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New in Perspectives Relationships Beyond the (Ivory) Flux Tower By Bassiouni et al 2025

The "Meet the Fluxers" podcast celebrates FLUXNET's legacy of relationships and broader impacts that empower diverse communities.🎧️

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Trump Is Attacking Climate Science. Scientists Are Fighting Back. It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps.

One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective

Greenland Dust Delivers Nutrients to Ice-Melting Algae - Eos Researchers scrutinized aerosols above and within the ice sheet, finding phosphorus and other mineral particles.

Greenland Dust Delivers Nutrients to Ice-Melting Algae eos.org/articles/gre...

Antarctic Ice Sheet Has Lost a Connecticut-Sized Amount of Ice Over the Past 30 Years - Eos A new study of Antarctica has found that since 1996, its ice sheet has lost 12,820 square kilometers (nearly 5,000 square miles) of ice—nearly enough to cover the state of Connecticut, or 10 cities th...

Antarctic Ice Sheet Has Lost a Connecticut-Sized Amount of Ice Over the Past 30 Years eos.org/research-and...

Adventures in Biometeorology! We hoped for a prescribed burn to reduce thatch at the east end @ameriflux.bsky.social wetland. Today we learned it was burned last week. Oops. Seems the fire had its own mind. Lots of melted wires and a T/RH Gill aspirator.

Will be interesting to study regrowth

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2/20/26 8:35 am Update:
The #snow has stopped but not before giving us another 18.5" (47 cm) in the last day. That brings our 5-day total to 111" (281.5 cm), the third snowiest 5-day period on record at the lab*.

Calm conditions for the next several days but a warmer storm moves in mid-week.

Bay Area deli with 100-year history closes one of its last locations One of the last remaining locations of Genova Deli, a family-run business with century-old roots in the East Bay, will shut its doors in Walnut Creek.

Sad to hear. This was our source of the best ravioli when i was growing up (except when hand made by our Nonna and Zia for Christmas and Thanksgiving)

Fyi The lasagna at the Napa store is first rate, too.

www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...

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Keep an eye on the accumulating snow at the snow lab. 3 feet last 24 hours and more to come. We need to replenish the snow pack this winter

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

“🇺🇸 agriculture is on the verge of widespread collapse… they’re asking for a rollback of virtually every policy Trump has introduced.”

As Republicans try to distance Trump policies from🧑‍🌾 farmer struggles, the truth is clear: www.facebook.com/share/v/17Up...

Will it really snow in the Bay Area this week? Here’s the forecast Mount Diablo is one of the Bay Area peaks forecast to experience freezing temperatures and a few inches of snow.

NEW: This week will bring the Bay Area's best chance of snow in three years as a series of cold storms sweep Northern California. #CAwx

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

A Flood of Hope  By Ted Sommer My most inspiring bike ride this past year was not on a mountain or in some exotic destination. It was sixteen flat and muddy valley miles under overcast skies. My destination was a new concrete structure designed to reconnect the Sacramento River with its adjacent floodplain, the Yolo Bypass. This habitat restoration project reflects decades of work by my team and represents one of the most important steps to save Central Valley salmon.

A Flood of Hope

 By Ted Sommer My most inspiring bike ride this past year was not on a mountain or in some exotic destination. It was sixteen flat and muddy valley miles under overcast skies. My destination was a new concrete structure designed to reconnect the Sacramento River with its adjacent…

Need a getaway? A different Bay Area awaits on the roads less traveled For those needing a break from city life, back roads and empty beaches await less than 90 minutes away from San Francisco.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Winter weather makes a big return over the next few days with some rain and wind to wrap up the weekend followed by more storms bringing gusty wind, cold temps and the lowest snow levels of the season. Bundle up! 2/14/2026 @NBC Bay Area #BayArea #Sierra #sanfrancisco #oakland #sanjose

Trump calls climate change threat to public health 'a scam' but scientific findings show otherwise The decision from the administration on Thursday reverses a 2009 finding that says warming endangers Americans' lives and health.

Trump calls climate change threat to public health 'a scam' but scientific findings show otherwise
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Tahoe snowstorm could make travel ‘impossible,’ officials warn A major winter storm moving in over the holiday weekend will vastly improve ski conditions but could make highways impassable.

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Tule fog blankets a Yolo County walnut orchard. Photo by Caleb Hampton

Hard to predict how inconsistent temperatures may affect almond bloom
“The chill sets you up, but you have to consider the different weather patterns at bloom time as well,” @ucanr.edu orchard advisor Franz Niederholzer told Ag Alert
www.agalert.com/california-a...
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‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding - Inside Climate News The Trump administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gases are a pollutant, an important legal foundation for their regulation.

"knowledge about how greenhouse gases affect hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, flooding & agriculture becomes more detailed every year. The government’s decision today is 'not based on science,' Howarth said. 'It’s a predetermined political decision.' "
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AGU Denounces Trump Administration’s Repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote made history by publishing the first academic paper demonstrating that carbon dioxide traps heat from the Sun, a discovery that laid the foundation for climate...

Read @agu.org's denunciation of the news here:

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

These maps show where California sank the most over the past decade Over the past decade, parts of California have plummeted by multiple feet. Satellite data shows where subsidence and uplift occurred the most across the Bay Area and Central Valley.

Nice to see science reporting by the SF Chronicle on this topic of subsidence across California

www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

They are recruiting a new editor in chief for JGR Biogeosciences @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

The Bay Area’s most unlikely landmark: A 125-year-old lightbulb that’s still burning A typical lightbulb can last about a year. The one hanging from the ceiling at this Bay Area fire station has lasted more than a century — and scientists don’t know why.

www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...

Coastal Wetlands Restoration, Carbon, and the Hidden Role of Groundwater - Eos Coastal wetland restoration offers major carbon benefits, and understanding groundwater processes helps explain how these ecosystems store carbon over the long term.

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USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...

Another reason why corrupt govt is not good for business

USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres - www.reuters.com/business/usd...

These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We are having problems renewing home coverage. Forced to add home security & water turnoff meter (> $2k) just to renew. Alternative coverage would be $12k

The atmosphere should not be a free sewer. Time to internalize these externalities.

My wife and I watched Stanley Tucci's about food in Italia. We were impressed by the episode about Genoa. The overarching theme about their dolce vita was 'enough is plenty'

Spent time doing the same this week

Saw a tortoise, a new badger den, deer and hawks on my pm hike. Though we need rain thought this bit of nature could inspire us in this troubling time