Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future The tree mix matters. Near Chesapeake Bay, scientists have been experimenting with mini-forests for over a decade. The surprising results show how biodiversity pays off.

theconversation.com/dont-just-pl...

Vermeer vibe

Why is CT such an outlier?

Thermal storage heats up as industry hunts for cheaper, cleaner energy From the glass screen and metal components in your mobile phone to the plastic shampoo bottle you reach for in your morning shower, our daily lives depend on materials that have been produced and manu...

Electro-thermal storage is on a roll 🔥

My take for @reuters.com: Five years ago: a handful of pilots.

Today: a $2.51bn industry with dozens of companies across multiple use cases.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

How many more ways can this Republican administration do profound damage to America? Even George Washington understood how inoculation against infectious diseases was essential to a fighting-fit army.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Happy Tuesday Dorchester

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

A School of Mud Volcano Islands in Azerbaijan - NASA Science The tadpole-shaped islands along the Absheron Peninsula were born by explosive mud volcano eruptions and reshaped by erosion.

Mud volcano islands off Azerbaijan are featured in today’s NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day!

It was a great pleasure to contribute to this!

science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

An amazing collection of papers in "The Essence of Time" 👇⚒️🧪

🥳 It’s out!

📢 New PAGES Magazine: “The essence of time”

Explore gaps, challenges & future directions in geological dating - from biostratigraphy to radioisotopic methods.

⭐ Read here: pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

#PAGES #Paleoscience #EarthScience

@marumunibremen.bsky.social

"Your retirement is at risk." - Elizabeth Warren on the Trump admin shoving private equity and crypto into 401(k)s

The Trump Administration is pushing private equity, private credit, and crypto into retirement accounts.

Wall Street wants to dump its risky assets in your 401k – putting your retirement at risk.

Nice article about the quake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent advisory. 🧪

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.

2 graphs from a Raspberry Shake seismometer. Top graph shows acceleration, with the amplitude of spikes increasing a little after 08:06 UTC as the earthquake seismic waves arrive. Lower graph shows frequency, with low frequency vibrations in yellows and oranges showing up with the seismic waves.

Recording of today's M7.4 earthquake off the coast of Japan on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Massachusetts. ⚒️

A reddish hue to that herring

And another win for 🇰🇪

After 200 years scientists finally crack the “dolomite problem” After two centuries of failed attempts, scientists have finally grown dolomite in the lab, cracking a long-standing geological puzzle. They discovered that the mineral’s growth stalls because of tiny ...

Although I don't like the word "finally" in the headline, this does look like significant progress towards solving the "dolomite problem." I would love to see lab-grown dolomite under more natural conditions than electon beam pulses ⚒️
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Sacred Trout 2
Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe
1985

Microbiome signature of Parkinson’s disease in healthy and genetically at-risk individuals - Nature Medicine Microbiome analysis suggests that gut microbial changes in Parkinson’s disease evolve progressively from healthy individuals to genetically at-risk individuals to clinically affected patients, with th...

We've known the gut-brain axis is a key underpinning of Parkinson's disease. Today, for the 1st time, a gut microbiome signature denoting risk found in healthy individuals with genetic predisposition

nature.com/articles/s41...

For those wondering, Cambridge Analytica was widely blamed for micro targeting UK voters on Facebook with pro-Brexit lies. Looks like Facebook is being used again 👇

FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its ​reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking probl...

If I represented the Atlantic, I’d lock in the earliest deposition date on the calendar. Call Patel’s bluff. He has zero interest in putting any of this under oath.

John Korir of Kenya wins the Professional Men’s Division, snagging back-to-back victories and setting a new course record with an unofficial time of 2:01:52.

He beat his own time from last year by nearly three minutes!

Firefly. UK originally.

Knightia fossil fish from the Green River Formation in Wyoming…dating to the Early Eocene (50 million years ago) when the Western US was truly rocking and roiling. Picture is of brown fossilized remains outlining the skeleton of a fresh water fish, on a tan background of volcanic sedimentary rock.

So long Eocene, and thanks for all the fish.

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Decades of increased emissions from forest-fuelled BECCS - Nature Sustainability Governments are considering subsidies for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage fuelled by wood from existing forests. However, a transparent model estimates that this will probably increase emiss...

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) doesn't work: "... most emissions occur before the power plant and therefore cannot be captured, and that wood has twice the carbon intensity of natural gas and generates electricity less efficiently"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

John Korir sets course record en route to second straight Boston Marathon win. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe The 130th running of the Boston Marathon is underway with 30,000 participants stretching along the course. Marcel Hug and Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the wheelchair races.

Another win for 🇰🇪
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/20/s...

Volcanoes emit CO₂, but the amount is small compared to human emissions from fossil fuels, explains PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social in new video addressing climate change myths. Each year, human activities release 50-100 times more CO₂ from fossil fuels than global volcanic emissions.

Geoscience funding supports research that protects communities. GSA and the USGS Coalition urge Congress to support continued funding for USGS programs in FY2027.

🔗 Read more: geosociety.co/USGS-Coalition-Statement
#GSA #USGS #Policy #Congress #Geoscience #SciencePolicy