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For 223 straight days, Earth's sea surface temperatures have been at all-time record warm levels. That's 7 months and 9 days straight. An unprecedented amount of oceanic warmth never seen before in modern history.

Scientific American: The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity scientificamerican.com/article/the-fa…

NATURE IS DWINDLING: A diverse set of mammals once roamed the planet. This changed dramatically with the arrival of humans. Since then, wild land mammal biomass has declined by ~ 85%. Humans & their livestock are now dominant.

About 500 million birds are predicted to migrate across the U.S. each night this weekend! Lights at night can be very disorienting to birds during their long fall migration. To help prevent deadly bird collisions, turn off or dim unnecessary lights! Graphic: BirdCast

On this day, Southwestern University observes Indigenous Peoples' Day to honor the Indigenous peoples who were the first and original inhabitants of the Americas. Our community values and celebrates Indigenous histories, cultures, traditions, and contributions of native people.

Support the academic success of our students. Mila Fisher ’24, and Madeleine Gütmann ’26 collaborated with Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux, on a project surrounding the physical effects of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)! Make your gift: givecampus.com/yesjlq

Assistant Professor of Biology Jennie DeMarco partnered with students to research how to restore ski slopes and sequester soil carbon to mitigate climate change 🌱 Learn more: ow.ly/B7Bs50PSEa0

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

New York's old rainfall record stood for 150 years until 2021, and has now been broken three times. Hot air holds more water vapor than cold; flooding follows fossil fuel combustion as night follows day.

I graduated from all-Black segregated Mulberry Heights High School in #Elba, AL nearly 6 decades ago, at a time when #JimCrow laws kept me out of the local library. Today, I am being inducted into the @Americanacad. I am chuckling after writing 18 books! @BullardCenter

Study shows there’s twice as much plastic on the planet than animals (by weight). How awful.

Breaking news: The Biden administration has canceled all oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. alaskapublic.org/2023/09/06/haa…

Earth just had its hottest three months on record - @WMO & @CopernicusECMWF Limiting human-caused #GlobalWarming requires #NetZero CO2 emissions. Limiting warming to 1.5°C & 2°C involves rapid, deep & in most cases immediate #GHG emission reductions. ➡️bit.ly/WMOPRHt

Texas energy policy often makes more sense when you see it as an effort to bolster or enrich the fossil fuel sector, and less as an effort to improve the power grid.

@AAG_Energy @Geospatialjobs @MyGISJobs @jobingis

Southwestern University is hiring for a TT position in Environmental GIS If you're an interdisciplinary GIS scholar who wants to work with amazing students in a small, top-tier liberal arts atmosphere, then you should definitely apply! jobs.aag.org/jobs/view/assi…

Sadly, biodiversity loss has become an increasingly bigger problem as roughly 27,000 species go extinct every year. This can be attributed to both land use and climate change. Via @climatescience

6.5 billion people were affected by heat waves driven by climate change in July. There are 7.8 billion people on Earth. usatoday.com/story/news/wea…

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Report gives ERCOT a D+ for transmission planning and development. The fact that we're having to curtail the enormous amount of solar being produced today because of insufficient transmission backs this up. #txenergy