We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

Line graph time series of glaciers around the world for cumulative mass change since 1950 from a reference period of 1992. All areas are decreasing.

Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️

Information on methods: wgms.ch/products_ref...

This is what baby eels looks like. The long trailing tail is its *stomach* (nope, we scientists have no idea why)

Eels hold their mysteries close

📽️ by Fan Zhang

The Sky is the Limit (NCAR) A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces.

For your consideration: Crowd funding for "The Sky is the Limit (NCAR--A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces."

There has been an amazing outpouring of support for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) amid its proposed dismantling from people, institutions, & companies all across the country. You, too, can help by sending feedback to NSF by Mar 13th: www.ametsoc.org/ams/...

Mini floof

Reading Bottle of Lies was eye opening.

A theme emerging - honing heat pump *installation* methods could make a significant difference to uptake going forward.

Follow along as DRI’s Ice Core Lab goes on an expedition 14k feet high in the French Alps to sample a 12k year old glacier. After discovering the historic age of the ice, they’re hoping to see what’s changed since the original ice was collected in 1999. Read more: bit.ly/icecoredatesbacktoiceage

Get a #BehindTheScenes look at DRI’s Ice Core Lab as they are out in the field in France on Mont Blanc to collect an updated ice core from the Dôme du Goûter with the goal of updating a core that was collected in 1999. #DiscoverDRI and learn more about the Ice Core Lab: bit.ly/icecorelabdri

I had an amazing time in the French Alps with DRI's Ice Core Team, and am having a surprising amount of fun making these reels about it! I love my job.

The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have human-created emissions influenced thunderstorms?

When freighters were required by anti-pollution regulations to reduce their sulfur emissions, lightning over two Asian shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight in 2020.

Researchers analyzed years of lightning strike data to find the link between pollution and lightning
buff.ly/IFa5NUE 🌍

‘We’re 10 to 15 years behind’: The Nevada Heat Lab is working to save your life While Nevada is behind Phoenix, Arizona, when it comes to heat, a Desert Research Institute team led by Ariel Choinard is forcing progress.

Important work is underway at @driscience.bsky.social, filling a gap in Nevada government as a small team of researchers “own” the urban heat issue and guide policy.

Does Nevada need a dedicated government office for extreme heat? Story @reviewjournal.com
www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-...

U.S. Researchers May Never Probe Deep into Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Again Without This Ship The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level, and ocean heat in 2024 The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Here's the press release - available via @ametsoc.org: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am....

"For decades, the State of the Climate has provided the most comprehensive annual update on Earth’s climate"

Anyone see any coverage or statements by NOAA (like they usually do)? Just honestly very sad...

A graph showing agreement with various statements about science as well as conspiracy theories

Snapshot of US beliefs about science and flat-earthy stuff. [1000+ people surveyed, +/- 3%] carsey.unh.edu/publication/...

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Loving the one intrepid Nebraska journalist single handedly protecting her community from becoming a news desert: "The key: She covers her community so deeply that, in a county of 769 people, the Hooker County Tribune has 726 paying subscribers.”

New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

This downward spiral of the number of working journalists in communities across the country has been happening for years.

At my former shop for example, the newsroom was systematically reduced from nine reporters and three editors to just a single reporter over the course of four years.

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Global warming is triggering earthquakes in the Alps Study provides first solid link between climate change and earthquake hazard

It's not so often you get the chance to cover an entirely new impact of global warming. But here one is: climate make more earthquake.

Susan, get my pants

Holy shit.

One of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first-look images.

This image is 3,840×2,160 but the original image is 40,000×21,047 px.

Virtually every pixel is a star or a galaxy.

VIRTUALLY EVERY PIXEL

Oh

time.com/7295195/ai-c...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

AI can’t have my em dash Gen Z and AI have pulled a divisive punctuation mark into the spotlight.

For my first @salonnewsroom.bsky.social piece, I wrote about how freaks for the em dash (me, and possibly you) will not stand by and cede our precious punctuation to AI www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

I just published an explainer on aerosols and their role in the climate that I've been working on for the past few months! It includes both how aerosols work, how emissions have changed, and how thats driven recent warming: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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This video is arguing that... producing *food* is more wasteful than ChatGPT?

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology