The Williamsburg needs to be renamed the Sonny Rollins Bridge.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 Scientific Excellence in Mentoring awardee Dorothy Peteet, Excellence in Technical Mentoring awardee James Ross, and Community Impact awardee Jacqueline Austermann for their outstanding contributions to LDEO community! ➡️ https://lamont.columbia.edu/about/lamont-awards

The satellite industry foresees hundreds of thousands or even millions of satellites orbiting the planet within the next ten years. What would that mean for Earth's climate? www.space.com/space-explor...

SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say

"Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants."

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‪...which continued in 2024 and especially 2025: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Happy to be part of this in @globalchangebio.bsky.social with Yang Chen & co

Columbia Climate School@climate.columbia.edu · 7mo ago

New analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years by Robert Field, Olivia Clifton, Konstantinos Tsigaridis of NASA GISS and co-authors shows that Canada's record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier skies: https://bit.ly/3NSuXro

This is a phenomenal paper. Up there with Cruz et al. 2012 'Anatomy of a catastrophic wildfire' in the detail and care put in

Neil Lareau@neillareau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Flattered to have the Editor's highlight featuring my recent spotting paper: Weather Radar Data Reveal the Dynamics of Rapidly Spreading Wildfires eos.org/editor-highl...

🔥New in IJWF: Zhao et al. evaluate two common tools for estimating fine dead fuel moisture. The Wiltronics meter performed best at low FMC, while the 10-h fuel stick often underestimated moisture and responded more slowly to environmental change. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1071/WF25174 #IJWildlandFire

Kaiwei Luo's second paper from his PhD thesis is now available in Science Advances. A weakened diurnal weather constraint leads to longer burning hours in North America www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Thermal sensing extends beyond hotspots🌍 FOREST-2, developed by OroraTech, detects both active fires and lower-intensity heat sources — helping researchers better track wildfire behaviour, monitor urban heat and understand how temperature extremes evolve. Read more🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off reut.rs/4tGPizG

Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off

Worried about wildfires sending claims soaring this year, Canada's property and casualty insurers are pushing owners to flood- and fire-proof ​homes and urging the government to take climate issues more seriously despite economic turmoil.

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I’m really, really pleased that this crucial work will continue www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death

Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change

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But if you look closely, there is a lot of biological activity: Erica australis resprouting, Narcissus_coronatus, Pterospartum tridentatum (resprouts & seedlings). Llamas de Cabrera, Aug 2025 fire, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌱🍁🌴 #botany wildfire #PlantBiology

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The 2025 fires in NW Iberia (Aug 2025) burned in very extreme conditions (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....). The landscape is still very black, 8 months after fire (eg, Llamas de Cabrera León, Spain). 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌱 wildfire

You know all those maps you see of snowpack conditions in the western U.S. (and Alaska)? In many cases, it is people going out there on the 1st day of each month to make the measurements. ❄️

Alaska Weather Facts - Measuring Alaska's Snow

YouTube video by National Weather Service Alaska Region

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Rockets...moon shots...

Robert Field@robertfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Crazy

Helen Shin@h-x-s.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wonderful visualization of the crowds of objects in orbit around Earth - with a quote from @planet4589.bsky.social in the title! It's a great companion piece to yesterday's article about Aarti Holla-Maini at the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs: www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥

Snowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States

Snowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States, Balik, Jared A, Coop, Jonathan D, Parks, Sean A

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Rod Schoonover-Rey@rodschoonover.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A brutal March heatwave in the West is accelerating snow drought, raising wildfire risk, and threatening water supplies. Some people talk about climate change as if it lives in the future. But it is posing ecological security risks now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Satellites revealed that the 2024 Amazon fires released far more carbon we thought: up to 3 times higher! Using a novel AI method, scientists analysed satellite data on carbon monoxide (as proxy for CO2) and found significant gaps between models/observations: www.esa.int/Applications...

This makes me super happy because WE ACT is awesome and the Champlain Hudson Power Express is awesome!

WE ACT for Environmental Justice@weact4ej.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BIG NEWS! WE ACT received a $100,000 gift from Champlain Hudson Power Express to build our Environmental Justice Center in Harlem — launching 2027! A permanent home for EJ advocacy, organizing, and youth leadership. Help make it real — donate at the link in our bio.

“The only place in Canada named after a science fiction hero”

Paul Voosen@voosen.me · 5mo ago

3-min 1970s vignette about Flin Flon!

That sounds good, but please less of your smoke doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

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Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Canada has what the world wants.    So we’re building new trade corridors that connect our manufacturers and producers to the ports they need to sell to the world.

ICYMI, the #MorrillFire (which began burning in the Nebraska Panhandle on 12 March) has burned nearly 549,000 acres -- making it the largest wildfire on record for the state of Nebraska. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #NEwx

Whoa

Cabin Radio@cabinradio.ca · 5mo ago

Mark Carney announced a huge new investment in the NWT, including money to build the Mackenzie Valley Highway, Taltson hydro expansion and Arctic Corridor.

For math, and anything where you learn from the grind of it

Ross Andersen@rossandersen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Very cool and important new fire data!

Christine Wiedinmyer@cwiedinm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It is great to be a part of this team to address the air quality emissions from fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). news.ucar.edu/133058/wildf...

Hot, dry, windy conditions are increasingly arising in multiple regions at the same time, setting the stage for simultaneous wildfires around the world, a study shows. via @vox.com

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once

Firefighters combat a grass fire in Alexandra, Australia, in January. Jay Kogler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images 

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V. cool data +: “Key unknowns include emission inventories for rockets and satellites, lack of a systematic observational survey of mesospheric metals, altitude-time ablation profiles, chemical lifetimes, particle size-composition distributions, and transport pathways into the lower stratosphere.”

Rafael Mentges@mentges.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper on the pollution of the upper atmosphere through de-orbiting satellites and space debris (in this case a Falcon 9 upper stage). "This new type of pollution has unknown consequences for the upper atmosphere and ozone layer."

I was happy to provide a quote about this very cool paper! Climate change is going to make fire-fighter sharing harder and create more transboundary smoke. In a really original way, this paper helps to understand the underlying conditions, and how they're changing.

Paige Vega@paigeblank.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...

Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality. With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

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Really can't make this stuff up I did not have a fast-tracked FCC application for an actual megaconstellation (1 million satellites) justified as "taking the first step towards becoming a Kardashev Il-level civilization" on my 2026 bingo card What are we doing friends