smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized.   By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...

Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits.
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Charts showing frequency distributions of human and lightning-caused wildfires by day of year across US regions. There is a high spike on July 4th that represents the most fire starts of the year. The research was conducted by Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, John T. Abatzogloue, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, and Adam L. Mahood.

Be careful out there tonight. That big red spike of new fires does not need to happen.

Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.

"Nest" lol some birds really just cross their wing feathers and hope

Even more evidence that using forests as nature based "solution" does not solve our carbon problem.

Another idea: substantially reduce carbon emissions, and do it like yesterday. 🔥

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Ironically, if there's one thing DOGE has done it's to make me think there is much less fraud and waste in the (non-DOD) government than I thought. If after months of practically unlimited access all they're able to find is research and grants that they disagree with, there must not be much

USFS keeps trying to equate "reducing hazardous fuels and wildfire risk" with increased commercial logging & benefits to the timber industry -- but they are not equatable. The vast majority of commercial logging *increases* fuels & fire hazard. Don't believe the spin. 🌏 www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

The Trump administration is gutting the EPA's enforcement of pollution regulations and rolling back rules, but do go on about our "standards."

I will never not find this funny.

#FireScarFriday 🔥

tweet from @DOGE The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records. there is a community note: Despite its age, magnetic tape is still highly favorable for long-term, static data archives. It offers cost-effectiveness (cheaper than disk/cloud), longevity (outlasts disk drives), offline security (resists cyber threats), and high capacity (up to 50TB per tape). research.ibm.com/blog/tape-dens… corodata.com/tape-backups-s… date: 4:52 PM · Apr 4, 2025 · 4.1M Views

they 100% dumped the cold backups into an s3 bucket to save $1m a year because they can't understand the value of tape storage

The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.

Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”

Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.

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Explaining this common government promotion process/trajectory to my mother was fun. Non-government citizens don't know how the process works at all.

Not to mention that USDA is not renewing term position across the board. Unsure what DOI is doing with terms

Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.

In a statement, Mr. Zeldin suggested that environmental justice — which the agency defined in 2013 as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income” with respect to environmental laws — was tantamount to discrimination. “President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people,” Mr. Zeldin said. “Part of this mandate includes the elimination of forced discrimination programs.”

I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.

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It's nice to have some of those things though

I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.

Fraud is a crime. Will people soon be indicted for all the fraud found by Elon and DOGE?

How the Loss of Federal Workers Will Have A Massive Impact on Fire Operations This Fire Season, With Riva Duncan Podcast Episode · Life with Fire · 02/16/2025 · 18m

Listen to Riva Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters - a 30y veteran of the wildland fire service - on the fire impacts of the non-fire layoffs in the federal land management agency.

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Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season The National Weather Service has lost about 10% of its staff, hitting offices prone to severe weather hardest

Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations.

Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include:

Boston
Miami
Houston
Omaha
Wichita
Kansas City
Marquette, MI
Sioux Falls, SD
Rapid City, SD
Cheyenne, WY

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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

obviously these are the geniuses we want running mail and the social security office and faa air traffic control

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Yes, that’s what Zelensky has wanted for 3 years - a nuclear holocaust and world extinction. Our Director of National Intelligence. Who will never say anything about where Putin fits into all this. Congrats, America.

If the White House excuse were true, it would really be quite a bit worse than having decided to let them cover it.

Um, who let him in the Oval Office? Not somewhere you just accidentally walk in.