Lisa S Gardiner

Do you keep food in the garage? Food is all part of living creatures (unless you are doing photosynthesis and making your own food). 😁

Multiples copies of REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL in a box that arrived at the author's front stoop and made her smile.

If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday

Cover of a book titled Reefs Of Time, What Fossils Reveal About Coral Survival by Lisa S. Gardner. Book appears on a table with framed maps and a scale model of the HMS Alexander Humboldt, all partially obscured by the book.

Reading about Darwin’s study of atolls and coral reefs, in @lisasgardiner.bsky.social ‘s Reefs Of Time. Great science writing that blends scientific history with current study of the fascinating life of the reefs. And I’m only on chapter two! #science

I’m getting tired of breaking records when it comes to climate and weird weather.

There’s horrifying lack of snow in the Rockies. It’s a scary year (for many reasons).

The Fight for the Heart of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - bioGraphic One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.

"Sarah Sullivant, another former EPA staffer, also lost her job after signing the letter. “It felt so disproportionate to be terminated for exercising free speech,” she says."

www.biographic.com/the-fight-fo...

6-Hourly NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data Composites Data Notice: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 updates to end on or about March 9. Learn more: [Text under link] Data Notice: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 updates to end The National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations has announced that the Climate Data Assimilation System (CDAS) will be discontinued in favor of the Conventional Observation Reanalysis ( CORe) effective on or about March 9, 2026. What this means Because of this change, PSL will no longer be able to update NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 starting around March 9, 2026, The exact date is pending the discontinuation of CDAS by the National Weather Service. The historical NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 data will remain available on our site. We are in the process of identifying other products that may no longer be able to be updated or will require a suitable alternative to CDAS to continue operating.

And yet another long standing weather and climate dataset to be terminated. While other reanalyses provide higher resolution data, none are available in as close to real-time (lag ~36 hours) as R1. #weather #climate @wxmanms1.bsky.social

Live Jelly Cam - Monterey Bay Aquarium YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium

This is your occasional reminder that several aquariums have live jellyfish cams that are Good and soothing if for some reason you are feeling rage and have already done all you can do today

www.youtube.com/live/NUnJc82...

Trump’s surgeon general pick, Casey Means, still lacks votes for confirmation Two Republican senators told POLITICO they were undecided after Means faced tough questions on her vaccine views at a nomination hearing.

Especially if you live in Alaska or Maine, call Murkowski & Collins, because they're acting like "no" is possible. Tell them to stop dithering and Just Say No on Casey Means.

Murkowski: (202)-224-6665
Collins: (202) 224-2523

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

That sounds like so much fun. I’m in snow-deprived Colorado and have to head to a mountain to find even a flake of snow. Have you made a snow cave in one of those piles? I recommend that, unless the snow is as hard as rock.

There’s nothing like being a small person in big snow. Enjoy it, children of the northeast US!

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

hey yo

i wrote a reported culture essay for @motherjones.com about solarpunk

it was incredibly fun talking to a bunch of solarpunk thinkers and artists!

the magazine commissioned some lovely art for it too

le voila: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Bears are still hibernating here in the Colorado Front Range. But, according to a local I just chatted up, they’ve been getting up for the hibernation equivalent of midnight snacks. How curious! How intriguing!

Interesting! I want to read something reef-ish! 🪸

Totally.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Photo of an Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has rather a friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the museum in the division of finds.

Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛❤️

To celebrate here’s a lovely naturalistic painting of a hippo on a small flake of limestone. Painted by an Egyptian artist some 3,500 years ago!

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Environment Reporter The Maine Monitor is seeking a reporter to cover environmental issues and policies in Maine as part of our nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization.

Hey, journalist friends: The Maine Monitor is hiring an environment reporter! The position can be remote, but you must be based in Maine.

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming MOMBASA COUNTY, Kenya — Five minutes’ walk up the hilly road from the mangroves lining the tidal flats of Jomvu Creek, the sharp scent of sea water fills the air. A dozen women fill a small hall with…

Near Mombasa, women in Jomvu Creek are transforming livelihoods through mud crab farming.

A blue economy grant supports crab fattening, ecotourism and mangrove restoration — with nearly 1 million seedlings planted to protect the shoreline and sustain fish nurseries.

Does “anyhoo” fit into the anywhere-anyhow ecosystem?

It could not be any more clear that our government works for Big Oil. This will hurt people, shorten lifespans, and cause billions of dollars in health care costs. It will also cost several more billions in environmental and property damage.

Big Oil gets even richer, while you pay the price.

Finding (and Saving) Where the Wild Things Thrive • The Revelator Where are the safe havens keeping wildlife safe from climate change? New science offers guidance on how to identify, manage, and connect climate refugia.

Finding (and Saving) Where the Wild Things Thrive • @therevelator.org via @theconversation.com therevelator.org/finding-and-...

There are a few clams tucked into the book too, Dan!

Multiples copies of REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL in a box that arrived at the author's front stoop and made her smile.

If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday

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.

Inside the climate group working everywhere but DC: ‘You can still have huge wins’ Climate Cabinet supports candidates in state and city races as the federal government ignores the climate crisis

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal.

I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You’re brilliant, Tom. Thanks for this!

I’m going to attempt to see the world with alt-text like this. I think that would lighten the mood.