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Exclusive from @nytimes this morning: some (but not all) of the Ocean Observatories Initiative buoys and gliders are headed back to OR/WA coast today. @NSF says they don't have enough money to put back ones in NC and AK. My report here:
nytimes.com/2026/10/03/clima…
Injured Leopard’s 200-Mile Trek Suggests Hope for a Species nytimes.com/2026/10/30/clima… via @NYTimes
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El Niño is causing marine disruptions along the West Coast, affecting squid, salmon and Dungeness crab.
According to NOAA, ocean temperatures off the Pacific Northwest coast have jumped 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average. wapo.st/4e18iDQ
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🌈🇺🇸 BRANDON MCNULTY 🇺🇸🌈
Unbelievable scenes as the American claims the 2026 Men Elite UCI Road World Championships title 🤯
Just WOW! 👏
#Montréal2026
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new from me and @DJMatthewDalton: wsj.com/arts-culture/books/o…
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As the new Roman Space Telescope opens its eye on the sky, its home base on Earth is spiraling. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center built Roman, but workers there say deep cuts threaten Goddard’s ability to handle future big space science projects.
spklr.io/6012ET0qs
As the Roman space telescope prepares to capture the universe, changes at @NASAGoddard mean uncertainty for future science missions. @sciam scientificamerican.com/artic…
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The sci-writing biz is looking bad after Scientific American was sold (half the staff gone, salaries cut) in June, following layoffs of science/environment writers at Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and CBS News...
(NiemanLab) niemanlab.org/2026/09/is-sci…
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Water experts warn that the Colorado River’s flow may soon fall below a critical threshold at Lee’s Ferry, a bellwether river bend in Arizona that the 1922 Colorado River Compact says tells if there's enuf water, triggering Supreme Court lawsuits...
(CPR) cpr.org/2026/09/09/colorado-…
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El Niño is leading to a sudden increase in sea level along the California coast, by up to a foot. This dramatically increases the state's vulnerability to flooding, esp. when winter storms hit. cnn.com/climate/el-nino-cali… (Img shows the coastal Kelvin wave)
ALT Image showing how Kelvin waves moved across the Pacific and then up from South America to North America between April 16 and September 10, increasing ocean levels as they went. Red represents higher-than-normal sea surface heights. Some data for September is based on forecasts. Courtesy Dillon Amaya.
Thoughtful look at new evidence, and uncertainty, about whether climate change is supercharging this year's El Niño by @whereishayley ihttps://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-09-04/research-suggests-global-warming-has-increased-super-el-ninos-punch
Check out this deep dive by @SMeichtry and Ed Ballard into how Europe's hottest summer transformed French vineyards, English gardens, and scorched the continent's economy.
wsj.com/world/europe/the-sum…
Bigger, hotter forest fires are transforming conifer forests into shrubland across a large area of the Western U.S. Here's a look at one such forest in California's central Sierras @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/08/23/clima…
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In parts of the west, record heat and fires mean the end of forests: "Recent studies estimate that as much as 40 percent of Western conifer forests will turn into shrubland by 2100 as a result." @eniiler @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/08/23/clima…
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An investigation revealed that glyphosate is being sprayed in California forests at record levels by timber companies and the U.S. Forest Service. to.pbs.org/4xgOgN6
Here’s a look at Dragonfly, the last big planetary mission in NASA’s pipeline. It’s a nuclear-powered copter built to search for signs of life on Titan: ‘A lot’s riding on it’ latimes.com/science/story/20…
Former colleague @scottmcalvert with another banger of a story, this one from the Chesapeake Bay: wsj.com/lifestyle/how-to-doc…
