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"Climate change is causing enormous amounts of ice to melt in West Antarctica. It's a huge driver of sea level rise worldwide. But the water is rising more quickly in some places than others. Galveston, Texas — thousands of miles away from Antarctica — is experiencing some of the fastest sea level rise in the world."
#Nature #Antarctica #Ocean #SeaLevel #Glaciers #Ice #Science #Climate #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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"The humble mangrove has a superpower that's supporting healthy fisheries in many parts of the world. The majority of fishes we eat worldwide are supported by mangroves — their roots serve as a nursery for baby fish. Discover why a local fishing solution now plays a crucial role in slowing global warming."
#Nature #Ocean #Mangroves #NPR #Fishing #Fisheries #Environment #Climate #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming
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The major wheat-producing region is facing punishing drought, tariffs, and high fertilizer prices.
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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As electric vehicles grow in popularity, firefighters in Minnesota and beyond are training for these emergencies.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/how-first-responders-prepare-for-rare-ev-fires/
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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A nurse and professor borrowed the idea from the military – and now it’s being tested in North Carolina’s scorching fields.
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake. The event went largely unreported at the time, but a new scientific analysis shows it was caused by a massive landslide.
An incredible 64 million cubic metres of rock – the equivalent of 24 Great Pyramids - splashed into the water below. The sheer power of that amount of rock plunging into the fjord in under a minute created a gigantic wave almost 500 metres tall.
#Nature #Tsunami #Alaska #Science #Earth #Geology #ClimateDiary
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Facing a months-long U.S. blockade, Cuba announced Wednesday that the country had run out of diesel and fuel oil. Its unsteady power grid is running on domestically produced crude oil, natural gas, and a growing supply of renewable electricity. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/cuba-solar-us-blockade
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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A ‘climate battery’ system helps plants thrive all winter – no fossil fuels needed.
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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Student teams will compete this weekend in the annual Solar Boat Regatta in Minnesota.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/kids-race-boats-powered-by-sunshine-alone/
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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The campaign to restore the Everglades has received a boost with completion of a key project that returns the flow of water to 55,000 acres that had once been drained for development. Experts see it as a major step forward in bringing back South Florida’s River of Grass. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/features/picayune-strand-restoration-project
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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"The fact that a man-made environmental disaster altered the upper mantle is a shocking illustration of the scale of the planetary transformations that mark the Anthropocene – the age in which humans are supposedly the central geological force on Earth. It would also seem to suggest that human activity could be affecting Earth’s interior in other ways. We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface."
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A therapist says many of his patients are still struggling with mental health consequences, three years after the disaster.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/the-long-shadow-of-mauis-wildfires/
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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Southern California has seen a spike in great white shark sightings amid a spate of unseasonably warm spring weather. Experts expect to see more unusual heat, and more sharks, in the months ahead. Read more on E360 →
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-white-sharks-southern-california
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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Its waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans, with huge implications for hurricane risk.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/something-startling-is-happening-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/
#Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature
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What surprised her was how many of her students, "whether they were an introvert or extrovert, indicated that they wanted to continue practicing intentionality. This illustrates an important life lesson; when we are deliberate in showing kindness — even through simple conversations — it benefits us as much as the recipient."
"I noticed pretty quickly that these small interactions actually seemed to make a difference, especially in a place like the hospital [where I work] where almost everyone is a little stressed," observed Saskia Guikema. "It reinforced something I already believed: People really do appreciate being remembered. Something as simple as using someone's name or taking a few extra minutes to listen can actually mean a lot."
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/09/g-s1-119761/hello-greeting-strangers-benefit-social-ties
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"It's a special thing to be a human and a special thing to be on planet Earth."
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, have been sharing their insights and experiences of their trip around the Moon now that their feet are solidly back on terra firma. Scientific American has pulled some of their best quotes into a series of very short videos.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc
#Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth
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"What human culture added was interpretation, prestige and normativity: it turned sentience into personhood, and personhood into something sacred. The crucial catalyst was the evolution of language, which, about 200,000 years ago, gave human beings new ways to describe inner life, attribute it to others, and elevate it into a shared ideal."
https://aeon.co/essays/you-know-what-consciousness-is-you-live-in-soul-land?utm_source=rss-feed
#Soul #Consciousness #Humans #Psychology #Humanity #Pluralism #Humanities #Nature #Science #Philosophy #Aeon
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"The dangers posed by the tropical cyclone are being significantly increased by human-caused global warming. In fact, one of the more confident predictions about how climate change will affect these great storms is that the winds of the strongest ones will get stronger."
#Weather #Ocean #Climate #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #CO2 #MH4 #Cyclone #Hurricane #Typhoon #Sinlaku
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"In what looks like an austere, water-filled room, the French free-diver, dancer and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier performs a breathtaking aquatic dance. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions."
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"An aquatic spectacle from the French freediving champion Guillaume Néry. Without the aid of supplied air, Néry plunges into the ocean's hidden depths, revealing remarkable views of marine geology and wildlife around the globe. Seamlessly transitioning between a range of underwater realms, the video gives the impression that Néry's journey is taken in a single breath."
https://aeon.co/videos/dances-with-whales-the-ethereal-underwater-vistas-of-an-elite-freediving-team
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"Heidegger believed that we risked seeing the world only in terms of economic potential and efficiency – an undeveloped beach becomes no more than an opportunity to develop beachfront condos, for instance. He believed that, to prevent us from losing our humanity, we should look to artists, who represent another way of seeing – one that deepens our appreciation of the world rather than flattening it."
https://aeon.co/videos/as-technologies-mine-our-attention-we-must-look-to-artists
#Humanity #Artists #Music #Technology #Art #Jazz #LiveMusic #Aeon
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"The wildlife refuge Izembek occupies a small portion of Alaska's Bering Sea coast. This stretch of wetlands, tundra and coastal lagoons supports a remarkable range of wildlife. For decades, it's also been at the centre of a dispute over a proposed road that would link two isolated villages by cutting through this federally protected wilderness. This cinematic short film produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides a portrait of the landscape, showing both its sublime beauty and the wildlife that rely on it, while prompting viewers to consider what could be lost."
https://aeon.co/videos/could-one-road-forever-change-this-remote-alaskan-refuge?utm_source=rss-feed
#Nature #Alaska #Wilderness #Izembeck #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Aeon
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"Humans have a handicap in this regard. We call it self-awareness—the ability to know who we are, to remember the past, and imagine the future.
Many constantly plan for a future that never arrives, based on memories of the past.
Many don’t experience the present moment as the only reality, unaware that the past and the future do not exist.
In reality, the present is the constantly moving interface between what was and what is yet to be."
https://wayofnature.weebly.com
#Nature #Psychology #Science #Zen #Buddhism #Taoism #Vedanta #TheWay
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A memorable commencement speech full of heart and wisdom from 2013 by author George Saunders, professor of English and author of Lincoln In The Bardo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ruJWd_m-LgY
#GeorgeSaunders #Commencement #Humanity #Authors #Writers #Wisdom #Inspiration
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"A23a is the size of Oahu, and it's moving into the open ocean in water that is well above freezing, meaning it will break apart quickly in the coming weeks.
This, plus moving ever further north and the coming of southern spring means it is likely to rapidly disintegrate into bergs too small to track further.
Eventually, it will be too small to be seen by satellite — the end of a decades-long era for the scientists who have tracked it."
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5527058/largest-iceberg-a23a-breaking-up
#Antarctica #Ocean #Science #Iceberg #A23a #Nature #Climate #NPR
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"California has become a vivid example of a global phenomenon known as hydroclimate whiplash, which involves sudden and dramatic swings between extreme wet and dry conditions."
"By greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire season, and then by drying it out to exceptionally high levels with the extreme dryness and warmth that followed."
"For every degree Celsius of warming, the atmosphere’s capacity to hold moisture increases by 7%, compounding the severity of both droughts and floods."
"The problem is that the sponge grows exponentially, like compound interest in a bank. The rate of expansion increases with each fraction of a degree of warming."
https://www.earth.com/news/climate-whiplash-from-floods-to-droughts-and-wildfires/
#CaliforniaWildFires #Climate #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #Environment #Nature #Science
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On a lighter note, was reading an interesting #Wikipedia article that referenced the #triboelectric effect, commonly known as static electricity.
Thought the lede example pic was apropos for a #Caturday post. Kinda how life feels right now.
Attribution: Sean McGrath (CC BY 2.0)