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The LakeBrowser provides satellite derived lake water quality data for over 10,000 Minnesota lakes since 2002. Check out our recent update: monthly 2017-2025!

[Quincy Lee @QuincyEdmundLee]

renewable power has become insanely cheap

legacy energy sources are being competed out of the market year by year starting with coal

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

🇺🇸🛢️US oil and petroleum product inventories just hit a 22 year low.

The last time stockpiles were this low, the iPhone didn't exist....

48 hours ago, ExxonMobil's SVP Neil Chapman told CNBC inventories were heading to "really, really low levels" and physical Brent would move to $150–160 in 2 to 3 weeks.

This chart is what Chapman was looking at when he said it.

Here's the question every trader should be asking: if combined crude and product inventories are at a 22-year low, why is Brent still trading at $96?

The answer is in my latest article, link in the below comments

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Australia is replacing coal and gas power with solar and wind—

At the turn of the millennium, Australia got more than 80% of its electricity from coal. This has dropped to less than 45%.

The chart shows how the country’s electricity mix has changed in recent decades.

In the 2000s and early 2010s, coal was initially replaced by gas, with only moderate growth in solar and wind. But in the last five years, solar and wind have been deployed much more quickly.

Gas is now on the decline, too. In 2023, solar overtook gas to become Australia’s second-largest electricity source.

While coal is declining, it still supplies much more of Australia’s power than most high-income countries.

(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and @parriagadap.)

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Wildfires are creating unhealthy air far from active flames.

According to a new NASA study, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the U.S. since 2015. NASA’s satellite data and models help track air quality patterns across states and fire seasons.

[Quantum Tech ⚛ @QuantumTech_X]

Imagine waking up and finding an island has drifted across the lake. Yes, that’s a real thing🤔 watch this👇

[Popular Science @PopSci]

“You’d think if any ecosystem could hide from the effects of warming and big human footprints, it’d be this one. But it’s not so.” https://t.co/GguNkdC1oA

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

The ocean especially the phytoplankton biomass is one of the lungs of the Earth that allows us to exist
The other is the world forests like the Amazon and Congo Basin
We are killing both these lungs and both lungs are dying
They call this progress growth and development

[LakeBrowser @LakeBrowser]

Higher oil and gas prices coming soon, industry and analysts warn

Summer travel could get a lot more expensive as Strait of Hormuz remains closed and oil reserves dwindle

https://t.co/GhJlTuIg0J

[LakeBrowser @LakeBrowser]

Administration to announce nearly $700 million in coal support

https://t.co/HXvxT3acEZ

[LakeBrowser @LakeBrowser]

The Administration aims to pull science funding under tighter political control

https://t.co/6DNQaBJRGm

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Schoolchildren on their way to school during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, carrying lunch pails and books while wearing goggles and cloth masks to shield themselves from the suffocating dust storms that swept across the Great Plains.

During the 1930s, a combination of severe drought and decades of aggressive plowing stripped away the native prairie grasses that had anchored the soil across the Great Plains. When powerful winds arrived, millions of tons of topsoil were lifted into the air, creating massive "black blizzards" that darkened skies as far away as Chicago, New York, and even ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Dust Bowl affected parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, forcing an estimated 2.5 million people to leave their homes. Schools often remained open despite the conditions, and children frequently wore goggles, scarves, and homemade masks to protect their eyes and lungs from the ever-present dust.

The disaster helped spur major changes in American farming. The federal government established the Soil Conservation Service in 1935, promoting contour plowing, crop rotation, windbreaks, and other practices still used today to reduce erosion.

On April 14, 1935, known as "Black Sunday", a single dust storm carried an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil across the Great Plains, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

© Historical Photos

#archaeohistories

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

California is testing solar panels over canals — and the idea is surprisingly simple.

The panels generate clean power without taking up new land, while the shade helps slow evaporation from the water below.

UC Merced researchers estimate that covering California’s 4,000-mile / 6,437-km canal network could save up to 63 billion gallons / 238 billion liters of water a year — enough for the residential needs of more than 2 million people.

Early results from Project Nexus are already showing major reductions in evaporation and aquatic weed growth.

A solar farm that also saves water — built over infrastructure that already exists.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

SERIOUSLY, FUCK YOU, @CBS.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Forests are a beautiful thing and the best carbon sequestration device out there. Let's do all we can to protect them.

We only have one planet. Defend it. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateAction #climate #energy #stopdeforestation #nature #rewilding #cop30

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This electric car was built in 1912 and got a #solar power upgrade in 1960. It isn't for lack of solutions that we haven't solved this crisis.

No more delays. No more excuses. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #Climate #energy #renewableenergy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The Arctic is warming at a rate up to four times faster than the planet as a whole and has lost a third of its sea ice volume in just two decades: https://t.co/I7YnTcqbvX

There is a no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

[LakeBrowser @LakeBrowser]

How the Administration Plans to Politicize Federal Grants

https://t.co/Kqe5xajwNf

[LakeBrowser @LakeBrowser]

Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft

https://t.co/87kec2LKsG

[𝓡𝓪𝔂 @ray_soto15]

USA should do the same.