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The drought in Texas and Oklahoma is spreading into Kansas and growing at a really frightening rate: americanwaterblog.com/drought-maps


I just tried to read a @forbes article and got three separate popups over it. If you don't want me reading your content, just say so.


Farallons researchers may need to shut down their field station if the drought continues: baynature.org/articles/droug… via @baynature


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Via @jordanbrianl MT @J_A_C_S: Should this restaurant have had a chemist consult on the appeal of an "Hg" promo?

WaterWired's tweet image. Via @jordanbrianl MT @J_A_C_S: Should this restaurant have had a chemist consult on the appeal of an "Hg" promo?

This week's drought maps bring more bad news for California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma: americanwaterblog.com/drought-maps


Happy Earth Day everyone. To celebrate, I spent this morning away from the laptop and phone, hiking then gardening. Now, work.


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Elliott State Forest parcel to be sold to Seneca Jones, drawing environmental lawsuit orne.ws/1h6tN3C


@ThisRosencranz I'm sure that's true of many state systems. Some are getting better at this. I don't doubt that some are getting worse.


@ThisRosencranz I'd argue that academia as a whole is quite diverse. But rising cost is certainly going to have an effect on that.


@ThisRosencranz Certainly something to watch and worry about. Academia isn't helping its case with sky-high tuition or paywalled research.


.. If anything, voting is more vital in a biased system, because it's the only balance against concentrated power. TL;DR: Apathy bad.


I've heard a few people now interpreting the "U.S. is an oligarchy" paper as "voting doesn't matter". It doesn't say anything of the sort...


@missmolamola I go to the market and it just gets weirder. Blocked as well.


@missmolamola I'm going to let curiousity lose just this once. I don't really want to know.


@missmolamola Even knowing how many trolls there are on the internet, I wouldn't have thought ocean acidification would have its own.


I just read a headline that said "Future droughts worse than expected". Um..


Former drilling chief warns of oil spill threat: tinyurl.com/kwkrmmj


The best thing I can get in my inbox is a response from a scientist about their most recent paper. Thrilled to get started on this post.


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