Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, smiles warmly on the left side of this split graphic while wearing a vibrant blue-and-green patterned dress with yellow accents and matching headwrap, holding a small potted sapling in a brown burlap sack; the right side features her quote in large text—“Equitable distribution of resources cannot be effected unless there is democratic space, which respects the rule of law and human rights.”—with attribution below noting her as the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and founding member of the Green Belt Movement, set against a soft green leafy background.

Remembering Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai on International Day of Forests.🌳

In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement. The #NGO is focused on restoring Kenya’s forests, protecting the environment, and empowering communities.

#WomenInSTEM #ForestDay #ecosky #WomensHistoryMonth

The people and technology behind earthquake early warning A marriage between a can of beans and a smoke alarm, 6-pound seismic sensors collect data that researchers use to establish trends.

Great work going on with AK Earthquake teams! @alaska.earthquakes.live

How the War in Iran Is Raising Concern About Water in the Middle East Millions of people in the Persian Gulf depend on desalination plants for their water, but recent fighting has highlighted the system's vulnerability.

Not well thought out: now Middle East Water Supplies are even more at Risk www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NHL players leaving fans to carry the mail

Global observations reveal rapid reorganization of ocean nutrients From coral reefs and kelp forests to the open ocean and deep-sea zones, nutrients that support phytoplankton growth and marine productivity form the foundation of oceanic ecosystems.

Global analysis of over 14 million measurements shows ocean nitrate and phosphate levels are shifting rapidly and unevenly, with significant implications for marine productivity and ecosystem stability. doi.org/hbsb2p

Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk Critical minerals are found in several forms in the ocean, from potato-size nodules to brine pools. They are also in some of the least understood parts of our planet.

Mining the ocean floor: nodules, crusts, and brine pools -- wise to prioritize the acquisition of knowledge of seabed ecosystems and processes BEFORE before before any thought of extraction:

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

Years before Galileo made his observations of the 🌙 and Jupiter's moons, he intensively studied the work of Claudius Ptolemy, until Ptolemy's own mathematical logic brought Galileo to "the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of the Universe". A fascinating discovery if confirmed. 🔭 🧪 🎢

Couldn't help thinking of @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social 2022 Opera, rhiannongiddens.com/omar

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran And over a shamed America

Serious environmental devastation and wide dispersal of pollutants over Tehran and Middle East

Bauhaus-style artwork depicting the sun, oceans, seafloor, and core as circles. Underneath the different stages and timeline of scientific ocean drilling are listed.

Always liked the simplicity of the Bauhaus-style.
Scientific Ocean Drilling 1960s - today.

Just out in #JournalofGlaciology , @noaa.gov 's E.Dawson et al 2026 used spectral ratio method and ice sheet radar data to gain observational constraints on ice sheet temperature in remote regions of #Antarctica and #Greenland. Open access link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

San Francisco volcanic field near Flagstaff on the Colorado Plateau, Arizona. Cinder cones formed by Strombolian eruptions. These volcanoes are so young (ky) that they have hardly eroded.

#CrisisAverted! @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social , this is a VERY HAPPY OUTCOME!!!

House and Senate include full WPM funding in unified budget bill Freedom Caucus appropriators tried to defund the radio station, but a “public outcry” against that and other reductions saw lawmakers reverse course.

@wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social , this is a VERY HAPPY OUTCOME!!! www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-gov...

AND most important, you mentioned our clipping!!

Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowards If 12-year-olds knew something was wrong with the extravagant endorsement of the Trump administration, how did, say, Auston Matthews, the captain of the Maple Leafs not know this?

@davebidini.bsky.social had some thoughts on the Team USA hockey. He's impassioned - and he's right. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Canadian journalist @davebidini.bsky.social tells it true

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

Pleistocene cinder cone in the southern part of the Owens Valley. Coso volcanic field.

U.S. women's hockey defeats Canada in OT to win Olympic gold YouTube video by Team USA

This is the gold medal team that we can be most proud of youtu.be/qPzw0DRBmlg?...

In Rual Alaska, Geospatial Education Creates Local Career Pathways for Youth | Case Study Bristol Bay adapts rural education for geospatial careers, giving Alaska residents in remote areas pathways to thrive through GIS programs.

#GIS education creates local-career-pathways-for-youth in-rural #Alaska

From Ted Turner to TikTok: The Rise and Fall of Science Journalism—and What Comes Next Speaking from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, a conversation for Breaking the News traces how CNN helped shape today’s fractured media landscape—and why rebuilding trust in science storytelling may be

Speaking live from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, Miles O’Brien reflects on CNN, the collapse of science journalism, and a new project tracing the roots of today’s fractured media landscape.

open.substack.com/pub/milesobr...

now that’s #outreach, @milesobrien.com and #KOPRI

Land Ho! Fifty-five days after shoving off, we see the beautiful cliffs of New Zealand - and smell the fertile turf.

Land Ho! Fifty-five days after shoving off for Antarctica. What an adventure.

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Looks like a rollback is brewing for Artemis II. March launch windows would close, but if they do it soon, they preserve April options.

www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Beyond the beaches, Wellington’s catastrophic sewage spill could be bad news for coastal ecosystems Sewage spills are often seen as short-term public health crises. But the ecological impacts can be lasting, especially if combined with marine heatwaves and storms.

Alarming coastal ocean event in Wellington -- arising in part from extremely wet January

An El Niño is brewing And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

An El Niño is brewing
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I'll be giving a talk on Feb 17 for the Hawkes Bay RSNZ and Art Deco celebration week on "the other large HB quake" the 1863 Waipukurau earthquake

AGU Denounces Trump Administration’s Repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote made history by publishing the first academic paper demonstrating that carbon dioxide traps heat from the Sun, a discovery that laid the foundation for climate...

@agu.org position statement