Alex Ruane

The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) launched in Feb 2023 by the US State Dept in partnership with @africanunion.bsky.social, #AgMIP, @fao.org, and the African Orphan Crops Consortium. Phase 1 identified a list of nutritious and regionally relevant opportunity crops in five categories.

Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updates Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah

"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand"

Really horrific

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Thailand to send aircraft carrier for flood relief as rains intensify Thailand was preparing on Tuesday to send an aircraft carrier with relief supplies and medical teams to its south, where more heavy rain intensified the worst floods in years, which have killed 13 people and hobbled rescue and evacuation efforts.

Thailand to send aircraft carrier for flood relief as rains intensify reut.rs/4intODJ

The apocalyptic flood in southern Thailand has started to recede. Unfortunately there's been a lot of casualties (numbers not final, 33 last I heard), many of them children and elderly.

Devastating floods leaving long tail of destruction and impacts on Indonesia and Sri Lanka - this will not be over when the flood waters recede

Indonesia flood death toll climbs to 303 amid cyclone devastation, disaster agency says The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 303, the head of the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Saturday, up from a previous figure of 174 dead.

Indonesia flood death toll climbs to 303 amid cyclone devastation, disaster agency says reut.rs/3MaBzR9

'Neighbourhoods buried under mud': Sri Lanka floods death toll rises to 159 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declares a state of emergency to deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah. At least 159 people have been confirmed dead across Sri Lanka as authorities continue to battle rising floodwaters in parts of the capital...

'Neighbourhoods buried under mud': Sri Lanka floods death toll rises to 159
->Al Jazeera | #Flood | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

🆘 Satellite imagery over Sri Lanka shows widespread #flood -affected zones, visible as broad beige swaths replacing vegetation. Inland waterlogging, disrupted land patterns, and heavy sediment transport reflect extensive #flooding well beyond the coastal strip. ⛈🌊

#SriLankaFlood #FloodSL #SriLanka

Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling - Nature Climate Change Climate change influences not only crop yields but also crop nutritional content, which is currently not simulated by process-based crop models. This Perspective proposes a way forward to integrate nu...

A new #AgMIP paper in Nature Climate Change presents a novel framework for integrating nutrient dynamics into crop models, offering key insights into targeting and strengthening nutrition interventions in a changing climate.

Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation” While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

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HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.

The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

A great event at the New York Public Library. Congrats, Kate - I’m thrilled to get my signed copy!

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!

Climate change indicators All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

If you are looking for climate visualizations using a "pre-industrial" baseline (1850-1900) for calculating anomalies, I update quite a few each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... (updated through April 2025)

Full sympathy for brillant climate scientists at NASA/GISS, literally expelled from their building. I still remember the depth of stimulating scientific discussions during my 1997 visit.

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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

This iconic NASA office changed climate science forever. DOGE plans to kill it The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate change.

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One of my favorite websites is the 2m temperature anomaly at climate reanalyzer. I’ve found memory is just short enough that people do not quite remember what a given day (eg May 13th) should feel like, so we do not recognize warming in transitional seasons. climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-we...

Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...

Will you live an unprecedented life?

In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...

Excited for publication of our new piece (led by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social) describing vast potential and substantial challenges at the intersection of process-based crop modeling & machine learning. @agmip.bsky.social AGML team has identified many opportunities to merge existing & new expertises

Achieving similar (or greater?) crop yield with less mineral fertiliser and pesticides? this new paper proposes a useful framework – with examples - to quantify the contribution of ecosystem services.

Astronomers have found thousands of planets outside the solar system. All of them are, to my knowledge, garbage. Happy Earth Day to the only good one 🌍

NASA SVS is a massive benefit to everything we do at NASA, helping us scientists communicate our findings in understandable, accessible, and creative ways that show off the wonder of our world and the amazing power of NASA capabilities!

Important perspective on food systems risks given accumulating and overlapping present day challenges. Without coordinated planning, individual responses may trip all over each other

Thrilled to be one of many virtual participants on first day of #AgMIP10 at CIMMYT for packed agenda of plenary panels, working sessions and paper and poster presentations. Big challenges to food and Ag systems need bold scientific advances and collaborations across borders and disciplines.