“They won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. “No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” Our political leaders might not believe in climate change, but insurance companies know the score. And it's being felt disastrously, all over the country. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)

Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

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Have NEVER seen a marathon with a finish this close

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Simbu wins a photo finish in a marathon. Incredible.

There aren't nearly enough rooms for COP30 delegations. Belem always seemed like a confusing choice. Why pick a city that doesn't have enough beds? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...

Brazil Invited the World to the Amazon. It’s Become a Big Headache.

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It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,” said David Crisp, a former scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.

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It was a pleasure to meet Dr. Asmeret Berhe @aaberhe.com (former Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy) during her visit to @woodwellclimate.bsky.social today. Excellent talk on soil carbon/precipitation shifts, and smart perspective on the future of federal climate science

The EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding has underpinned recent U.S. efforts to reduce GHG emissions, and is now a target for the Trump Administration. I wrote an explainer with @woodwellclimate.bsky.social colleagues about the very endangered Endangerment Finding www.woodwellclimate.org/why-is-the-e...

Why is the Endangerment Finding so important to protect? - Woodwell Climate

The Endangerment Finding is a foundation of U.S. climate policy ant it is under threat from the presidential administration.

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If you happen to be visiting Cape Cod next week, stop by, have a drink, and join Sue Natali and I for a discussion about maps 😎 bit.ly/4fKIBXJ

Woodwell Climate Conversations: Mapping the Arctic, Charting the Future

Harnessing finance and science to scale nature-based climate solutions.

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Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵

A 17km horseback trek brought us to the Dukha reindeer herders' autumn camp in the West Taiga this week. We're here to co-create maps, sharing the story of their nomadic life and how they're navigating climate change and land use changes. Drone 📸: IG @l.s_ragchaa @permafrostpathways.bsky.social

After many days of travel: inc four flights, 8 hours of 4x4 off roading, and a half day (and into the night) on horseback, we’ve reached the Dukha reindeer camp on the east taiga of Mongolia, just 10 miles from the Russian border. And they have starlink! 🙂

Excited to be visiting a new (to me) part of the permafrost region this month, with friend/colleague Marina Tonkopeeva of the International Centre for Reindeer husbandry, new collaborators from the Dukha indigenous community, and local science experts. I wonder what maps will come of this trip?!

2 months down in Climatological Summer At Blue Hill Observatory, last year was # 1 warmest at this point This year, # 2

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts.

The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

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Excited to welcome the amazing Gina McCarthy to the Woodwell Center next week. As U.S. climate policy moves backward, her insight and expertise on how to move forward will be incredibly valuable. Register below to attend in-person or to watch online.

Woodwell Climate Research Center@woodwellclimate.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us virtually on Thursday, July 17 from 5-7PM EST for “Turning the Tide: Climate Progress, Peril, and the Path Ahead with Gina McCarthy and Max Holmes.” join-us.woodwellclimate.org/woodwellclim...

China is betting on the future of energy with renewables. The United States under Trump is betting on the past with oil and gas. It’s pretty clear who will win. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Proud that the Woodwell Climate Research Center (@woodwellclimate.bsky.social) is a member of the Friends of NOAA coalition. Timely work to support an incredibly important agency - for climate, weather, and oceans. See the coalition's new website here: friendsofnoaa.net

Friends of NOAA

Supporting the mission, products, and services of NOAA

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Unpacking the Recent Heat Wave with an animation of NOAA's Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) data 🗺️ Stay cool this summer folks!

I love seeing adaptation and resilience action like this in other municipalities! The more local action we see, the better we will all be prepared. More than half of the world's population already lives in urban centres, and we also serve as emergency response hubs for rural climate disasters.

David McGlinchey@davemcg.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re proud to have worked in Chelsea, MA, to develop a granular climate risk assessment for local officials. This is a resilient community that is leading on adaptation strategies

We’re proud to have worked in Chelsea, MA, to develop a granular climate risk assessment for local officials. This is a resilient community that is leading on adaptation strategies

Climate Central@climatecentral.org · last yr.

Extreme heat kills more people in the U.S. than any other weather hazard. In Chelsea, MA, residents are turning up the shade with trees, reflective rooftops, and other smart solutions to cool down their streets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFmi...

New roof top exhaust fan being installed for our laboratory at the Woodwell Climate Research Center (@woodwellclimate.bsky.social)

Excellent scientist and human being. Take a moment and read about Shiloh Schulte, who helped restore American Oystercatcher populations. “When we commit to conservation, we can restore declining species.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/07/m...

Scientist at Plymouth conservation nonprofit dies in remote Alaska crash - The Boston Globe

Shiloh Schulte, 46, held a doctorate degree and lived in Kennebunk, Maine, where he previously served on the town’s Select Board.

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(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

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I dug into the NSF cuts & other ways that the Trump administration is shutting down climate science. “Basically it’s a shit show,” Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer says, “and how bad a shit show it is will depend a lot on what happens in the courts and Congress over the next few months.”

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies

Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

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This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Senators coming for my job now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Starve science and you harm the nation snd its future. What happens when you have national leaders who don’t believe in the future? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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Excited to be part of the Woodwell team at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride this week. Reach out and say hi if you happen to be at the event. Also, be sure to grab a coffee at Telco coffee shop and take a peek at some beautiful maps/art while you're here. www.telluridenews.com/news/article...

'Data Is Beautiful'

The creator of Mountainfilm 2025’s annual mural — a series of colorful, cascading panels outside the Telco coffee shop — got a “huge congratulations” on Instagram from an unlikely source

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Thank you @permafrostpathways.bsky.social ! I am very excited that this special issue is out there with articles from RedFire, Community Wildfire Protection Plans from AVF, articles on the Wildland Fire Initiative, the upcoming Expert Group, just a ton of great contributors here.

Permafrost Pathways@permafrostpathways.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Edward Alexander @gwandaii.bsky.social for developing this special Arctic issue of #Wildfire magazine in partnership with the #ArcticCouncil and the International Association of Wildland Fire. Sue Natali and Brendan Rogers also authored an article on wildfire and #permafrost thaw.