New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

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@caltech.edu partners with NASA to continue the OCO missions. Caltech’s unique relationship with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will allow us to continue to produce these important records of the Earth’s changing carbon cycle. To learn more about these sensors and data, visit oco.caltech.edu

NASA Selects Caltech to Operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatories

The missions provide information about plant productivity and ecosystem health from farmlands to tropical and high-latitude forests, and the uptake and release of carbon dioxide globally.

caltech.edu

Ah missed the story about Turkmenistan's giant gas leak in 2021 that we covered. Satellites are amazing, when used well! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New Climate Satellite Spotted Giant Methane Leak as It Happened

Equipment and software operated by GHGSat picked up eight simultaneous plumes from a field in Turkmenistan.

bloomberg.com

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

theguardian.com

Caltech, IPAC and our workforce at NASA JPL is proud to be a part of this extraordinary mission. Go Roman, Go NASA! Read more: www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...

Had questions. Got answers. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...

My research group is looking to hire a postdoctoral scholar. Come work with us. I've listed details on my site: annmariecarlton.com/postdoctoral...

Postdoctoral Scholars - Open Ranks 2026-27

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my group at UC Irvine in Fall 2027 to work on the Coupled Tipping Dynamics of Ocean Circulation and Ice Sheets – details in the attachment below. Please share the position with your networks!

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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This amazing visual from NASA Earth Observatory shows a summer-long "heat tsunami" over Europe. insideclimatenews.org/news/2108202...

@caltech.edu partners with NASA to continue the OCO missions. Caltech’s unique relationship with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will allow us to continue to produce these important records of the Earth’s changing carbon cycle. To learn more about these sensors and data, visit oco.caltech.edu

NASA Selects Caltech to Operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatories

The missions provide information about plant productivity and ecosystem health from farmlands to tropical and high-latitude forests, and the uptake and release of carbon dioxide globally.

caltech.edu

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Mark Thiemens has received the Magellanic Premium, America's oldest medal. Thiemens was recognized for groundbreaking isotope research that transformed the study of climate change, planetary evolution and more. https://bit.ly/3U6OyYg

Oxidized nitrogen cycling in the troposphere is complex! Out today, a paper led by former PhD student Ishir summarizes our current understanding of this budget and cycling. acp.copernicus.org/articles/26/...

Characterizing the global tropospheric budget of oxidized nitrogen (NOy)

Abstract. Nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) in the troposphere form an array of secondary pollutants that are detrimental to air quality, ecosystems, and climate. The family of reactive oxidized nitrog...

acp.copernicus.org

Every assignment produces two things: the paper turned in now, and the judgment the student builds for later. AI can raise the first while hollowing out the second—and only one shows up in the grade. So I need to redesign my courses around that fact, and that is only one part—the assessment... 1/

Here in Academia, “AI” Has Arrived for Software Coding, for Summarization & Search, for Writing Prose, & for Assessment: CHART OF THE DAY

Text got cheap. judgment didn’t. How I hope to teach in 2027: AI has arrived for coding, search, prose, & assessment — three opportunities, and one problemtunity...

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“Evidence keeps accumulating that LLMs are a powerfully useful technology for people who already know what they're talking about, and a dangerous outsourcing of cognitive function for people who don't.”

AI is making everything worse

The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.

doomsdayscenario.co

Charge your EV in the afternoon on a weekend and you will emit less than 1/4 the CO2 compared with plugging it in at night. @caiso.com www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

MIT is hiring in planetary science! There is a deep pool of talent out there, especially in exoplanets, so I'm hoping for a flood of applicants to this (these) Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science positions. eaps.mit.edu/about/employ... I am hoping we can get two hires out of this.

It's ENSO-forecast day at NOAA — the perfect day for an ENSO announcement of our own. Starting next week, we're taking baby steps toward rebooting the ENSO Blog, which ran on Climate(.)gov from 2014–2025. 🌎️🧪 [1/4]

La NASA ha seleccionado hoy como "foto del día" la de Zaragoza con dos eclipses: el del cielo y el reflejado en el río Ebro science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

@acs.org Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant for postdoctoral researchers and new faculty members. Awardees may receive up to $125,000 to support a postdoctoral fellow or associate for two years.

US GEO folks: You've got NSF questions, we (hopefully) have answers. Join us for a webinar Sept 15 at 1p Eastern: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences

Join directorate leadership for updates and information.

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McGill Assistant Professor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Oceanography & Earth Systems We seek candidates who will pursue research in physical oceanography with a strong modelling, observational and/or theoretical component. Review of applications begins 15 Oct. 2026. Questions addressed […]

Roundabouts, lower speed limits, and camera enforcement would save 1000s of lives. ourworldindata.org/britain-safe...

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.

ourworldindata.org

We are hiring a new physics/photonics editor at @science.org — please spread the word! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

recruiting.ultipro.com

“An exclusive focus on the data helps one rise above the politics.” Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o...

Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61

She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

nytimes.com

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

Out of this whole vast universe, you and I and everyone we know live at a time and place where this utter magic is happening.

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 4w ago

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

Aug update from ECMWF predictive ensemble is genuinely extraordinary from extreme #ElNiño perspective. One implication: it is now indicating not only 70-100% odds of above avg winter precip California-wide, but also 70-100% odds of DJF 26-27 being among the top 20% of wettest CA winters (!).

I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at Carnegie Science, now based at Caltech in Pasadena. If you're interested in land-atmosphere interactions and how they're influenced on small scales by microclimates, please take a look at the ad! apply.interfolio.com/190703