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Fertiliser disruption from Iran conflict prompts global food shortage warnings Prices have jumped and exports been hit as war puts pressure on one of the world’s largest producers

www.ft.com/content/7efe...

Black History Month Spotlight: Greg Jenkins This Black History Month post spotlights Greg Jenkins, a professor at Penn State who focuses on weather, climate change, and air quality in West Africa.

#BlackHistoryMonth Spotlight: Greg Jenkins is an AMS fellow and past recipient of the Charles E. Anderson Award. From mentoring the next generation of diverse scientists to advancing climate science on a global scale, his work continues to inspire.

More about his journey: https://bit.ly/4kNQC0q

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

NSF NCAR Stories As part of its coverage of, and response to, federal plans to break up the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), the American Meteorological Society is collecting testimonials from ...

If you have personal testimonials about how @ncar-ucar.bsky.social has benefited your career, submit your story to @ametsoc.org via this web form. #SaveNCAR docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ICE's purchases for big detention centers are marked by secrecy, frustrating towns At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.

apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for detention centers and leaving local officials out of the loop At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.

apnews.com/article/immi...

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com

It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

This kind of vagueness is the enemy of education. Am I supposed to avoid discussing climate change with my students in “Covering the Environment“ because it might be verboten? Is that the point? I’m really too old to be intimidated by crap like this.
www.statesman.com/news/educati...

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’

Here’s a shocking fact: they were lied to.

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

At a shrimp farm in Indiana, rising shipping costs are the biggest barrier to business — Marketplace Karlanea Brown, co-owner of RDM Aquaculture in Fowler, Indiana, talks about the business of raising and selling shrimp.

At a shrimp farm in Indiana, rising shipping costs are the biggest barrier to business - Marketplace apple.news/AoMhpcwJrRsa...

211-0252/25-2N - Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Mollusca

Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis We investigate the potential of using grain-size sorted marine sediments for biomarker analysis GDGT distributions are consistent regardless of grain-size sorting, and fine-grained sediment fract...

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis.
Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Summer School in Sea Level Science - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A 2026 Summer School in Sea Level Science (SSiSLS) for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scientists to be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole...

Great opportunity for grad students and postdocs interested in sea level science — WHOI Summer School, May 17-30

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward

Super excited to have this paper out!

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really good discussion on the anti science repeal of the endangerment finding & how this may lead to higher energy prices & more air pollution for us all

A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center was created to protect us against extreme weather and climate change. Now it's being transferred to an unknown "third party": www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c... Tell Congress and the NSF to stop the transfer and #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act youtu.be/pT8dCoZgH_M

We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It! YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act

Oxygen Isotopes in Tree Rings Track Neotropical Climate Dynamics Tree-ring δ18O from Abies guatemalensis in Central America captures interannual variations in boreal summer rainfall Lighter δ18O years are associated with a weakening of the Caribbean Low-Level ...

Excited to have this paper out showing a strong coupling between Central American tree-ring oxygen isotopes and ocean–atmosphere dynamics (interbasin SST gradients, ITCZ, CLLJ... ). Many thanks to all co-authors!

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Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

. @robbieandrew.bsky.social has one with the SSPs at the Global Carbon Project robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

“Epstein was at the center of all of this, which is how the elites operate… They're all hypocrites.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...

Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

good piece digging into the DOE's phony climate report, which is "starkly at odds with the vast majority of scientific evidence," explicitly dishonest, and clearly designed to justify otherwise-unjustifiable political goals: www.politico.com/interactives...

Don’t Let ICE Freeze Voting Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

As Bannon’s plans make clear, Senator Dems need to prohibit ICE from suppressing the vote by placing ICE agents at polling places. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...