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The New York Times – no paywall: “The science on climate change has long been settled. Now the law is, too. On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice, the judicial branch of the United Nations, recognized for the first time that there is no way to solve the climate crisis or atone for its devastating …
American Prospect: “Climate disasters are causing “record-high insurance losses,” a recent CNN article began, citing insurance industry research. The first half of 2025 brought about “a new market reality,” it said, with climate-related losses for insurers setting a record for the January-to-June period. It is true that insurance companies have made some large payouts for …
USAFacts – Effectiveness dates for new, existing and ending programs and policies.
ConsumerAffairs: “The link between economic activity and traffic appears to hold true for our ranking: The cities with the worst traffic in America are among the cities with the highest economic output. Geographically, the top-ranked cities are clustered in two regions: Three of the worst cities for traffic are in the South, and the remaining …
ProPublica: “A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought. The Trump administration is considering slashing rules meant to protect the environment and the public during commercial …
“Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCHD) How a storm of false and misleading claims about extreme weather events spread unchecked on social media putting lives at risk. CCDH’s new research shows that social media companies are letting falsehoods about extreme weather events like the LA Fires and Hurricane Helene spread unchecked on their platforms. CCDH …
Christina Pagel – “With the help of amazing volunteers, I’ve converted my Trump action tracker spreadsheet into an easy to use website – now up to 740 actions and counting. Today I’m launching TrumpActionTracker.info – a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). Logging actions of the …
Baltimore Banner: “If you are an Orioles fan, you have probably strolled by this unassuming garden behind the Veterans Memorial at Camden Yards, unaware of its special purpose. And that’s by design. Installed almost 10 years ago at the Eutaw Street entrance, the garden, roughly the size of two basketball courts, seeks to attract the …
Kottke – “XKCD mapped the most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by iNaturalist users. I had no idea bumble bees were such a popularly observed animal — the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) is most-observed in Vermont, Wisconsin, Maine, Connecticut, Illinois, and Minnesota. Also popular: white-tailed deer, bison, …
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a term for it – ‘Noctalgia’ is a feature of the modern age. The Light Pollution Map uses the Bortle Scale to help find places to mitigate noctalgia. Building the world’s most detailed, interactive global light‑pollution map. Visualize Bortle classes, SQM values & certified Dark‑Sky …
Washington Post – no paywall: “President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash staffing. The Supreme Court has revived the administration’s efforts to lay off workers, allowing planned reductions in force to resume …
Improving Climate Modeling – “Researchers from the University of Chicago and ETH Zurich have created a global dataset of extreme weather events to support better storm detection and climate modeling. The dataset includes over 49,000 examples of events such as intense rain bands, powerful cyclones, and persistent atmospheric blocks that can trigger floods, heatwaves, and …
