Excellent news for Juneteenth! *Gray Gold* by Mark Milton Chambers, on early lead mining in the middle Mississippi Valley, has been awarded a Clark C. Spence Book Award by the Mining History Association. #mininghistory #envhist #BlackHistorians

🌋Join us next week for fantastic lineup of speakers at our Center for Philosophy & History of Science @ BU Colloquium on PHILOSOPHY OF THE GEOSCIENCES held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th, 10am - 5:30. Event will be hybrid w/ in person Boston University & via Zoom. Register now for free at link bu.edu/cphs 🌏

This is in fact the cutest baby book reveal of all time -- and ALERTA is a book about earthquake warning systems I am interested to read! #earthquakes

Having Jay Turner come talk with my Energy History seminar is a highlight of this term! Check out *Charged* if you are interested in how we are going to power our future! Jay Turner

📌Save the date: upcoming Center for Philosophy & History of Science @ BU Boston Colloquium on *Philosophy of the Geosciences* held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th. Event will be hybrid with in person at BU Computing & Data Sciences Bldg room 263 & via Zoom by registering at link bu.edu/cphs Free & all welcome!

We all need stories of grace and hope in the face of climate crisis. Grist is awarding prizes for the best ones!

Super excited to announce our upcoming Center for Philosophy & History of Science @ BU Boston Colloquium on *Philosophy of the Geosciences* held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th. Event will be hybrid with in person at BU Computing & Data Sciences Bldg room 263 & via Zoom by registering at link bu.edu/cphs Free & all welcome!

Where in the US is new #solar generating capacity being built? How big is a new #windfarm compared to a new #natural gas power plant? Our #visualization has answers to these and other questions about what's happening in the #electricpower sector.

Excited to have Victor Seow come to my BC Energy History seminar class tomorrow and talk about coal, China, and the craft of writing. Victor Seow

Terrific stuff at BU!

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Early this morning (about 4 AM local time), a M4.0 occurred near Chandler, OK. The light shaking was widely felt across both OKC and Edmond. It occurred adjacent to several injection wells that have been injecting and lower volumes in recent years (1/n)

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EVERY SINGLE SAMPLE we took in Antarctica as part of our microplastic research contained plastic microfibres.

I found plastic from tourists in the penguin colonies.

We even found a big piece of plastic on the seabed.

Elementary school children shouldn't have to lobby for laws to keep them safe in their school buildings. Grown-up legislators should keep them safe. *We* should keep them safe.

Submissions open 2023 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Topic: Laws & symmetries in practice of physics (in honor of 40th anniv Nancy Cartwright's book How the Laws Physics Lie)
Prize: $1,000 + workshop
Deadline: Sept 10th, 2023
[email protected]

Have you heard of China-based CATL and wondered just how big a player it is in the battery world?

This great thread puts CATL's scale in context, along with lots of other useful analysis of the battery sector.

A longtime community advocate, state legislator, writer, educator, and Boston’s first Black mayoral candidate to advance to a general election, Mel King has passed away at the age of 94.

He is on today's 1,350 sq. ft. #GBHMural in the city where he spoke truth to power. RIP. 🙏

'There are complex, hand-wringing-worthy problems in our social life: deficits and debts and climate change. Gun violence . . . is not one of them. Gun control works on gun violence as surely as antibiotics do on bacterial infections.' Adam Gopnik