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Mark Lubell
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Professor Mark Lubell co-directs the UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. Water, agriculture, climate, conservation, social science. Thinkology. Advocate for truth and evidence. https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/ .. more

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d
Sarcasm right?

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Another disappointing day in the obituaries 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 1d
Climate Change May Trigger Fatal Nest Competition Between Two Bird Species

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #behavior #reproduction🪺 #ClimateChange grrlscientist.medium.com/climate-chan...
Climate Change May Trigger Fatal Nest Competition Between Two Bird Species
Because climate change is causing nesting seasons overlap, serious conflicts over nest cavities transform cute little birds into vicious…
grrlscientist.medium.com

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Neil Ward @profneilward.bsky.social · 1d
"Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food" - says Joint Intelligence Cttee. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#afnnetwork.bsky.social
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
www.theguardian.com

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François Bareille @fbareille.bsky.social · 1d
Promise made, promise kept.
Here’s a short thread on our new Ecological Economics paper (with @mzavalloni.bsky.social ):
"The value of cooperation for biodiversity conservation policies"

👉Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl
e/pii/S0921800925003842

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sciencedirect.com

envpolicycenter.bsky.social
Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d
Water bankruptcy. In a world filled good news and peace(not), we might as well pile on. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/20/c...
The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences | CNN
Over-allocation of water, chronic groundwater depletion, pollution and climate change have pushed the world into a drastic situation, a new United Nations report finds.
edition.cnn.com

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NPR @npr.org · 2d
Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down. n.pr/4qz3iKP
Trump promised to cut energy bills in half. One year later, has he delivered?
Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down.
n.pr

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ferracimo.bsky.social @ferracimo.bsky.social · 2d
Worried about the role of science in a world on fire and under rising fascism? Then come to my lunch talk tomorrow, Jan 21 at 12 PM CET, with @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social on Researcher's Desk, where we'll talk about my new book Science in Resistance. Open to all! us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178
Notebook with info about my talk tomorrow, on Jan 21 at 12 PM on zoom Cover of my book Science in Resistance

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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 2d
Job alert! We're recruiting for a #lecturer in marine conservation to direct our new #Marine #Conservation MSc and have the ?pleasure of working with me 'cos I run the Wildlife Conservation MSc. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l... 🧪 We're friendly and you can still buy a house on an academic salary here!
www.jobs.ac.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d
Antarctic warming from fossil fuel burning is driving the fastest breeding shift ever seen in penguins. Gentoo, Adelie, and Chinstrap penguins are nesting up to 24 days earlier. This increases competition for food and space, helping Gentoos expand but threatening Chinstrap and Adelie.
Penguins bring forward breeding season as Antarctica warms: study
Penguins are bringing forward their breeding season at record rates as Antarctica rapidly warms due to climate change, according to research published by a global team of scientists on Tuesday.
www.rfi.fr

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Mariano Koen-Alonso (He/Him) @mkoenalonso.bsky.social · 2d
Things don’t look good on the climate front for 2026… and geopolitics would likely keep the climate crisis in the political back burner… don’t despair, just take a breath, put your head down and keep pushing forward.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
2026 will likely be among the hottest on record: Environment Canada | CBC News
Environment and Climate Change Canada released a new global forecast indicating that 2026 will likely be among the four hottest years on record.
www.cbc.ca

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 2d
PIK study @natfood.nature.com shows the ecological footprint from #diets

➡️Share of #climate gases private households EU: 23%
➡️Share in other indicators: up to 71%

Full value added tax on meat could be a first step towards pricing the environmental damages

www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 2d
New guest post!

In this interview, Antje Scharenberg and Chris Armstrong discuss the research and findings of their recent article in Environmental Politics: “Another ocean is possible”: thinking ocean justice beyond mastery.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/t...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d
Mozambique floods force many thousands to flee as rising waters cut off communities

- The country has been hit by frequent disasters that scientists say have been exacerbated by the #climatecrisis

HT @carbonbrief.org
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Mozambique floods force thousands to flee as rising waters cut off communities
The floods have directly impacted more than 620,000 people, with over 72,000 houses flooded.
www.reuters.com

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 2d
Good to see @seai-ie.bsky.social planning to introduce a new staged "retrofit passport" so that homeowners who can't do a deep retrofit, for whatever reason, can access good grants, including for windows & doors, and nearly €10k towards a heat pump.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
Higher retrofit grants to include 80pc subsidy for heat pumps
Homeowners could be about to benefit from thousands of euro being made available for energy upgrades to private homes, under new plans that are expected to announced by Minister for Climate, Environme...
www.independent.ie

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 2d
Which groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia?

📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise.

Key finding include 🧵

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d
Oceans carry 90% of global trade making them a frontline of geopolitics.

One step forward: the international High Seas Treaty, which goes into effect on Saturday.

buff.ly/eJRPZ1m
#polisky #oceans
Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy
The expansion of Arctic shipping, scramble for seafloor mining and overfishing are all straining international relationships. But the powers of diplomacy go beyond ocean treaties.
buff.ly

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6d
In good news, your advocacy for science funding is paying off! Congress has just rejected the massive cuts to NASA's 2026 budget.

(Sadly, they didn't include a provision for saving @ncar-ucar.bsky.social but we use this win to keep fighting!)
You just saved NASA's budget
Here's what Congress rejected of the draconian cuts faced by NASA in FY 2026.
www.planetary.org

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Dr Vincent Raoult @sawsharkman.bsky.social · 7d
Reducing vessel speed in key areas can significantly reduce the risk of ship collisions with whales. Bonus: this also helps whale sharks, and also does a lot to reduce emissions near coasts.
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 8d
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

envpolicycenter.bsky.social
Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 7d
Fascinating paper that shows using in science has created a massive collective action problem. Using AI enhances individual careers, but reduces scope of science and collaborations. So the individual incentives are reducing the collective good of scientific knowledge. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 7d
If you're interested, the full @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report is here climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Silvia Secchi

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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management Adam B. Pollack https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-0591 adam.b.pollack@dartmouth.edu, Lisa Auermuller https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3696-6491, Casey D. Burleyson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-9361, Jentry Campbell https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8615-5094, Madison Condon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8764-2249, Courtney Cooper, Matteo Coronese https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4134-1971, Sönke Dangendorf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3679-5234, James Doss-Gollin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3428-2224, Prabhat Hegde https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-346X, Casey Helgeson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5333-9954, Robert E. Kopp https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4016-9428, Jan Kwakkel, Corey Lesk, Justin Mankin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2520-4555, Robert E. Nicholas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-2574, Jennie Rice https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-9456, Samantha Roth https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-4426, Vivek Srikrishnan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0049-3805, Moira Scheeler https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9675-7694, Nancy Tuana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5449-6097, Chris Vernon, Mengqi Zhao https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5385-2758, and Klaus Keller https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5451-8687 -20Authors Info & Affiliations Edited by Stephen Pacala, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; received November 25, 2024; accepted December 5, 2025 January 14, 2026 123 (3) e2422157123

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 8d
✈️ #AtmosphericRiver tracking is going global! 🌍 Led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social & @noaa.gov, the AR Reconnaissance program is expanding worldwide, partnering w/ research teams across the globe to sharpen forecasts of extreme weather and better protect communities. @financialtimes.com shares more. ⬇️
European aircraft to track ‘rivers in the sky’ blamed for flooding
Streams of high-altitude water were behind UK storms such as Bert in 2024 and are expected to intensify with climate change
www.ft.com

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 8d
I'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...

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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 8d
Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 13d
If you want a quick introduction to the theoretical ideas that I work on, you can listen to this:
www.youtube.com/live/16alGWS...
Art of Science Podcast | Episode 1: Dr. Mark Lubell and Dr. Francesca Pia Vantaggiato
YouTube video by Art of Science Podcast
www.youtube.com

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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 13d
#Dogs fed on premium, meat-rich #petfood can have a bigger dietary #carbon impact than their owners. Wet, raw & meat-rich products are linked to substantially higher GHG #emissions than dry #dogfood; an increase in #plantbased dog foods is likely to reduce emissions: www.ed.ac.uk/news/climate...
Climate impact of dogs’ dinner revealed | News | The University of Edinburgh
Dogs fed on premium, meat-rich pet food can have a bigger dietary carbon pawprint than their owners, according to the largest study into dog food’s climate impact.
www.ed.ac.uk

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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com · 13d
Nature Climate Change January issue is online, content includes:

😀 new format "Solutions in Practice"
▶️ irreversibility in climate action
🏞️ changing pace of Arctic rivers
🥵 increasing human heat mortality
📈 revised reporting of US corporate emissions

& much more www.nature.com/nclimate/vol...
The image shows the January cover of journal, with the journal name over an image of an electric vehicle charger. The line "Positive progress on climate action" describes the cover.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 14d
Protecting mangroves is a crucial step to lower planet-warming carbon emissions.

These ecosystems store up to 1,000 tonnes of carbon per hectare in their biomass and soils.

More info on the many benefits of mangroves: https://bit.ly/3KMibE0

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 14d
Also appreciate the shout out to the role of collaboration here, which is a necessary ingredient in all these cases

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 14d
Great success story for salmon restoration. “If you (un)build it they will come” is at least partially true for this resilient species. Climate change remains the bogeyman www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
Record Returns: 2,100 Salmon Spawned in Putah Creek
A record-breaking 2,100 Chinook salmon returned to spawn in restored Putah Creek this fall. UC Davis fish biologists and partners are tracking and monitoring the run.
www.ucdavis.edu