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And for mean temperatures, last month was a near-equal second hottest October. Last month’s anomaly was 2.51C above the 1961-90, and the previous October in 2024 had a 2.52C anomaly. Both lagged 2015’s October anomaly of just over 3C:

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Electrochemistry turns nitrogen emissions into a valuable product A device that transforms smog-forming nitric oxide into useful nitric acid could be a win for metal mining

Researchers have devised an electrochemical process to convert nitric oxide emissions into pure, concentrated nitric acid, a crucial ingredient for metal processing and fertilizer production. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Fluorescence Friday! Gargi images a lot of DRGs in the lab, and these two appeared as animals to her. Can you see them? #fluorescencefriday #peripheralnervoussystem #rorschach 🧪🧪

Waste from carbon capture helps extract critical minerals Coupling critical mineral extraction with carbon removal technologies makes both more efficient

At #ACSFall2025, PNNL scientist Chinmayee Subban explained how she and her team extract critical minerals using the waste from a technology capable of tweaking ocean chemistry, to lower the costs of both processes. cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky 🧪

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Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.

I don't want to say I told y'all.
But...
thebulletin.org/2024/08/project-2025-the-right-wing-conspiracy-to-torpedo-global-climate-action/

The Colorado River Basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead 💧🌎⚠️

📰 A recent study finds the basin lost about 27.8 million acre-feet ❗ of groundwater from 2002-2024. About 68% of the losses occurred in the lower part of the basin, which lies mostly in Arizona 🧪

Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers

🧠 Optimists think on the same wavelength

Brain scans show that optimists share similar activity in a region linked to future thinking. They process good and bad events more distinctly, possibly explaining greater social resilience.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm 🧪

Estimated elevations in US population mental illness symptomatology and personality difficulties attributable to early life lead exposure over the past 75 years, by birth cohort. Ridge plots visualize the additional mental illness symptomatology (panels A–C) and personality difficulties (panels D and E) gained by US population birth cohorts as a result of adverse childhood lead exposures over the past 75 years. Panels A–C present elevations in General Psychopathology, Internalizing, and AD/HD symptoms, respectively. Panels D and E present alterations in personality characteristics that are disadvantageous, including increased Neuroticism and decreased Conscientiousness. Elevations are depicted as estimated changes from the mean under conditions of no lead exposure, in standard deviation units

I really hoped that the negative effects of lead exposure, socially, are mostly behind us... but it looks like Gen X is actually hit hard by the side-effects of lead exposure, and it's not going their neurology any favors. 🧪

Link: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Never forget nor forgive Australia's role as an enabler of the Gazan genocide. @albomp.bsky.social, @senatorwong.bsky.social and many others should be brought to The Hague.

'We must respect and uphold the rule of law, until it's inconvenient for us'

Climate, Environment, Gaza, Refugees, Deaths In Custody...

Australia supported asking the ICJ for a climate ruling—then argued states have no legal duty beyond the Paris Agreement, claimed no historical responsibility, and rejected applying the no-harm principle to emissions. In short: backing the process, but blocking the outcome. #auspol #climate

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

When video of this surgeon went viral, his colleagues were the least surprised It took a viral video for Australia to see a side of a celebrated neurosurgeon that some of his colleagues and patients had known about for years.

Remember that odd story before the election about a neurosurgeon tearing down Monique Ryan’s campaign corflute, talking about burying the body under concrete? I decided to investigate. Turns out that behaviour did not exist in a vacuum. Watch #4Corners 8.30pm, ABC TV. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

‘Get angry about it’: Mark Humphries’ doco Sold! unpacks Australia’s housing crisis In his new one-hour special for Foxtel and Binge, the satirist meets celebrity realtors and squatters – and puts Alan Kohler in a bathtub – to explore our toxic real estate obsession

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I’ve just written to my Labor MP urging them to remove Segal (and including a link to this excellent article).

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

Mums for Lungs calls for public transparency in Dieselgate hearing — Mums for Lungs As part of our ongoing Dieselgate campaign, we attended the Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation hearing at the High Court this week. This is the next stage in our campaign to ensure public transparency...

As part of our ongoing #Dieselgate campaign, we attended the Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation hearing at the High Court this week. This is the next stage in our campaign to push for public transparency and #OpenJustice in the upcoming £6 billion Dieselgate trial, scheduled for October.

Hearing calls for transparency in Dieselgate A significant hearing will take place in July regarding critical evidence in the Dieselgate lawsuit

This week, the Court heard arguments from us and @clientearth.bsky.social, asking for the removal of the redactions from legal documents filed by auto manufacturers and for the unredacted documents to be made available to third parties on public interest grounds. #Dieselgate

Since 1980, there have been over 400 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion.

These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people.

Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis.

The truth is we can’t afford not to.

ICE just raided our local Home Depot in Orlando. Of course, the masked thugs didn’t pick up any members of MS-13 — just a few hardworking immigrants trying to put food on the table for their families.

"Whether the topic is Superstorm Sandy or Sandy Hook...
powerful vested interests—fossil fuel interests in one case, the NRA in the other—are quite happy w/ the status quo. They simply don’t want to see things change [and] poison the well whenever there is an opportunity for a teachable moment."

Another study (using drones) shows that extreme sea temperatures in 2024 triggered mass morality of corals on the Great Barrier Reef, compounding losses in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022. (And 2025).

The higher the heat exposure, the greater the impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social Shifting demand from early evening to around midday can save NSW electricity consumers over $1 BILLION a month.
Batteries and other storage appliances can deliver these savings.
bsky.app/profile/askg...
#Innovation to reduce energy bills.

@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social Shifting demand from early evening to around midday can save NSW electricity consumers over $1 BILLION a month.
Batteries and other storage appliances can deliver these savings.
bsky.app/profile/askg...
#Innovation to reduce energy bills.

Adrian and his beautiful family from Parkinson in Brisbane just turned on their new home battery using our Government's Cheaper Home Battery rebate.

Solar is an Australian suburban success story and now Cheaper Home batteries are a big part of that story too.