1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵
Global study of >550K reservoirs finds >half of world’s reservoirs will be >half full of sediments by 2060. Capture of sediments (>36 cu km/yr) not only reduces water storage but also impacts (mostly adversely) downstream geomorphologic & hydrologic processes.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
Great explainer of the arcane, mind-numbing way that rule changes by the Office of Management and Budget could devastate scientific research in the U.S. in ways that go way beyond funding cuts.
Don’t go numb. Your public comment is desperately needed:
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it:
youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg