Reposted by Robert FieldVernon Reid @vurnt22.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The Williamsburg needs to be renamed the Sonny Rollins Bridge. 618041
Reposted by Robert FieldMichael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines 616288339437
Reposted by Robert FieldLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 19/05/2026🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 Scientific Excellence in Mentoring awardee Dorothy Peteet, Excellence in Technical Mentoring awardee James Ross, and Community Impact awardee Jacqueline Austermann for their outstanding contributions to LDEO community! ➡️ lamont.columbia.edu/about/lamont-aw… 082
Reposted by Robert FieldTereza Pultarova @terezapultarova.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The satellite industry foresees hundreds of thousands or even millions of satellites orbiting the planet within the next ten years. What would that mean for Earth's climate? www.space.com/space-explor...space.comSpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say"Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants." 1147
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 29/04/2026...which continued in 2024 and especially 2025: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Happy to be part of this in @globalchangebio.bsky.social with Yang Chen & co 051
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This is a phenomenal paper. Up there with Cruz et al. 2012 'Anatomy of a catastrophic wildfire' in the detail and care put in 020
Reposted by Robert FieldInternational Journal of Wildland Fire @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social · 20/04/2026🔥New in IJWF: Zhao et al. evaluate two common tools for estimating fine dead fuel moisture. The Wiltronics meter performed best at low FMC, while the 10-h fuel stick often underestimated moisture and responded more slowly to environmental change. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1071/WF25174 #IJWildlandFire 055
Reposted by Robert FieldMike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Kaiwei Luo's second paper from his PhD thesis is now available in Science Advances. A weakened diurnal weather constraint leads to longer burning hours in North America www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 1169
Reposted by Robert FieldESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 14/04/2026Thermal sensing extends beyond hotspots🌍 FOREST-2, developed by OroraTech, detects both active fires and lower-intensity heat sources — helping researchers better track wildfire behaviour, monitor urban heat and understand how temperature extremes evolve. Read more🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su... 0176
Reposted by Robert FieldReuters @reuters.com · 14/04/2026Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off reut.rs/4tGPizGreut.rsCanadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks offWorried about wildfires sending claims soaring this year, Canada's property and casualty insurers are pushing owners to flood- and fire-proof homes and urging the government to take climate issues more seriously despite economic turmoil. 03516
Reposted by Robert FieldDoug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I’m really, really pleased that this crucial work will continue www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comAfter 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s deathProf Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change 28627
Reposted by Robert Fieldjuli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026But if you look closely, there is a lot of biological activity: Erica australis resprouting, Narcissus_coronatus, Pterospartum tridentatum (resprouts & seedlings). Llamas de Cabrera, Aug 2025 fire, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌱🍁🌴 #botany wildfire #PlantBiology 25823
Reposted by Robert FieldClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 04/04/2026You know all those maps you see of snowpack conditions in the western U.S. (and Alaska)? In many cases, it is people going out there on the 1st day of each month to make the measurements. ❄️youtube.comAlaska Weather Facts - Measuring Alaska's SnowYouTube video by National Weather Service Alaska Region 25314
Reposted by Robert FieldGrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 26/03/2026To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥iopscience.iop.orgSnowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United StatesSnowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States, Balik, Jared A, Coop, Jonathan D, Parks, Sean A 01811
Reposted by Robert FieldESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 25/03/2026Satellites revealed that the 2024 Amazon fires released far more carbon we thought: up to 3 times higher! Using a novel AI method, scientists analysed satellite data on carbon monoxide (as proxy for CO2) and found significant gaps between models/observations: www.esa.int/Applications... 18340
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This makes me super happy because WE ACT is awesome and the Champlain Hudson Power Express is awesome! 132
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 20/03/2026“The only place in Canada named after a science fiction hero” 010
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 19/03/2026That sounds good, but please less of your smoke doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgLong-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - NatureA modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h... 010
Reposted by Robert FieldWisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 15/03/2026ICYMI, the #MorrillFire (which began burning in the Nebraska Panhandle on 12 March) has burned nearly 549,000 acres -- making it the largest wildfire on record for the state of Nebraska. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #NEwx 0137
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026For math, and anything where you learn from the grind of it 010
Reposted by Robert FieldYale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Hot, dry, windy conditions are increasingly arising in multiple regions at the same time, setting the stage for simultaneous wildfires around the world, a study shows. via @vox.come360.yale.eduWarming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at OnceFirefighters combat a grass fire in Alexandra, Australia, in January. Jay Kogler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images 02017
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 23/02/2026V. cool data +: “Key unknowns include emission inventories for rockets and satellites, lack of a systematic observational survey of mesospheric metals, altitude-time ablation profiles, chemical lifetimes, particle size-composition distributions, and transport pathways into the lower stratosphere.” 0118
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I was happy to provide a quote about this very cool paper! Climate change is going to make fire-fighter sharing harder and create more transboundary smoke. In a really original way, this paper helps to understand the underlying conditions, and how they're changing. 000
Reposted by Robert FieldCong Yin @cyinglobe.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality. With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen doi.org/10.1126/scia...doi.orgIncreasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weatherIncreasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution. 15429
Reposted by Robert FieldMeredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Really can't make this stuff up I did not have a fast-tracked FCC application for an actual megaconstellation (1 million satellites) justified as "taking the first step towards becoming a Kardashev Il-level civilization" on my 2026 bingo card What are we doing friends 138024
Reposted by Robert FieldAlejandro S. Borlaff @asborlaff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Regulations are the reason your food and water is not full of lead. 041
Reposted by Robert FieldESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/02/2026Fun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries. Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...esa.intMoving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry dataWhen satellites eventually fall back down to Earth, they mostly burn up because of the friction caused by the atmosphere. Scientific data about this atmospheric reentry process is urgently needed to d... 09430
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Yearly mass put into orbit by rocket family through the megaconstellation era 101
Reposted by Robert FieldJonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 31/01/2026SpaceX has put in a kinda-sorta-application to the FCC for an orbital data center constellation with a MILLION satellites. However, the description is rather vague without the usual specifics of the orbital parameters of each shell. fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs...fccprod.servicenowservices.comICFS Application Summary - ICFS Portal 75117
Reposted by Robert FieldGuardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 27/01/2026‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stoptheguardian.com‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stopFunding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina 13833
Reposted by Robert FieldColumbia Climate School @climate.columbia.edu · 20/01/2026New analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years by Robert Field, Olivia Clifton, Konstantinos Tsigaridis of NASA GISS and co-authors shows that Canada's record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier skies: bit.ly/3NSuXro 0106
Reposted by Robert FieldTim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline) 1.41 HadCRUT5 1.44 Berkeley 1.46 JRA-3Q 1.47 Copernicus 1.53 DCENT-I NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC. 69357
Reposted by Robert FieldJohn Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026NASA have a press release... www.nasa.gov/news-release...nasa.govNASA Releases Global Temperature Data - NASAGlobal temperatures in 2025 were cooler than 2024, with average temperatures of 2.14 degrees Fahrenheit (1.19 degrees Celsius) above the 1951 to 1980 average. 297
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Ok, but EPA at least show some pictures of what you mean www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 031
Reposted by Robert FieldAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026CNN is covering the Kalshi prediction markets as though they are news 164809134
Reposted by Robert FieldLoren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 07/01/2026NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has donated his own private jets to the agency and is offering incentive rides on them to NASA employees who do exceptional work. What are your thoughts on this move? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comNASA’s Isaacman to Treat ‘Exceptional’ Staff to Private Jet RideNASA employees now have another incentive to outperform for new agency head Jared Isaacman: rides in his private F-5 jets. 352
Reposted by Robert FieldMike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Compound atmospheric drivers of the 2025 Los Angeles urban firestorm…Analysis shows driven by rare “jet-forced Santa Ana” wind wextreme northerly flow, subsidence & mountain waves. While extreme sfc winds not unprecedented, occurrence before 1st rains was uncommon. www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.com 3128
Reposted by Robert FieldUSA TODAY @usatoday.com · 17/12/2025Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.bit.lyTrump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in ColoradoThe Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs. 19114761089
Reposted by Robert FieldJonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates: 1416179
Reposted by Robert FieldMaria Clara Castellanos @calacastellanos.bsky.social · 13/12/2025See "Science behind the News" by fire researchers, on the fires last summer 023
Reposted by Robert FieldJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality. 321265
Robert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Really did not know that mega-constellations could affect space telescopes! 000
