Panama's Minister for the Environment:"It is unacceptable that even corporations have legal rights, but nature largely has none."

Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices in Australia after British colonization probably transformed swathes of the southeast into dense, flammable forests that contribute to bigger, hotter bush fires today: new Nature study using pollen and sediment records: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The gutting of NSF's Social and Behavioral Sciences directorate makes me incredibly sad
www.science.org/content/arti...

I currently live not in Kansas but Middlesex County, NJ, which has just filed a lawsuit in NJ Superior Court against the oil majors: climateintegrity.org/uploads/medi...

A tale of 2 kids from 1980s Kansas - one (me) became an @ipcc.bsky.social author and climate scientist. The other became the lawyer for the oil companies in the recent Supreme Court hearing on climate superfund bills www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/c...

Southeast Asian economies have released more renewable energy than fossil fuel policies due to the US-Iran War: zerocarbon-analytics.org/energy/south...

To join this talk or their upcoming panels visit @ruclimateenergy.bsky.social: rcei.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

Happening now! Rutger's Climate Week's "The Science and Politics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Current Challenges in Informing Policy," featuring CSSN scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social @kdepryck.bsky.social and @pammcelwee.bsky.social.

The NASA and USAID-supported SERVIR Hindu Kush observing program was set up to help identify and provide early-warning of hazards, just like the flooding that struck Nepal last week. It was defunded the first week of this administration in 2025. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Action now can still limit the magnitude and duration of the peak and preserve the possibility of returning to or below 1.5°C through an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway. 

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As the US experiences unprecedented heatwaves this summer, the government is undoing OSHA protections meant to help workers cope with these impacts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...