At the same time, some of these kinds of efforts are already happening, though at a more "local" level. Great reporting here from Brett Walton on water deals across the western US www.circleofblue.org/2026/supply/...
🌊 Measuring equity is key to better ocean governance.
A new study introduces the Ocean Equity Index (OEI), a systematic way to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects, and policies, from local to global scales.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
At WEF, speeches by world leaders totaled almost four hours of speaking time: and not one mentioned climate change.
So @wedonthavetime.bsky.social organized an alternative WEF speech by some of the world’s leading scientists and systems thinkers. It took place on a pile of snow.
Watch here:
DRI Ecohydrologist Christine Albano answers common questions about the relationship between a warming atmosphere and extreme weather, including wildfires, droughts, and flooding.
Read more and watch the third video in our new DRI FAQ series with research experts ➡️ bit.ly/albanofaq
Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Bar graph showing US temperatures by year. Blue bars going down are temperatures below 20th century average and are present in beginning of graph 1895-1970s. Orange bars most recently indicate above-average temperatures. Temperatures are rising because of climate change.
📈 It's official from NOAA. 2025 was the fourth-hottest year on record (since 1895) for the contiguous U.S. 🔥
Average temperatures for the contiguous U.S. in 2025 were 2.6°F (1.4°C) warmer than the 20th century (1901-2000) average.
🧵 Let's dig in a little deeper.
Number of users citing each of top 25 Carbon Brief papers for Bluesky and X
Where is climate research being talked about the most?
Using the new @carbonbrief.org list of top 25 climate papers of 2025 and @altmetric.com, I found that compared with Twitter, these papers were discussed
*** 58% more on Bluesky ***
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NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025 | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/sF3cD1c
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research.
Listen here:
Very large glowing lava fountain at Kilauea volcano, 11 am hst, 7 Dec 2025, episodes 38, as grabbed live from the #USGS live K2 webcam.
🧪🌋⚒️ Beautiful Kilauea volcano in #eruption again, with an unusual very high mass flux, near-lateral #lava fountain, next to a vertical fountain in episode 38, now, 6 Dec 2025, as seen live on the K2 usgs webcam. See video clip of usgs livestream at ~10 am hst youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-lk... #hawaii
Wow, so cool!
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...
The three Category 5 storms of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
A legacy of 2025’s Atlantic hurricane season is how fast storms intensified over unusually hot oceans.
5 hurricanes.
4 saw Extreme Rapid Intensification (58+ mph in 24 hrs).
Ocean heat encountered made more likely by climate change:
• Melissa: 500–900x
• Humberto: up to 90x
• Erin: up to 100x
We’ve always had floods – but as the world warms, they’re becoming more intense and more severe.
We’re all in harms way – but those who don’t have a safe place to live, or can’t take food and water for granted, are always most vulnerable.
Unmute for sound • •• RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150
RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150
Geologic map of the Bay Area, showing an anastomosing network of strike-slip faults. In a second map, the blocks of crust defined by these faults are restored to their positions at 34 Ma, with arrows labeled as to the distance they have moved since that time. Extremes: Mt. Diablo has moved 175 km southeastward, while Point Reyes has moved 290 km northwestward.
Cool inset map from this "Geologic Map of the San Francisco Bay Region," by Graymer, et al. (2006). ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/...
It shows the blocks of crust sliced & diced by Bay Area faults, and how much & in what direction they have moved in the past 34 million years.
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"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
European summer heatwaves are worsening unevenly
Central & Northern Europe: more moisture stress = stronger, more variable heatwaves
Southern Europe: drier but more stable = weaker extremes
Prepare for variability in the north, warming in the south
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Woah
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Screenshot that says "Melissa has passed over waters made 1.4°C warmer, on average, by climate change." and "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely." along with a map of Hurricane Melissa's path.
To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
...aaaand Melissa is now the strongest tropical cyclone ever measured in the satellite era.
T8.5 = 185kt
The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 150M cat bond for Jamaica has a trigger design that uses hurricane central pressure and location.
That data is being collected by NOAA Hurricane Hunters who are currently working without pay.
www.artemis.bm/news/jamaica...
Philip Prince discussing how the geography of Jamaica is going to govern landslide impacts upon Hurricane Melissa's landfall tonight & tomorrow. youtu.be/QQ4a_01mGQY?... ⚒️
This is a literal nightmare.
As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.
🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"
Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
