Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea news.mongabay.com/2025/11/armo...

🪨 A @natcomms.nature.com paper out today delivers a new warning about Trump's push for deep-sea mining. 🦐 The discharge waste from #deepseamining — if allowed to be done at commercial scale — will "likely to disrupt midwater food webs." 👇More here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t wait for the next installments in this series: Did Jews ruin the work place? Did Blacks ruin the work place? Did Asians ruin the works place? Keep up the great work @nytimes.com ! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

New Jersey voted yesterday for a candidate who aims to keep the state’s climate ambitions alive. The long-held vision of offshore wind turbines being central to these goals endures — for now. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

New Jersey voted yesterday for a candidate who aims to keep the state’s climate ambitions alive. The long-held vision of offshore wind turbines being central to these goals endures — for now. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Climate folks! 👋 Here’s a fantastic thread from the @climatedesk.org reporters that’s right up your alley.

Jack Ciattarelli promised to ban offshore wind from New Jersey's coast and lost. Mikie Sherrill focused on skyrocketing power bills and won. Here's my story about why her victory is a win for offshore wind. She's a longtime supporter of the sector. That's exactly why she talked about bills.👇

This article ends with perhaps the most important political insight from yesterday: Defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli had admitted to preferring Sinatra over Springsteen. Even Chris Christie, NJ's last GOP governor, is a Springsteen die hard. You can't cross the Boss and win Jersey. Sorry.

Feeling overwhelmed? Visit a college campus and talk to the students. I had the pleasure of speaking at my alma mater yesterday. Banished some of the overwhelming dread I’ve felt about the future, AI, and climate change in recent weeks. Jane Goodall said it best: “We must not give up hope.”

Don’t miss this pop-up webinar that @sammyroth.bsky.social is hosting in response to the Bill Gates’ recent statements claiming that climate change won’t be so bad for humanity after all. 👇

Could offshore wind farms off the coast of California kill bats? Researchers had been studying this novel and fascinating question — until the Trump administration yanked their funding: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... via @fieseler.bsky.social

I got a bat scoop just for Halloween 🦇 Earlier this month, a mysterious DOE 'hit list' was leaked to the press that put $24B in federal clean-energy funding on the chopping block. I just discovered that critical research studying bats in future wind farm areas has officially been axed. 🪓

it’s friggin bats (new from me) 🦇

We were on a separate EPRI grant on solar panel recycling from the Energy Department’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, also officially canceled by Trump last month. 🎃

The arbitrary cancellation of important research studies continues apace even as the government remains shuttered. Infuriating 😡

Halloween Shocker: Trump axes work to learn whether offshore wind farms harm bats. The project was among 351 federal awards recently slated for termination by the Energy Department. From our friends at @canarymedia.com:

Someone call Merlin Tuttle immediately! More great reporting via @fieseler.bsky.social / @canarymedia.com. (cc @batcon.org)

I got a bat scoop just for Halloween 🦇 Earlier this month, a mysterious DOE 'hit list' was leaked to the press that put $24B in federal clean-energy funding on the chopping block. I just discovered that critical research studying bats in future wind farm areas has officially been axed. 🪓

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Apparently this was the highlight of my kids museum field trip today. Happy fall, y’all . 🍂

Thanks to @climatedesk.org for naming my story the weekly "Editor's Pick" link.motherjones.com/view/68ee7a6...

When podcasting was in its infancy, I was obsessed with @99pi.org. Like 12 years ago they made an episode called “HEYOON” which I think about more than any other podcast episode ever. Thought about it today in fact. Took me a decade to realize the reporter who made it was THE @agoldman.bsky.social

Takes some real guts to make a whole post about rising electricity bills using AI art that consumed 50x more electricity than if you just used a stock photo. 🫠

PLEASE AMPLIFY 🔈 I hear that some staffers at Interior Department and NOAA are being called back to the office from furlough for "administration priorities." I'm on Signal if this includes you or you have more information: @clare.14

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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

PLEASE AMPLIFY 🔈 I hear that some staffers at Interior Department and NOAA are being called back to the office from furlough for "administration priorities." I'm on Signal if this includes you or you have more information: @clare.14

Great reporting from POLITICO/E&E News's Benjamin Storrow about U.S. #offshorewind developers retaining three different Trump-connected lobbyists in a last ditch effort to make peace. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Thanks to @climatedesk.org for naming my story the weekly "Editor's Pick" link.motherjones.com/view/68ee7a6...

Great investigation here 👀

SCOOP from me: I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built. Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

Thanks to @motherjones.com and @michaelmechanic.bsky.social for republishing my story. 🐳

I guess now we'll never know.

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Trump claimed wind farms kill whales—and then quietly axed research into the issue

Sometimes I feel like I work at The Onion. Like, my article today could easily have run under some version of this 👇 Trump Heroically Saves Whales From Wind Farms By Ending All Research Studying Whales and Wind Farms @bencollins.bsky.social

For my PhD dissertation chapter, I spent months shadowing Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary folks trying to prevent this back in 2015 — fixing water quality, making more no-take areas. But we all saw the writing on the wall. All the "management" in the world can't stop a changing climate.💔

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Great piece by @fieseler.bsky.social Given that the flattening of the #rightwhale decline coincides with offshore wind development's increase, those who use the cherry-pick-a-corelation-to-suit-my-story (aka Shellenberger's Dictum) would conclude that offshore wind is good for whales /snark 🐳🌍🦑

Sometimes I feel like I work at The Onion. Like, my article today could easily have run under some version of this 👇 Trump Heroically Saves Whales From Wind Farms By Ending All Research Studying Whales and Wind Farms @bencollins.bsky.social

SCOOP from me: I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built. Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

PSA to the scientific community: If you're hosting a hybrid scientific meeting where researchers can attend in-person and virtual but reporters are only allowed *in-person attendance* please put that policy on your website. Don't let a reporter find out the day before. Also, WTF.

Don't forget about the wrecking ball Trump's taking to decarbonization plans decades in the making In Mass., officials expected offshore wind to provide 50% of the state's power needs by 2050. Trump has thrown sand in the gears of all but one of New England's wind farms @miriamwasser.bsky.social

Governor Doug Burgum, at his Senate confirmation hearing: "We need an all-of-the-above strategy." Secretary Doug Burgum, yesterday: "Wind is bad for everybody." www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

🎓 Thrilled to be returning to my alma mater in two weeks for Energy Week at Duke! 🗣️ I'll be speaking at a Nov. 3 panel & dinner at the Brodhead Center. Register via link. 🍺 I'll be getting a post-event beer at my old haunt Bull McCabe's in downtown Durham. Dukie & Carolina friends, get in touch!

Just got a press release that a *Canadian premier* will keynote the U.S. offshore wind sector's biggest conference. If that's not a sign of the times, not sure what is. 🇨🇦🥴

I disagree. In my experience, sources are more willing to stick their neck out and talk because they know the stakes are higher. I think what this article is describing is that sources are more selective in who they talk to. Sources are shopping around to find reporters and outlets they trust most.

Just got a press release that a *Canadian premier* will keynote the U.S. offshore wind sector's biggest conference. If that's not a sign of the times, not sure what is. 🇨🇦🥴

By early next year, the biggest offshore wind farm in the United States will be up and running, providing 2.6 GW of clean, renewable energy! @canarymedia.com @fieseler.bsky.social https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/dominion-virginia-offshore-wind-online-2026

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