From the new issue: The great American brain drain could define science for a generation
Had a great, easy writing day yesterday, a brutally hard one today. As I force myself to keep typing, Annie Dillard whispers: “Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.”
These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
The “trillion-dollar question” of adapting western agriculture to declining future snow-water resources isn’t how to adapt but, rather, where specific already-known strategies will make the most—and fastest—difference in offsetting projected losses.
eos.org/opinions/arc...
Study of low-solar-low-wind (LSLW) "energy droughts" in China reveals SW China, with limited renewable energy sources & incomes, is especially prone to LSLW drought. Climate change is expected to increase LSLW droughts & socioeconomic inequalities.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Report finds that ~ every child around the world, including those in high-income countries, is now exposed to at least one climate hazard, while 123k experience more than six in their lifetimes.
data.unicef.org/resources/ch...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
