Whoa! It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/business/mosquito-laser-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFE.81fJ.kMdvQkgR_CC_&smid=url-share

How the Trump regime is destroying America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/climate/how-trump-is-dismantling-americas-scientific-research-machine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1E.t7YQ.GQr84enkjdta&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Preventing methane leaks is in my top five climate solutions. This is very stupid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/climate/trump-methane-rules-epa-greenhouse-gas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.z5jG.PZOg8NpQXZ1N&smid=bs-share

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/22/shallow-water-coral-reef-ecosystem-collapse-by-2075-un-advisors-say?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1792677383-1

Salt marshes protect coastlines by attenuating wind waves, but even though the marsh substrate remains stable during extreme storms, vegetation damage reduces wave attenuation. Nature can only do so much to protect us against an increasingly dangerous world created by climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11145-8

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

If we were to cut emissions by 18% in four years, that’s about the same rate of decrease as in 2020 during COVID-19 when the whole world shut down. 🫠

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/21/world-cut-emissions-un-climate-crisis?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1792595368-1

Heat storms, massive heat waves covering at least 1% of the globe for five consecutive days, have become increasingly frequent and severe. These storms were rare in the 1960s, but now average 102 per year, causing widespread heat-related deaths, wildfires, and droughts.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-heatstorms-science/

Brian Stone, acting head of the National Science Foundation (NSF), is retiring at the end of the year, along with chief of staff Rebecca Keiser. 😐

https://www.science.org/content/article/two-top-nsf-officials-are-leaving-agency-under-trump-s-thumb-it-may-not-matter

"'Perhaps Mother Nature, by delivering a measles outbreak in New York’s Amish community coincident with this case returning to the Supreme Court, is her not-so-subtle hint,' said Dr. Howard Zucker, who was state health commissioner when New York eliminated religious exemptions." 🫠

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/nyregion/measles-amish-school-vaccine-requirement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.jgy2.XJUpPLa7peIQ&smid=url-share

Insanity

https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/nsf-witholds-one-billion-dollars/104/web/2026/10

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.