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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · Aug 22

🌍 Our new review shows how: (1) Climate shocks hit food, water + health systems (2) All forms of malnutrition are at risk (3) Near-term events + long-term warming both drive risks (4) Building resilience through food, social + nutrition systems is urgent. 🔗 shorturl.at/WmZki

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 30

HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Jul 15

The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

Close up of the 1865 Viele topographical map of manhattan showing the stream beneath 28th st and 7th avenue https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~305704~90076084:Topographical-Map-of-the-City-of-Ne

Stream flows east to west from higher ground btw 25th and 30th street and 5th and 6th avenues.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 15

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Jun 17

A great event at the New York Public Library. Congrats, Kate - I’m thrilled to get my signed copy!

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CMIP ─ Coupled Model Intercomparison Project @wcrp-cmip.org · May 27

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

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Natassa Romanou @aromanou.bsky.social · May 31

Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 22

If you are looking for climate visualizations using a "pre-industrial" baseline (1850-1900) for calculating anomalies, I update quite a few each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... (updated through April 2025)

Climate change indicators

All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · May 22

Full sympathy for brillant climate scientists at NASA/GISS, literally expelled from their building. I still remember the depth of stimulating scientific discussions during my 1997 visit.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 17

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

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Kara D. Lamb @karadlamb.bsky.social · May 15

www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

This iconic NASA office changed climate science forever. DOGE plans to kill it

The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate change.

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · May 13

One of my favorite websites is the 2m temperature anomaly at climate reanalyzer. I’ve found memory is just short enough that people do not quite remember what a given day (eg May 13th) should feel like, so we do not recognize warming in transitional seasons. climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-we...

Climate Reanalyzer

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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.bsky.social · May 12

Will you live an unprecedented life?

In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...

AgML Info Page

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Apr 28

Excited for publication of our new piece (led by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social) describing vast potential and substantial challenges at the intersection of process-based crop modeling & machine learning. @agmip.bsky.social AGML team has identified many opportunities to merge existing & new expertises

Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning

Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...

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Gatien Falconnier @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social · Apr 23

Achieving similar (or greater?) crop yield with less mineral fertiliser and pesticides? this new paper proposes a useful framework – with examples - to quantify the contribution of ecosystem services.

Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · Apr 22

In a new paper, we propose the 'ecological yield gap' as a framework to strengthen collaboration between agronomists and ecologists in our quest to enhance on-farm ecosystem services in ways that effectively sustain crop yields while minimising input use:
doi.org/10.1016/j.gf...
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Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs

Sustainable production of sufficient and healthy food requires efficient use of agricultural inputs. In many regions of the world with intensive agric…

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · Apr 22

Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Apr 14

NASA SVS is a massive benefit to everything we do at NASA, helping us scientists communicate our findings in understandable, accessible, and creative ways that show off the wonder of our world and the amazing power of NASA capabilities!

Mark SubbaRao @marksubbarao.bsky.social · Apr 13

Museum and Planetarium Friends,

Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact.

Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov).

Thank you!

Scientific Visualization Studio

The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Science ...

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Apr 9

Important perspective on food systems risks given accumulating and overlapping present day challenges. Without coordinated planning, individual responses may trip all over each other

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 9

1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...

Investor Memo - Inside Track.pdf

drive.google.com

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thrilled to be one of many virtual participants on first day of #AgMIP10 at CIMMYT for packed agenda of plenary panels, working sessions and paper and poster presentations. Big challenges to food and Ag systems need bold scientific advances and collaborations across borders and disciplines.

Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project @agmip.bsky.social · Apr 1

#AgMIP10 is underway! This morning, we welcomed 160+ people both in-person and online to CIMMYT in El Batán, Mexico. To view the agenda and learn more about the various sessions taking place throughout the week, go to AgMIP.org/AgMIP10

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Mar 14

Dangerous wildfire outbreak unfolding, as predicted, across Southern Plains amid widespread wind gusts of 70-90 mph. In side-by-side satellite images below, numerous fast-spreading fires (black areas, left) & widespread blowing dust (brown areas, right) are apparent. #TXwx #OKwx

Current satellite snapshot depicting numerous large and fast-spreading fires (black dots and splotches) across the Southern Plains, especially in Texas and Oklahoma.

Current satellite snapshot depicting a massive dust storm across the Southern Plains, especially in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as a line of developing severe thunderstorms to the east (over Missouri) expected to lead to an intense tornado outbreak later to the east.

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Mar 11

Compound-events community! Please join us Aug 4-6 in Portland, OR for a workshop connecting research and practice through systems-focused storylines. More info at cccriskworkshop2025.org, including a chance to provide input on priority themes. We're also on Bluesky: @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Mar 10

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.

www.science.org/content/arti...

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position

Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

www.science.org

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Mar 9

A study in Nature Food assesses the future climatic suitability of global croplands for 30 major food crop types, quantifying the changes in potential food crop diversity given climate conditions across four global warming levels. https://go.nature.com/3Dp5LEk #foodstudies 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the lowest global warming level that would push current crop production into considerable risk.

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Alex Ruane @alexruane.bsky.social · Jan 23

Fortunate to attend last night’s early access party for MoMA Pirouette exhibit featuring @edhawkins.org Climate Stripes and Climate Spiral alongside other iconic designs (like original I❤️NY, crocs and first emojis). I can’t share inside photos but climate stripes prominently visible from 54th St!

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