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Fire suppression in Europe has led to an overall decline in wildfire since the 80s, despite a global warming-fueled rise in risky fire weather. That can't last. "This is the kind of trend that is unstoppable." New in @nature.com:🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holdsCountries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.www.nature.com

Quanta hitting it out of the park with this here cow

Latest inventory of pyrocumulonimbus events suggests that the past three years (2023-25) saw more fire clouds than any year back to 2013. But researchers told me record is still to short and sketchy to detect any trend, climate-related or otherwise.

Shoutout to @alexwitze.bsky.social for glamour shot of NCAR Gulfstream V jet waiting in hangar in Broomfield.

Firefighters in Oregon, Spain, and now France (?!) are battling wildfires big enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These fire storms are treacherous on the ground. But scientists are concerned about the *planetary* consequences of injecting so much smoke into the upper atmosphere...🌍🔥🧵

Wowza. Look at this chart on wildfires in France from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social EFFIS. Red line is cumulative area burned this year; blue line is average since 2006...

Somebody might want to show this to Colorado-Utah-Arizona-California-Mexico...

It's not quite "gobsmackingly bananas" but monster forecasts for the record El Nino brewing the Pacific Ocean get pretty close. Here's what to make of it in my first for @nature.com: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.www.nature.com

There's gold in them thar......subducted seamounts?? This is cool from @gernon.bsky.social etal. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Seamount subduction drives bonanza-grade gold mineralizationA “start button” for the formation of giant gold deposits on Earth is the subduction of plume-related seamounts.www.science.org

Earth’s core may be as much as 1000°C cooler than thought, according to a new technique for measuring the temperature of molten iron under extreme pressures. Story in @science.org. 🧪⚒️🪐 www.science.org/content/arti...

Earth’s core may be far cooler than scientists thoughtNew measurements could help explain how the planet’s magnetic dynamo churned for billions of yearswww.science.org

"Placing China’s raw data off-limits could impede studies of earthquake hazards, fault systems, and Earth’s interior, and make Chinese findings harder for outsiders to reproduce, say the seismologist and others."... www.science.org/content/arti...

China’s detention of U.S. seismologist and data-sharing crackdown alarm researchersYoulin Chen analyzed earthquake data that can also aid nuclear-test monitoringwww.science.org

Hello friends. I'm starting a new job today reporting for @nature.com on all things climate and Earth science, energy, and beyond.🌍Please get in touch if you're a researcher/gov staffer/startup with results/projects that deserve attention--or are facing problems we should know about. Contact in bio.

New type of intraplate volcano discovered on Atlantic seafloor? I took a look for @science.org at #goldschmidt 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...

Undersea lava flows named after Game of Thrones dragon may reveal a new type of volcanismThe Atlantic Ocean’s Balerion Lava Field doesn’t fit any established model of volcanic eruptionswww.science.org

Thanks to the New York Public Library for the chance to talk about my research on the history of deep Earth geoscience. The library has been such a fantastic place to work. Can't beat the feeling of opening books that seem as though they haven't been read for a century. www.nypl.org/blog/2026/06...

Forty years ago this month the ecologist George Woodwell told the US Senate that warming feedbacks due to ecosystems emitting more GHGs were "at the edge of what science knows." For @yalee360.bsky.social I wrote about the climate scientists scrambling to catch up: e360.yale.edu/features/war...

A Missing Piece in Climate Models: Nature’s Own EmissionsRising temperatures are set to drive up emissions from wildfires, fermenting wetlands, and melting permafrost, but these “feedback loops” are poorly captured in climate models. Scientists are racing t...e360.yale.edu

For @sciam.bsky.social I wrote about how powerful new x-rays and lasers are revealing an “explosion” of new minerals from Earth‘s mantle trapped in super-deep diamonds.🧪⚒️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...

Deep-Earth diamonds are revealing a trove of never-before-seen mineralsFlecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interiorwww.scientificamerican.com

New essay out in @aeon.co in which I consider the deepest ways in which humans have changed the planet in the Anthropocene (hint: it’s not that super deep hole in Russia). 🧪⚒️🌍 aeon.co/essays/how-d...

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Mineral boom is already pushing mines to go bigger—and deeperResearchers say the expansion of *existing* mines poses an overlooked environmental threatopen.substack.com

Not that I would want to live on Mars, but I hear the aeolian geology is unparalleled.

The martian atmosphere is currently 200 times thinner than that of Earth. A 3 billion-year-old sandstorm recorded in the rocks could be the first direct evidence that wasn't always so. My latest for @science.org.🧪⚒️ 🚀🪐

Relics of an ancient sandstorm on Mars point to Earth-like windsCuriosity rover finds what may be the first direct evidence that Mars once had a thick atmospherewww.science.org