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Giuliana Viglione

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ocean-lover and science journo. associate editor @carbonbrief.org & senior editor @theopennotebook.bsky.social

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 11/06/2026
Breaking: National Weather Service declares El Nino is here and has a high chance to become very strong, ranking among the strongest on record. More info: www.capitalweather.com/weather-serv...
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Weather Service declares El Niño is here and predicts it will become historically strong
In the Mid-Atlantic, El Niños tend to boost winter precipitation.
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Jude Isabella @judeisabella.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Last week the @biographic.bsky.social team learned that, owing to an ongoing deficit, the California Academy of Sciences will no longer provide us with financial support. We're reaching out to foundations that support environmental journalism. We've got plans, we just need some help!
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/02/2026
So furious at all the "just asking questions" reporters who have helped pave the way to this moment. I don't even have words.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/02/2026
NEW – Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/11Rtah7
US President Donald Trump at the White House on 12 February 2026. Credit: Will Oliver / Alamy Stock Photo
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thinking once again about Jeff Bezos's giant boat's giant boat
Mr. Bezos’ vessel is a sailing yacht, a departure from the diesel-powered, floating palaces popular with other billionaires. But it is still massive. At 417 feet, Koru is the world’s largest sailing yacht, according to Boat International, and it cost an estimated $500 million to build, Bloomberg reported.Koru will be trailed by Abeona, a 246-foot support vessel. Superyachts often have support vessels following along behind them. These “shadows,” as they are colloquially known, are for the “toys” — the ATVs, supercars, seaplanes, motorcycles, smaller boats, scuba gear, personal submarines and even helicopters that pleasure boaters might bring on a trip. According to its builder, this model of boat can carry these gadgets along with dozens of crew members. (Ms. Sanchez flies helicopters, and the couple was recently photographed taking a helicopter to board Abeona and then Koru.)

Abeona, a motor yacht, will have enough range to follow Koru from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean — a common course for yachts — on a single tank of gas.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Bhattacharya, a moment ago: "What you've been seeing in the press is that there have been funding cuts. There haven't been funding cuts. What there has been is a change in agency priorities." Our year in numbers begs to differ www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/01/2026
Relying on solely adjacent property owners to clear sidewalks is a recipe for an inaccessible walking network.
A kid shown from rear, looking at a snow mound taller than her. Visible past the snow mound is a crosswalk and ped signal
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/01/2026
Probably the most successful piece of legislation in US history, measured by social benefit generated per dollar spent. Also wildly popular, across demographics. Without any public discussion or consultation of Congress, the Trump administration has effectively killed it.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Record warmth across much of the West this winter has left the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains with very little snow. “That is the classic global warming mountain snowpack signature.” @weatherwest.bsky.social Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com
Sierra Nevada snowpack stands at about 56% of average for this time of yearThe snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is one of the smallest recorded in the last three decades.
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 09/01/2026
HNY! we digested what Trump's latest dagger to global climate diplomacy could mean for us all
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Today from @scottpwaldman.bsky.social, who reveals that the Trump admin has tapped Judith Curry, & potentially other authors of the DOE's recent misinformation-filled climate report, to helm the next NCA. Other authors could include Ryan Maue + Grok. Yup, that Grok. www.eenews.net/articles/its...
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It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
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Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 18/12/2025
@ncar-ral.bsky.social President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at #AGU25 Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
When I asked the Trump administration about plans to continue funding these NTD programs, I got a screenshot of an NPR story from earlier this year headlined "Farewell to USAID." Above the screenshot was their official comment: "What do you think farewell means?" www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that
The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 09/11/2025
#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight") Proposed late additions to agenda: * trade * finance * deforestation * ambition * reporting Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!) This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵 1/
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow. Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”. @yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽‍♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
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Siri Carpenter @siricarpenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you're an early-career journalist, consider applying for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's paid, mentored fellowship and follow in the footsteps of @katherinejwu.com, @janehu.bsky.social, @sciwriabdul.bsky.social, @1juliarosen.bsky.social, @celiaford.bsky.social and many more! Deadline: 10/31.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
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Giuliana Viglione @giulianaviglione.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A screenshot from the show Arrested Development. The background is white and in black text it says "footage not found".
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 22/08/2025
An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
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Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
FREE DC.
Massive “FREE DC” flag projected onto building with Buck Hill mural in D.C.
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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Georgetown?
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2025
NEW – UN report: Five charts explaining the rise of global food insecurity | @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/LhONOi6
Number of undernourished people, globally, from 2005-24 (left) and the prevalence of undernourishment (right) for the world (red), Africa (dark blue), Asia (blue), Latin America and the Caribbean (light blue) and Oceania (cyan) over the same time period. Credit: Carbon Brief, based on the UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (2025)
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Chat is it a good idea to divert more than half of the soybean oil we produce in the United States to feed vehicles instead of people, necessitating more soy-related deforestation in other countries to supply the world’s growing demand for soy as food and feed?
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Biofuel demand to soak up more than half of US soyoil production next year, USDA says
U.S. biofuel makers will consume more than half of all soybean oil produced in the United States next year as a recent flurry of federal policy moves has transformed the sector, including higher blending mandates and curbs on foreign biofuel imports and feedstocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
i mean, also a blow to those of us who would like to be told about impending hurricanes
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
All of this AND food systems are the #1 driver of pandemic risk! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Shot/chaser
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/05/2025
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported." nsidc.org/data/user-re...
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 02/05/2025
Our journalism internship is back for another year! Come work with me and the whole @carbonbrief.org team Paid at London living wage. Happy to answer any q’s
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/05/2025
I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
huge news from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the coming bloodbath at the energy department more than 2,500 agency staff asking to resign via buyouts would gut agency programs read the full story and share it widely please heatmap.news/politics/doe...
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The Coming Bloodbath at the Department of Energy
More than 2,500 employees have applied for a buyout program. The departures, if approved, could gut the agency’s in-house bank and manufacturing office.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One-third of soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change in 2012 #climatecrisis Story by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/one-third-of...
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‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change - Carbon Brief
Climate change was responsible for just over one-third of the simultaneous soya bean crop failures across Argentina, Brazil and the US in 2012
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My personal take is that I really feel for these students. They went from COVID to this mess. Like many of the folks we spoke to, I'm also very worried about who'll end up leaving science as opportunities continue to disappear.
"I didn’t get a prom; I didn’t get my high school graduation; my freshman year of college was fully online. . . . It feels really cruel that these next 4 years, we’re kind of going through a situation that’s limiting us." Anonymous student, applicant who was accepted to a PhD program and then moved to a waitlist
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🆕 The fight for a new nature fund brought #COP16 talks to a halt in Colombia last year. A week before talks resume in Rome, a "reflection note" from Susana Muhamad – whose COP16 presidency has been under a cloud after her resignation – suggests a way out. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b0ca/7...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪
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NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard
Some researchers at NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion in science.
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 14/02/2025
In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24 buff.ly/42Rqf2D
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/02/2025
NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬] [HT @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social‬]
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So far, the president’s freeze on climate and infrastructure law spending has been covered as a constitutional issue. But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/tru...
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The Next Front of Trump’s Renewables War Is Contract Law
And that’s on top of the constitutional questions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12/02/2025
Super thrilled Carbon Brief's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted for "Environment Journalist of the Year" at the Press Awards, widely seen as UK journalism's 'Oscars'. He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Surely if we don't plan for the future, it just won't arrive? h/t @heatmap.news
The Department of Transportation this week moved to carry out some of President Trump’s executive orders aimed at eliminating all Biden-era policies that “reference or relate in any way” to climate change, “greenhouse gas” emissions (quotes are theirs), and environmental justice. A memorandum from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy gave all administrations and agencies operating under DOT purview 10 days to produce a written report listing any policies relating to these climate issues and then another 10 days to terminate those policies. Duffy’s order also canceled a 2023 DOT policy that required all agencies to consider climate change adaptation and resilience in planning. The DOT employs 55,000 people across various bureaus including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, and many others.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 31/01/2025
The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sobering. When I talk to people about long-term bird population declines in N America, I mention that the main cause is habitat loss, not climate change - yet. But new research shows that climate change is causing bird declines even in otherwise pristine places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🧪The CDCs weekly science report is indefinitely on hold, stalling important bird flu studies. This unprecedented freeze sparks concerns of political meddling in science. "If it’s not short-lived, it’s censorship.” My latest @kffhealthnews.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies - KFF Health News
An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.
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