They could have made this map any color.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 4w ago

Explosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Not just Europe, everyone’s productivity everywhere! I have air con at home and I work from home, but still, the Indian summer has been most unproductive for me.

Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last mo.

Well, well, well....economists have pulled their heads out of the sand and realised that extreme heat will have a big impact on economies Climate scientists, and others, have been saying this for decades There's a reason economics is called the dismal science www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

why is everyone hating on aircon? like it's not the best film ever made but it's an underrated fun romp and Nicolas Cage is at his most Nicolas Cage-y

NEW – Prof Detlef van Vuuren is the climate scientist most cited by the IPCC, according to an analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database. Read his full interview with Carbon Brief’s @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4uRxguM

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

Glaciologists, which would be the lowest altitude glacier in the world? (Outside of Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica)

'Like the Guardian list, we hope this Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 will spark both discovery and dissent. Let’s all read more books, from more places, from more writers.' www.anzliterature.com/feature/the-...

The Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 – Academy of New Zealand Literature

The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’

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Glaciologists, which would be the lowest altitude glacier in the world? (Outside of Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica)

Four years ago today. @geocron.bsky.social, Jeff Bond, Jackson Bodtker, and Holly Basiuk had the most incredible scientific experience any of us will ever have. Thread below. 🧪⚒️ #Solstice #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #NunChoGa

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Two years ago today I was part of something remarkable that still gives me goosebumps. 🧪⚒️

Happy #JuneSolstice! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! 🙂 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming sunlight during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Graphic can be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Shaming people for having air conditioning is stupid.

Latest essay from @70sbachchan.bsky.social and me on one of the things that really affects everything else: CHINESE MANUFACTURING phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Dawn of the Electric World Order | The Polycrisis

Global shockwaves from the war on Iran

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I was today years old when I learned there's CORN that makes SNOT so bacteria in the snot can fix nitrogen And it's just like, these big snotty things hanging off the corn. Thanks @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social I am a better person for knowing this www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus

This rare variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen, which could revolutionize farming

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This line from the WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 report baffles me: "During 1991–2025, Asia warmed more rapidly than the global land-and-ocean average" Isn't this true for any landmass? Land will be warmer than the global average, so why is it significant? wmo.int/news/media-c...

Extreme heat and rainfall, glacier loss and record ocean heat impact Asia in 2025

Paro, Bhutan (WMO) – Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll, according to a new...

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This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

To date, the adaptation needed to cope with this has not kept pace with this trajectory. We are, for the most part, completely unprepared for this rate of change.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2mo ago

The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold it to a data center developer for $10 million

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

if this is how it is going to go, it'll be game over for us in India.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My prediction is that we will never have enough CO₂ removal (CDR), so overshoot is not a thing. We will hit 1.5°C global warming by 2030, and every tonne of CO₂ we emit will make the world warmer. Where we stop is entirely up to us, but there’s no dialing down the temperature after that.

This is not “very strange” but a very shouty WTF! 🧵 Temps should below freezing -mean air temp Esperanza for June about -11°C, not +15°C 😱 Conditions should be frigid!!!! 🥶 It’s approaching midwinter ffs! Days are very short this far north in the Antarctic Peninsula ( ~5 hrs) 1/

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

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You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n... City of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves.

How one Oregon city has raised a billion dollars for climate change

The Portland Clean Energy Fund has raised a billion dollars for climate change action via a retail tax on large corporations in the city. Other cities are starting to shape similar funds.

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Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3mo ago

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Iran war has made Laos cut EV registration fee by 30% and increase ICE registration fee by 30%. Goal: cut petrol/diesel use. Govt agencies has stopped purchase of all ICE vehicles. www.eco-business.com/news/laos-sl...

Laos slashes EV fees, hikes petrol car charges to curb fuel use

Emergency measures include 30 per cent fee cut for EVs, fleet targets for transport firms and remote work for civil servants.

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