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Carlos Carroll
@carloscarroll.bsky.social
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Conservation biologist, Klamath Center for Conservation Research. Climate adaptation/conservation planning, @adaptwest.bsky.social, http://adaptwest.databasin.org

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Carlos Carroll @carloscarroll.bsky.social · Apr 21
In a new column in @us.theconversation.com , we discuss the urgency and complexity of crafting conservation strategies for the diversity of old-growth forest ecosystems, which are under attack by the Trump administration:
theconversation.com/wide-variety...
Wide variety of old-growth ecosystems across the US makes their conservation a complex challenge
Effective conservation of old-growth ecosystems will work best if it considers their varied ecology.
theconversation.com
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 7d
We made history together! Because of supporters from across the state, my campaign secured enough nomination signatures to qualify in less than 24 hours. (1/3🧵)
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NPR @npr.org · 8d
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 11d
Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds.

The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 18d
'Wildfires are just the beginning,' Canada's climate goals are in jeopardy - NOW Toronto
->Now Toronto | #Wildfire #ClimateGoal #Forest | More from BigEarthData.ai
'Wildfires are just the beginning,' Canada's climate goals are in jeopardy - NOW Toronto
Canadian researchers are sounding the alarm about the country’s worsening climate crisis after a new report found that Canada has barely reduced its carbon emissions in 2024 and is predicting that the country won’t reach its 2030 emission targets. On...
nowtoronto.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 19d
How hoverflies connect distant plant populations across Europe
->Earth.com | More info from BigEarthData.ai
How hoverflies connect distant plant populations across Europe
On a remote oil rig in the North Sea, an unexpected discovery has shed light on the surprising reach of one of nature’s smallest pollinators. Migratory hoverflies, often overlooked compared to bees and butterflies, are proving themselves capable of extraordinary...
www.earth.com
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 20d
Ted Cooke, whose nomination was rescinded by the Trump administration: "I’ve been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency because of party politics and maybe Colorado River basin intrigues." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/bure...
White House scraps water expert's nomination as states hash out Colorado River plan
A veteran water expert from Arizona says his nomination has been pulled to lead the federal agency overseeing water management in the western U.S.
apnews.com
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 21d
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21d
For folks in the NW concerned about continued availability of federal climate tools and resources, check out my webinar next week w/ @guillaume-mauger.bsky.social:

Taking stock of available resources for understanding and responding to climate risks in Washington and the Northwest.

Register here 👇
Our Climate Future Webinars | Climate Impacts Group
A CIG Webinar SeriesWe’re building a just and resilient world where people and nature thrive in a changing climate. This new webinar series will expand access to 30 years of research, data, and tools,...
cig.uw.edu
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22d
It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents.

But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · Sep 4
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 29
✅ We have a new study out this week, which projects changes in cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning days across the Western United States, along with the associated risk of lightning-ignited wildfires (LIW).

+ #OpenAccess Paper (@agu.org): doi.org/10.1029/2025...
+ Summary: news.wsu.edu/press-releas...
Screenshot of Figure 2c in Kalashnikov et al. (2025, Earth's Future), which shows CESM2 ensemble distribution of projected changes in CG lightning and LIW-risk days averaged across ecoprovinces. Horizontal lines within boxplots indicate medians and whiskers represent spread of the 50 ensemble members. Text along the bottom shows ensemble-mean changes, with * indicating that a majority of grid cells have >75% ensemble agreement on the sign of change in that ecoprovince.
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Reposted by Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Carlos Carroll

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Aug 28
New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN
A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.
www.cnn.com
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Aug 28
New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices."

Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
bit.ly
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Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Julie L. Lockwood, Juan Cole , and 1 more

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WBUR @wbur.org · Aug 27
“This is just another way to stop science,” said Bethany Bradley, the center’s co-director. The Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center is 1 of 9 regional hubs across the country that helps state and local partners develop plans to adapt wildlife, water and land to the effects of climate change.
Amherst climate science center could close as feds freeze funding
“This is just another way to stop science,” said Bethany Bradley, the center’s co-director. The Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center is one of nine regional hubs across the country that helps s...
www.wbur.org
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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · Aug 1
Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a 'farce' full of misinformation
->The Guardian | #TrumpFascism #Science #Misinformation #Climate #NoDecency | More info from EcoSearch
Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a 'farce' full of misinformation
A new Trump administration report which attempts to justify a mass rollback of environmental regulations is chock-full of climate misinformation, experts say. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows...
www.theguardian.com
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Jul 29
Today we were denied entry to an ICE facility in Baltimore where were exercising our oversight role as Members of Congress. The law is clear: ICE is REQUIRED to let us into these facilities.

They just don't want the American people to see what's happening behind closed doors.
We were denied entry into an ICE facility in Baltimore
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 20
i’m getting van hollen pilled
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 20
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · Jul 12
USFS is converting timber sales to 'digital tree marking', which means loggers, not trained federal foresters, get to choose which trees to take. All in the name of increasing timber outputs, w/no understanding or regard for ecological concerns. What could go wrong? 🌍 www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency...
Going digital | US Forest Service
www.fs.usda.gov
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jul 3
NEW: per multiple sources, apparently there may be punishment/retaliation coming for EPA employees who signed the Declaration of Dissent this week. People are starting to get letters putting them on administrative leave, seems like potentially targeted at those who signed with their names.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jul 3
Not cool!
Sources Say Zeldin's EPA Is Retaliating Against Declaration Signers
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 2
"The diminution and marginalization of science are thus central parts of the erosion of democracy itself."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Will we habituate to the decline of democracy?
The recent attack on science in the US is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining democracy. In a healthy democracy, public policy is guided by evidence, and truth is the shared foundat...
www.science.org
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · Jul 2
Scientists are pondering potential non-federal alternatives for the National Climate Assessment. AGU/AMS have already announced one initiative -- and there's other historical precedents for major efforts to keep stymied federal science reports alive. My story:

www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump uprooted a major climate effort. Scientists are fighting back.
The future of the National Climate Assessment is uncertain, so researchers are looking to write an alternative version that could serve as a substitute.
www.eenews.net
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 2
Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear
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Conservation Science and Practice @conservationsp.bsky.social · Jul 1
New study by Contreras-Moreno et al. shows jaguars in Calakmul (S. Mexico) have low densities & avoid roads/edges. Males & females separate in space/time. Forest integrity is key! 🐆🌿
📖 doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Population trends of jaguars in a tropical forest in southern Mexico
Jaguar density in the largest population in Mesoamerica was similar among sexes but affected by distance from the borders. Overall, jaguars segregate in space and time, highlighting the importance of...
doi.org
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Jun 30
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is home to tens of thousands of caribou, migratory birds, and fish. The Trump administration’s new plan could open 82% of this fragile landscape to oil and gas development. Public comment ends on Tuesday.

An ecologist explains the consequences: buff.ly/kz1lGmQ
The Trump administration plans to open parts of the ‘special areas,’ shown here, that were designated to protect wildlife in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, including in the fragile Colville River and Teshekpuk Lake regions. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 30
i think that democrats should be preparing for the next time they win power but honestly, calling it "project 2029" speaks to a lack of imagination with regard to the task at hand.
Sound Familiar? Democrats Lay Groundwork for a ‘Project 2029’
www.nytimes.com
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Jun 30
BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.

This is what you get when you try to access them online
An error message reads: Safari can't find the server "nca2023.globalchange.gov"
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