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ocean-lover and science journo covering food, land, nature, & climate @carbonbrief.org & elsewhere
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Giuliana Viglione @giulianaviglione.bsky.social · Jan 22
In the midst of one of the most gruesome periods of modern human history, whales experienced a rare moment of peace.

Now, a long-forgotten post-war museum collection is revealing how the slaughter has literally been etched into the very fibers of those whales.

www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic
A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.
www.biographic.com
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
#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 🧵

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November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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arunacsekhar.bsky.social
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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
🚨 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"
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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siricarpenter.bsky.social
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.
September 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mclem.org
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
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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jesserbnwtz.bsky.social
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
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
giulianaviglione.bsky.social
A screenshot from the show Arrested Development. The background is white and in black text it says "footage not found".
August 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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carlosmoffat.com
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...
Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
FREE DC.
Massive “FREE DC” flag projected onto building with Buck Hill mural in D.C.
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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monicapotts.bsky.social
Georgetown?
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 13
by demand, alleged footage of federal agents patrolling an empty georgetown in the middle of the night

originally posted by independent journalist olya scootercaster
August 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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carbonbrief.org
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)
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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waiterich.bsky.social
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?
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.
www.reuters.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
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.
June 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
i mean, also a blow to those of us who would like to be told about impending hurricanes
michaelrlowry.bsky.social Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · Jun 26
A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
michaelrlowry.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
All of this AND food systems are the #1 driver of pandemic risk! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
June 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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lowrhoufo.bsky.social
Shot/chaser
June 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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zacklabe.com
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.
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
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
carbonbrief.org Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 2
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.

Deadline: 02 June, 9AM BST

Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/ypeV1mr
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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zacklabe.com
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.
afreedma.bsky.social Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · May 2
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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jael.bsky.social
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...
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.
heatmap.news
April 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
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...
‘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
www.carbonbrief.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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kvasquez.bsky.social
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
March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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blkahn.bsky.social
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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
www.epa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
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.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
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...
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
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM