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Photo of man in protective gear and goggles holding the US flag amid tear gas clouds, with sparks from flares on the pavement.

Photo by Jeff Wheeler of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.

snow-covered street with a single vehicle's headlights cutting through the blue-tinted atmosphere

The Quiet American
Pete Turner, 1958

Congratulations @kaibosworth.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @rrr3006.bsky.social for 2025 IHG Research Grant Award!!

For my latest for @rollingstone.com , I take a deep dive into every dirty gift Trump's massive tax-and-spending bill gives the fossil fuel industry, and takes from everyone else.
Spoiler: it's worse than you think.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win | Heba Gowayed The Democratic socialist’s victory in the New York City primary elections shows support for Palestine is not a liability

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The profound misrepresentation of Zohran’s positions (on police, Israel) and the viability/scale of his policy platform (modest tax increases for small-scale pilot programs) by Democrats and the media are what you would expect from bad faith opponents, which makes me think that's who they are.

Come and join us at the Conference on Centring justice in climate risk management for transformative change at IIASA in December this year. The call for abstracts has been extended to 7 July. See more in the link below.

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

Where are you watching all these wonderful Iranian movies, including The Sealed Soil?

January 19

2024’s Record-Breaking Heat Brought the World to a Dangerous Threshold. Now What? (Gift Article) Global temperatures last year crept past a key goal, raising questions about how much nations can stop the planet from heating up further.

News item: the global average temperature in 2024 surpassed the 1.5C threshold set by the Paris accord

Merci, Gisèle.

The call is out! In Oct 2025, Aotearoa/New Zealand hosts the world’s most significant climate adaptation event: #AF2025. Online & in-person. Hosted by UC & UN World Adaptation Science programme & consortium sponsors. A key focus is Oceania & Indigenous solutions. Join us! adaptationfutures2025.com

top 5 lynch?

After seeing some of the Insta comments, I wondered if it's The Dark Knight fanbois all over again.

Haha thanks! Also, sorry for making you remember things from a couple of decades back, lol.

That sounds amazing. Which Almodóvar movie you liked the most? Also any recommendation from the occupied France class?

There's an amazing Palestine Studies guide up on the University of Chicago library site! Check it out: guides.lib.uchicago.edu/palestine

New research paper explores concept of climate finance justice CSU's Lauren Gifford is the lead author on a new paper examining the emerging field of climate finance justice.

Our paper "Defining climate finance justice" is out now, open access. @laurla11.bsky.social
agsci.source.colostate.edu/research-pap...

Quite helpful thread(s) by Prof @lisaschipper.bsky.social on the evolution of adaptation, conceptual overlap and tensions with development, challenges in guiding policymakers, implications on vulnerability, and maladaptation. Please read!!

Studies of almost 750 events and trends reveal the impact of climate change on extreme weather.

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4eFnQus

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Looking for literature that focuses on the role of geopolitics as a driver of climate change adaptation projects in the Global South. I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Deforestation is a complicated political process to manage and sustain https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/725051