Busting another myth. This one on how much mining is needed for fossil fuels versus renewables.

We will need orders of magnitude fewer mines and orders of magnitude less mined material in a clean, renewable energy world.

www.youtube.com/shorts/8NZ0E...

There are strong indications that micro- and nanoplastics exposure negatively impacts human health, but a robust evidence base is lacking. A Review in Nature Medicine focuses on the current state of the science. go.nature.com/47H9Q3s #medsky 🧪

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.

“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

I really do love clouds.

The Trump administration has canceled the lease for NASA's top climate science modeling and monitoring lab, known as NASA GISS, at Columbia Univ. in NYC. The lab is going virtual as of May 31. (The lab is above the Seinfeld restaurant.) www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/c...

The three theories being bridged govern the motion of small aerosol particles in fluids. Aerosol scientists and many chemical engineers dealing with nanoparticles or nanoporous materials work at the length scale where the continuum assumption breaks down.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/loft...

Big (bad) news: the US Embassy air monitoring program webpage has been taken down: www.airnow.gov/internationa...

This erases ~17 years of a critical data source at ~80 US diplomatic posts around the world. Critically for the health of thousands of foreign services officers, critical for research..

The Copernicus image of the day shows the latest Saharan dust transport forecasted by #CopernicusAtmosphere last Friday.

Check our forecast charts here: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...

All the images: www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...

©European Union, CAMS, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

This is a very sad news. Jean was one of the founders of mass spectrometry, a big supporter of young researchers and women in science, a mentor to many of us, a wonderful person, and a dear friend. We will miss him.