🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today. We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town. 👇 Gift link below. 1/3

Great @bradplumer @Harry_Stevens piece visualizing China's nuclear ambition. I'm biased, but I think a good satellite comparison is worth 1000 words. Incidentally, the score for aluminum smelters built since 1990 would be ~50-60 for China, 0 for the US. https://t.co/Dg314VKvKP

It costs 8x more to build a nuclear power plant in the US vs. China.

So cool to see a front (digital) page story at NYT on nuclear, and interactive too. I think this mostly gets the story right of why China is beating the US on nuclear energy, but will add a few nuances... https://t.co/wQsDxayHib

I’m not usually affected by the deaths of people I don’t know personally, but this one hurts. Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away, aged 29. I never met him, but I’ve spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours watching his videos. I got back into chess during the

In the past 3 days, two asteroids — 2025 PF2 and 2025 PU1 — passed closer than the geostationary satellites delivering our preseason #NFL games this weekend. #asteroid #astronomy

This is a nuclide chart. Number of Protons on Y axis Number of Neutrons on X axis The chart shows every known element and every known isotope. The proton number determines the element, the neutron number determines the isotope. The colour illustrates the half life of each

The EPA said it will stop updating a database that companies use to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chains. In July, EPA suspended the database's lead scientist because he signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration. https://t.co/XeisnMAV1I

sweet https://t.co/olo6z3AlZu

A clean energy boom was just starting. Now the GOP’s tax plan would kill most Biden-era incentives, but there’s a sticking point: G.O.P. districts have the most to lose https://t.co/3UiM2fQpZO

Another ⁦@maxinejoselow⁩ scoop: Interior Department ends air quality monitoring at all national parks

@niko_tinius The azimuthal equal-area projects the sphere onto a disk and preserves area across the projection. You can display the whole planet, but latitudes far from the center get very distorted. The clipped two-hemisphere approach avoids the distortion and fits nicely on a phone.

I first saw this last year in a map by @niko_tinius. Not sure if he invented it or saw it somewhere else. https://t.co/uCygvLcS1V

A cylindrical or pseudocylindrical (in this case Patterson's Natural Earth) projection will start looking real scrunchy at around 600 pixels, but the stacked Lamberts work great down to 300 pixels — as narrow as you'll ever need.

A trick for fitting world maps on phones: Stack two azimuthal equal-area projections, clipped at 90° longitude, each one rotated 180° from the other. The bottom map covers the top's Antarctica, which reduces the total height and looks nice. As seen in https://t.co/m3awSMZrLQ

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages A lawsuit by pipeline giant Energy Transfer claimed Greenpeace had played a major, costly role in protests nearly a decade ago. by @karenzraick https://t.co/DflkPBdxUn

NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, bringing the total to 274 Many of these are just a few miles across https://t.co/kR175jk3So

Where butterflies are disappearing in your backyards: “Nature collapses without them." https://t.co/VI4O2e1ZKS @CatrinEinhorn @Harry_Stevens

🦋 The study didn't investigate causes, but habitat disruption and pesticides likely contributed to declines. Climate change may have played a role: species saw larger drops in the south of their ranges, suggesting northward migration w/ temp. increase. https://t.co/r5aM3j2kzR

🦋 This is the first study to combine butterfly observations from thousands of surveys acros the country to create a complete picture of U.S. butterfly trends. Of 342 species, 245 suffered declines of at least 10 percent. Read the story here: https://t.co/r5aM3j2kzR 2/3