🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @politico.com is hiring an editor to guide coverage of California energy, environment, climate and transportation policy. politico.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/politi...

Colliding climate change risks from dirty air and extreme heat compound the disparate burdens many residents of a N. Calif. county already face. A new report from #PSEHealthyEnergy breaks ground by asking community members how to reduce those harms. Read more at @insideclimatenews.org

"The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world." www.theguardian.com/environment/... @dpcarrington.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Every American needs to watch this:

From me: Navajo Council urges ICE, DHS to recognize tribal ISs, honor status

Capital B is building an archive of Black oral history, powered by you, with stories told in your voices and words. https://capitalbnews.org/oralhistoryproject/

The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can their enforce treaty rights.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Here's an Audre Lorde Poem

Kavanaugh stops come to Indian Country. Horrible. Predictable.

Hundreds of workers who finish luxury countertops now have #silicosis, a deadly, irreversible but preventable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. But it’s the manufacturers Republicans want to protect. More at @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1701202...

The timing matters a lot on this effort to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research. New reporting -- www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

DUE FRIDAY: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19. Learn more:

Today, we join unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country as they stand shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality, and accuracy of our journalism.

This reminds me of @petridishes.bsky.social's hilarious and devastating piece in @theatlantic.com on Florida's elimination of vaccine mandates www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

Evidence that the people killed by the U.S. were actually drug traffickers is expected to be released with unredacted records of Epstein Files, Trump’s tax returns, and Bigfoot shooting JFK. #RadioFreeAmerica www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Negotiators for 7 states say they’ve made progress in talks on how to share the shrinking Colorado River, but they’ve missed an initial federal deadline. “Conditions on the river continue to be problematic — more problematic over time as those reservoirs decline.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

If any researchers--particularly early career scientists--would like to share their experiences trying to secure a PhD, postdoc, or asst prof position in the current funding/political environment, please let me know. I'm working on a story to run in January. You can be on the record or anonymous.

So thrilled to share the launch of this new project, Vital Signs, with climate desk readers. @who.int says climate change threatens to erode 50 years of public health gains. What does that look like? We’ll be reporting from five continents. First story in the series: grist.org/health/valle...

This week two of my colleagues and I wrote about the Energy Fuels uranium ore transport. This is my article: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Call for Applications: Press On’s Freedomways Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications for its 8-month fellowship from March to Oct 2026, for 6 reporters and storytellers from the South. form.jotform.com/252935798928...

Asheboro pours a toxic chemical into the drinking water supply, does not play well with others & seems to have the municipal version of oppositional defiance disorder insideclimatenews.org/news/2710202...

12 months $6,600 stipend Connection to editors and a community of journalism professionals. Deadline to apply to become an early career fellow of the The Open Notebook, supported by @bwfund.bsky.social: October 31. 🧪

When I asked why I had been arrested, they answered ⬇️ "We have killed all the journalists. They died once. But we brought you here and you will die hundreds of times." 🙏🏼🇵🇸 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

How to: 🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care 🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans 🔘 Report on polls about trans issues From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

‘US Supreme Court turns down Oak Flat copper mine case for a 2nd time’ by @debkrol.bsky.social

On the Colorado River, there is no more water. That's the warning from a coalition of environmental groups urging for action and transparency regarding the river's future. My latest: insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

Oscar Guevara said he and his younger brother will head to El Salvador to bring their father cameras, clothes and other personal belongings. “At least he is not dead, and that’s the only thing giving us hope,” Oscar Guevara said in Spanish.

The Uproot Project stands with the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling for the safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.

Workshop announcement! Join us in November for a hybrid workshop investigating the potential impacts in the Great Lakes Basin of shifting federal policy and spending. Applications due October 15. Learn more about what we have planned and how to apply! www.ijnr.org/2025-great-l...

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

Here's the deal folks. We haven't yet hit our fundraising goal. We have one more campaign planned for the year, but the long-term existence of this magazine hinges to a decent degree on readers signing up as recurring donors. If you value what we are making, it would mean a lot if you signed up

A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concluding in a 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, just one of which would legally constitute a genocide.

If you're an early-career journalist, consider applying for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's paid, mentored fellowship and follow in the footsteps of @katherinejwu.com, @janehu.bsky.social, @sciwriabdul.bsky.social, @1juliarosen.bsky.social, @celiaford.bsky.social and many more! Deadline: 10/31.

Are you a science or environment journalist who has covered (or may cover in the future) ocean conservation stories, including but not limited to stories about sharks? I'm always available for a background briefing to teach you key topics before you pitch or write a story.

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

You can't keep good data down. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

I became a teacher for three reasons: to set up course management systems, worry about AI dissolving my profession, and be broke in my 40s.

Good news 🎉 The mining company that touched off a firestorm with its proposal to mine lithium at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is walking away from the project. This project was hotly contested by conservation groups and Tribal and local governments. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/40NcVL8

@theopennotebook.bsky.social turns 1️⃣ 5️⃣ this year! to celebrate, we're having our first Town Hall on August 26 at 2p ET/11a PT. register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Joseph Lee’s new book Nothing More of This Land explores how land, ancestry and history intersect in his tribe’s Wampanoag homelands on Martha’s Vineyard. buff.ly/qLDt6tC

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix, especially for Black residents. A budding movement might help address both issues.

A major flare at a gas processing facility in the Permian basin

The EPA is now the Emphysema Production Agency