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Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.

Congratulations @kaibosworth.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @rrr3006.bsky.social for 2025 IHG Research Grant Award!!

For my latest for @rollingstone.com , I take a deep dive into every dirty gift Trump's massive tax-and-spending bill gives the fossil fuel industry, and takes from everyone else. Spoiler: it's worse than you think. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The profound misrepresentation of Zohran’s positions (on police, Israel) and the viability/scale of his policy platform (modest tax increases for small-scale pilot programs) by Democrats and the media are what you would expect from bad faith opponents, which makes me think that's who they are.

Come and join us at the Conference on Centring justice in climate risk management for transformative change at IIASA in December this year. The call for abstracts has been extended to 7 July. See more in the link below.

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January 19

News item: the global average temperature in 2024 surpassed the 1.5C threshold set by the Paris accord

The call is out! In Oct 2025, Aotearoa/New Zealand hosts the world’s most significant climate adaptation event: #AF2025. Online & in-person. Hosted by UC & UN World Adaptation Science programme & consortium sponsors. A key focus is Oceania & Indigenous solutions. Join us! adaptationfutures2025.com

There's an amazing Palestine Studies guide up on the University of Chicago library site! Check it out: guides.lib.uchicago.edu/palestine

Our paper "Defining climate finance justice" is out now, open access. @laurla11.bsky.social agsci.source.colostate.edu/research-pap...

Quite helpful thread(s) by Prof @lisaschipper.bsky.social on the evolution of adaptation, conceptual overlap and tensions with development, challenges in guiding policymakers, implications on vulnerability, and maladaptation. Please read!!

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4eFnQus

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Looking for literature that focuses on the role of geopolitics as a driver of climate change adaptation projects in the Global South. I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Deforestation is a complicated political process to manage and sustain https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/725051