Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

"As fires grew larger and burned more intensely, recreational losses sharpened. Visitation dropped 15% to 20% at sites burned at higher severity. These declines lasted years." ICYMI — CIRES Visiting Fellow @ktmanley.bsky.social wrote about his research on fire & recreation @us.theconversation.com

Fire is transforming the US West’s public lands – research shows overlooked cost to recreation

Wildfires in Colorado are reshaping landscapes and visitor habits.

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🔥🚵 New preprint: severe wildfires drive multi-year recreation losses on western public lands. Prescribed fire doesn't. We need to integrate non-market benefits of nature into climate adaptation, they're foundational to well-being but routinely missing from how we plan. doi.org/10.22541/ess...

THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in Nature Climate Change, establishing the core principles of a post-growth climate mitigation scenario that can achieve rapid decarbonization and high well-being. nature.com/articles/s41...

I want to comment on a really ugly thing the FS Office of the Chief did today. Around 3:20 PM eastern; a snap e-mail announced our Forest Service reorganization. A snap meeting from 3:45 to 4 was presented— Chief’s first ever All Employee call. A link detailed certain USFS facilities to close.

Researcher Kyle Manley makes the case for leaving public lands as-is and how we can put a dollar value on ecological impact.

The cost of privatizing public land - Think

Researcher Kyle Manley makes the case for leaving public lands as-is and how we can put a dollar value on ecological impact.

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In case you missed it, this livestream discussion the astonishing and record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave and its "long tail" implications for snowpack, water supply, and wildfire risk was recorded live and is now available at the link below.

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On Friday, Mar 20 at noon Pacific Time, I'll have another live virtual office hour to discuss the now record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave. I'll focus on the extraordinary magnitude of warmth so far, plus the snowpack nosedive that has already resulted.

Big news: we just launched the Threatened Public Lands Tracker. It’s the most detailed interactive tool we’ve ever built showing exactly where our public lands are under threat, who’s behind it, and what’s being done. morethanjustparks.com/threatened-p... #nationalparks #publiclands

Threatened Public Lands Map | More Than Just Parks

Interactive map tracking current threats to America's public lands. Explore environmental challenges, report new threats, and take action to protect these precious landscapes.

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“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”

In 1953, Iran’s democratically-elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh was deposed in a CIA coup. Narges Bajoghli, a professor of Middle Eastern studies, explains how the coup shaped Iran’s current political landscape.

Congress is abusing the CRA to overturn public-land management plans that take years of tribal, public, scientific, and manager input, erased in days by a few political votes, and blocking any similar plans in the future. A completely anti-democratic takeover of public-land governance by congress.

Center for Biological Diversity@biologicaldiversity.org · 8mo ago

Congress has to stop attacking our #PublicLands. The latest: Senator Mike Lee is weaponizing the Congressional Review Act resolution in an attempt to wipe out protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. We have to stop this plan! Please submit a public comment ➡️ bit.ly/3N6OOmP

Environmental scientist Kyle Manley analyzed the costs and benefits of public land sell-offs. Altogether the ecosystems on these lands generate roughly $507.4 billion in benefits to the public every year. spklr.io/6009EDJl5 📊: Kyle Manley and Jen Christiansen

Public lands are more than resources or real estate. They hold clean water, cultural memory, biodiversity, and the quiet foundations of our collective well-being. I wrote a piece in @sciam.bsky.social reflecting on what’s at risk when we treat shared landscapes as disposable.

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

An environmental scientist’s analysis reveals who will win and who will lose in the push to put federal land into private hands

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has estimated that in the first two years of the war in Gaza, between 99,997 en 125,915 Palestinians have been killed, with 27% of the dead aged under 15 www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...

Dodental Gaza veel hoger dan gedacht: meer dan 100.000 Palestijnen gedood door Israël

Uit nieuw onderzoek van het onafhankelijke Max Planck Instituut voor Demografisch Onderzoek blijkt dat de situatie waarschijnlijk een stuk schrijnender is d...

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🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

🎉 New in PLOS Climate: my final dissertation chapter. Using citizen-science data + travel-cost + ML, we track non-urban recreation in South Africa and its non-market value under current and future conditions. Key: climate drives change and non-market values largely decrease: tinyurl.com/az756mew

Climate change impacts the non-market value of nature: A case study of birding cultural ecosystem services in South Africa

Climate change and human activities are increasingly straining global ecosystems, threatening the essential benefits - ecosystem services - they provide to humanity. Among these, cultural ecosystem se...

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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

A realllllly good TikTok explainer by historian Tad Stoermer on why the Gavin Newsoms and Ezra Kleins of the world are embracing Charlie Kirk’s project. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SDQSKD/

When establishment Democrats claimed common ground with Charlie Kirk this week, it raised a question I've been researching about a problem in American political culture, historically and right now: Do...

TikTok video by Tad Stoermer

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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

"We weren’t put here, in this place, in this time, just to lament about what could’ve been. We are here to take an active role in changing it. The future is not fixed, all is not lost."

barbarism critic@scarletred.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about how Greta Thunberg’s participation in the Freedom Flotilla represents the best of what it means to be human in this broken world www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/the-best-o...

Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...

Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year

Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.

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For this week's #HumansOfCIRES, meet Kyle Manley @ktmanley.bsky.social, a CIRES visiting fellow @earthlabcu.bsky.social. Kyle studies wildfire impacts and risk, he grew up south of Denver, and his favorite book is “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis." Read more: buff.ly/dPmkyoP

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The richest 1% hold 45% of wealth while 44% of humanity lives in poverty—endless capital accumulation drives us beyond habitable planetary limits. Capitalism isn’t broken, it’s working as designed; capital accumulation and environmental collapse won’t stop until we dismantle it: tinyurl.com/4n6s4p84

Oxfam International@oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 2y ago

Billionaire wealth is out of control, but we're not sitting back. The Takers have had their way too long, it’s time to prioritize makers. Our collective power is the real wealth. #TakersNotMakers #FightInequality Read #TakersNotMakers to learn more: https://buff.ly/42hcMRu

Wildlife contributes to human well-being and values in visible and invisible ways that are under-recognized or dominated by conflict narratives. We review these critical contributions and what research and policy is needed to protect them: www.nature.com/articles/s44...