Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural poet, is also a climate activist. She even helped organize a nationwide climate-themed poetry contest. In her poem “Earthrise”, she writes a line that is truly inspired: “Pale blue dot, we will fail you not.” thephoenix.substack.com/p/amanda-gorma…

Wow. Boulder after the storm this morning. 📷: monkmoose via Instagram.

An excellent piece in today's NYT about the threats to grasslands as well as their importance - and the key role ranchers and regenerative ag play in their conservation. #grasslands #COP26 nytimes.com/2021/10/31/cli…

An excellent piece in the The Christian Science Monitor about the importance of engaging local communities - and helping them benefit - if we're serious about stopping deforestation in the Amazon. #COP26 csmonitor.com/World/Americas…

whether it’s one other person’s shoulders beside you, or 11 on the green, or 25,000 large and loud and loving in the stands... we show up. #RCTID #MLSCup

#marshallfire view from the western side, looking past NIST. So sorry for those who lost a home today. I’m a fire scientist who’s studied wildfires for 20 years. #WinterWildfires are a sign that #climatechange is here and now. Hot fall & winter temperatures helped set the stage.

Here are some of my thoughts on the #MarshallFire…thank you Democracy Now! for taking time to speak with me this morning. We are #ColoradoStrong but we need to build back smarter, more climate resilient. #ClimateCrisis

The #MarshallFire is the most destructive fire in Colorado by far…from data Maxwell C. Cook Lise Ann St. Denis and Earth Lab CU-Boulder team pulled together from incident reports since 1999.

This whole thread is worth reading. Really thankful conditions weren’t worse and no homes or lives appear to have been lost, but there are a number of lessons we can take away from the #NCARFire

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

An excellent piece by Julia Rosen and The Atlantic about #grasslands - often overlooked, severely imperiled, and almost impossible to restore once they’re destroyed. Forests are important, but grasslands need attention too. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Congratulations to CU, Jennifer Balch and all the others involved in launching this important new lab!

Sobering, disturbing, and well worth reading. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Truly stunning.

An important article. Climate change is hugely important, but it's not the only environmental crisis. “The lie is that if we address the climate crisis, we will also solve the biodiversity crisis.” #biodiversity #COP15 theintercept.com/2022/12/03/cli…

This is such an important, underreported story, looking at the health impacts of the Marshall Fire, particularly for those whose homes are still standing. Kudos to Boulder Reporting Lab Hillary Rosner Stacy Feldman and the terrific Center for Environmental Journalism grad students for this collaboration.

Lots of great words in today’s 🐝 Sam Ezersky but what’s wrong with these two fairly common words? (I won’t even mention the weird bias against cool wild cats…).

Silence on biodiversity is deadly ft.com/content/d24a44… " #COP15 #COP15montreal

An excellent piece by ⁦Jennifer Balch⁩ Wildfires were once slowed by night and winter. Not anymore. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

via @NYTOpinion “The climate and biodiversity crises are twin-barreled problems. We can’t afford to rob biodiversity to pay for the climate.” nytimes.com/2023/06/10/opi…