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Daniel Wolfe

@sadbumblebee.buzz

Climate graphics reporter and columnist at the Washington post. www.sadbumblebee.buzz

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Lauren Turek@laurenfturek.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration - JSTOR Daily

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.

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Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats" | Article for @reuters.com by Brad Brooks, Maria Tsvetkova and Andrew Hay references our recent (penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...) @pnas.org study: www.reuters.com/business/env...

Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats

Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern U.S. from the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. on Friday, ​floodwaters tore through Texas's Hill Country for a third day, and new fires erupted in the Pacific North...

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The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 3w ago

More than 500 cooling towers across Manhattan are not in compliance with city regulations requiring monthly water sample tests to help combat the spread of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria, records examined by The City Reporter show.

Hundreds of Manhattan Cooling Towers Haven’t Submitted Tests to Detect Legionella

City regulations require buildings to self-report tests to the Department of Health, but many aren’t in compliance, including nine buildings on the UES that tested positive for the potentially deadly…

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Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 3w ago

From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...

15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections

Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.

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Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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@lucaswaldron.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW from @propublica.org: climate models rely on "carbon capture and sequestration" -- sucking carbon out of the air and injecting it underground -- but our reporting found that there is no conceivable way that it can work at scale. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work

As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...

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Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Worth remembering that the data center energy story is mainly a US story this decade. It's also, as a share of total power capacity added globally, not the main story. From BNEF's 2026 New Energy Outlook:

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Murphy Woodhouse@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the start of a potentially historic season, federal wildland firefighters report widespread understaffing, low morale, inadequate prioritization of prescribed fire and other serious issues. Add this to the long and growing list of reasons to be worried. (Survey: Grassroots Wildland Firefighters)

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Nina Jankowicz@ninajankowicz.com · 3mo ago

"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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