/electri...

As the planet warms, scientists burn homes to figure out how to best protect them in wildfires Scientists are using controlled fires to study how to protect homes from wildfires. At a site in South Carolina, researchers burn down test houses to learn how different materials and designs can with...

apnews.com/article/clim... the planet warms, scientists burn homes to figure out how to best protect them in wildfires

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

As I argue in Saving Ourselves, a president like Trump might be just the shot-in-the-arm folks need to push us to do the hard work of systemic change. This piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social makes a similar argument using the extremely unpopular war in Iran.
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Consumers are lost at sea as seafood sustainability grows more complex What makes seafood sustainable? It used to be defined more simply. The emphasis was on not overfishing and on keeping the seabed and aquaculture healthy.

This story really is no helpful in defining sustainability or building the concept into the awareness or decision making of the average consumer apnews.com/article/sust...

Mark your calendars for @fao.org's Global Conference on Smart Farming: Leveraging data and technology for sustainable agrifood systems

🗓️ When: 1 July - 3 July 2026
📍 Where: Roma (Italy), Hybrid Event

For info: https://bit.ly/4sTRGmj

Listening to today’s Daily on this article, I don’t get the sense the reporters understand the absurdity of Roberts’ claim about a regulation to reduce coal to ~25-30% of power generation by 2030.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.

We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

Napa Considers a Post-Cabernet Future | Wine-Searcher News & Opinion Napa and Cabernet go hand in hand, but even hardened wine veterans are asking how much longer can it last? Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher

Convergence of climate change and market economics is spelling trouble for Napa wine country www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/04/na...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

So fitting that the birth of the worst chapter of the US Supreme Court was the justices tripping over themselves to stop climate action. Welcome to the list of the great monsters of history, John Roberts.

Record US drought sparks worries about fires, water supply and food prices The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data.

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#climaterisk

'Cruelly hot': Japan devises new term for heatwave days Blistering temperatures rising to 40C and above will now be branded "cruelly hot" or "kokusho-bi" in Japan, the weather agency said Friday, as heatwave days become increasingly frequent in the

Steadily increasing global temperatures has led to Japan creating a new term for "cruelly hot" or "kokusho-bi". The warming climate has also led to wider use of the term aridification and megadrought (the US is in the 27th year of a SW megadrought).
www.djournal.com/news/nationa...

Class 11 - Regional Discussion Middle East - Environmental Security YouTube video by Josh Busby

Next video installment in my Environmental Security class on the Middle East.
youtu.be/LfTKQLlX0ig

The hockey stick's blade is getting longer. Global temperatures over the past 2000 years. Temperatures over the past 30 years were 0.75 warmer than the 1901-2000 average. Warmer than at any time during the past 2000 years.

EU deforestation law nudges timber trade, Indonesia probe shows, but risks persist JAKARTA — Several European timber firms have cut ties with suppliers linked to deforestation in Indonesia following a 2025 investigation, suggesting that an upcoming European Union regulation is alrea...

news-mongabay-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.mongabay.com/2026/04/eu-deforestation-lw-nudges-timber-trade-indonesia-probe-shows-but-risks/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From %251%24s&aoh=17764638141793&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com share.google/s6zObB8oPLuR...

Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B...

Another indication of our climate-changed future.
#climate

phys.org/news/2026-04...

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

An “incomprehensible” disaster is unfolding at wetlands in New South Wales after the state water agency abruptly stopped environmental flows in the state’s north-west, leading to the deaths of turtles, waterbirds, frogs and sheep.

The Tragedy of "The Tragedy of the Commons" The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong

I was asked to teach a large intro climate class and have been behind in my prep all year. I finally read the textbook chapter on climate solutions and the book mentions the “tragedy of the commons” without context about the racist/eugenics connection (or actual research in that area).

The Yale report on trust in higher education tackles grade inflation as a collective action problem tied to student evals and enrollment targets. Could not agree more. "In 1963, ten percent of grades in Yale College were an A or A-. In 2022–23, that number was seventy-nine percent."

Important report from Yale about declining trust in higher ed. The NYT article about this study, relayed he disturbing fact: "last September 35 percent of Americans regarded a college education as “very important” — half the number who thought that in 2013."
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Huge, blockbuster new paper in the sociology of climate change by @liviosilva.bsky.social, just accepted to @amjsoc.bsky.social!

Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest

doi.org/10.1086/741696 i

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

We all grew up in the Anthropocene and think it’s normal.

It’s not now and it’s going to be nothing like normal soon. Half the excess CO2 in the atmosphere were polluted after 1990.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some polar bears are showing unprecedented resilience to climate change. Scientists think this is why Polar bears in Svalbard are better off than researchers anticipated.

Some polar bears show shocking resilience to climate change share.google/y8QYXZBdfP7A...

Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it | Fortune The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed more than $2 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple’s philanthropy is accelerating—though it still trails MacKenzie Scott’s by...

Jeff Bezos pledged $10B for climate change. Now Lauren Sánchez Bezos leads the charge to spend it | Fortune share.google/wxvWoNZDemK8...

AMOC is weakening and won't recover once it collapses. The point of no return was 350ppm CO₂ - crossed in 1988, now we're at 430 today. Gulf Stream early warnings already showing in satellite data. Fossil fuels knew.

#AMOC #ClimateChange #GulfStream #Science #Meteorologist

What is climate-flation? - weADAPT Land and Climate Review co-editor Edward Robinson sat down with Professor Pete Smith, one of the UK’s most prominent climate and environmental scientists, to talk about his new research project.

Would be great if we could get the term #climate-flation into US discourse as well, because there is no doubt that some commodities are rising in price due to climate impacts (eg chocolate), as well as the impacts of war, trade disruptions, and tariffs weadapt.org/knowledge-ba...

The Iran war created a global natural gas shortage — a windfall for U.S. companies With Qatar's liquefied natural gas still offline, U.S. companies see an opening and are bringing in new investments.

"The reality is...if we think about the Goldilocks of LNG pricing where it's not too hot and too cold – the pricing levels at the moment are going to result in demand destruction," Abbotsford said to the panel.

This is why fossil fuel execs are cashing out their stocks right NOW.