Finally, some good news. 🌊 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Finally, some good news. 🌊 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌: 18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean: #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️ #Marinescience 🦑 #scicom 🥼 📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.

Maryland’s first offshore wind farm lives on in novelty sock form. What about in real life? Likely, no. Not anymore. Read my latest reporting to find out why.👇 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... (Yes, that is *official* State of Maryland merch.)

Just watched the most entertaining nature documentary of life. Its 2 brothers who get stoned one day and decide to identify as many birds as possible in 1 year - but they know jacksh*t about birds. Experts on camera are identified as "guy we met on gravel road in AZ," etc. Its free to watch. 🦜

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸 This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️ It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈 youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

After a long day of discussing future field work to study #DeepSeaMining, this short documentary was a welcome reminder of the why - there is still so much we don’t know about the deep sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...

Wow, BlueSky! More than 100 of you watched in just the past few hours. 🙏 Please RT to see if we can get 100 more views by the time I wake up. Good night, internet angels. 👼

This short film is highly recommended! Free on Youtube. Fascinating insight into this growing issue of deep sea mining. Watch and share, please. #onehealth

Curious about deep sea mining? Check out this fantastic 20-min short on the subject by @fieseler.bsky.social, Jason Jaacks, and team. 🧪🌊

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸 This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️ It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈 youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

Great reporting by @insideclimatenews.org today about why the feds’ claims of a past “error” in approving a Maryland wind farm has legal scholars worried. insideclimatenews.org/news/1609202...

Maryland’s first offshore wind farm lives on in novelty sock form. What about in real life? Likely, no. Not anymore. Read my latest reporting to find out why.👇 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... (Yes, that is *official* State of Maryland merch.)

I’m back! ✍🏻 Took 7 days offline in California for a writing retreat. I spent most of the time working on my next big project — but I also got to leisurely sail through stunning migrations of sooty shearwaters.

Great reporting about a crew left adrift 15 mi offshore by Trump’s Revolution Wind halt: “When you’re on standby, it’s either eat, sleep or gym,” Walcutt said, adding that his co-workers also split time between a movie theater and videogame room. “Some of the guys go to the gym four times a day.”

Great reporting about a crew left adrift 15 mi offshore by Trump’s Revolution Wind halt: “When you’re on standby, it’s either eat, sleep or gym,” Walcutt said, adding that his co-workers also split time between a movie theater and videogame room. “Some of the guys go to the gym four times a day.”

I wrapped up a ton of Clare’s reporting in this week’s newsletter, featuring the somehow-worse-than-ever war on offshore wind:

Trump talks about ending offshore wind farms cause he cares about the endangered whales there. He says the wind turbines drive the whales "crazy." But federal cuts just defunded the plane that counts the endangered right whales' numbers every year. So....yeah. 🐳

If you didn’t think President Donald Trump’s attacks on offshore wind could get worse, think again.🫠 It’s time for a Friday news round up of Trump’s new scorch-earth strategy. Buckle in. 🧵 (By @kathrynkrawczyk.com and me) #energysky www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Slow Friday? 🐌 Want a deep-sea escape? 🪸 Take the time to watch the documentary I co-produced w/ Jason Jaacks for @sciam.bsky.social 👇

This new #JWST of stars being born just dropped, and it is GORGEOUS

Good night! 🌈

Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. It’s the only tactic that appears to work against the Trump administration’s crusades. Now, the Danish are giving it a go. My latest on the Revolution Wind saga: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

*NEW* Trump froze Revolution Wind and is now talking about stopping the 4 other offshore wind farms being built in America, according to @evanhalper.bsky.social. That means halting the only wind farm backed by a Republican governor: CVOW in Virginia. They just installed their 159th monopile...🍿

"The placenta provides no protection at all." Read @shannonosaka.bsky.social 💪

Thanks for the shout out @insideclimatenews.org! www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

*NEW* Revolution Wind is taking Trump to court over the controversial stop-work order. Watch this space for more.

"A recent study from Daymark Energy Advisors found that if contracted wind projects off the coast of New England had been in operation over the past winter, it could have saved ratepayers $400 million."

I wrote about how the the brain drain of emergency managers from FEMA and HUD is flowing directly into disaster consulting companies. It's probably time to talk about the privatization of American disaster response. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Trump is now enrolling multiple agencies in his anti-wind assault— random ones, too, like Health & Human Services. They’re gonna claim that the undersea cables that come onshore cause cancer. It’s a tired conspiracy with no evidence. I wrote about it last year, and how it took over my hometown 👇

Essential reading for anyone who lives in NJ, NY or New England. #offshorewind

If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, Revolution Wind, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. 💸 Great reporting by my colleague @jeffstjohn.bsky.social. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

“When you’re in international waters, they let you do it. You can do anything.” 🌊

The Revolution Wind farm was 80% complete when Trump stopped it. In the irony that has become ubiquitous to 2025, the fishermen who supplemented their incomes by working on the project (captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners) mostly voted from Trump. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Mining the Deep Sea Could Threaten a Source of Ocean Oxygen

Maybe you're thinking, "Don't fishermen hate offshore wind?" Then you might want to pair today's story with a story I wrote in June about the New England fishermen who made peace with offshore wind: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

Welp. The anti-wind folks got what they wanted. Trump just clawed back this $426 million grant from California.

If a dude offered to help you write crappy memos and essays, and you found out they were also helping children kill themselves, would you keep working with that dude?

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Welp. The anti-wind folks got what they wanted. Trump just clawed back this $426 million grant from California.

This guy created a super thread just posting headlines about Trump killing peoples’ jobs He just added my fishermen story from today and, man, it’s worth visiting this thread. 🧵 👇

“It’s madness to stop a project that already had permits,” said Jack Morris, a Massachusetts-based scalloper and manager for Sea Services who voted for Trump. ​“This is not something any of us planned for: the captains, the crew, the shore engineers, the people we buy food from for our trips.”

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

I’m on a podcast! 🪨🪸🦑 Thanks @feltman.bsky.social for having me on to @sciam.bsky.social’s show. We talked about “dark oxygen” and whats happened in the 12 months since the discovery making headlines. Listen (& then watch our mini doc starring @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @jjmarlow.bsky.social)👇

This is the 3rd story I have read *this week* where an AI chatbot successfully convinced someone to kill themselves. But this one is the first I read where the suicide also involved a murder. And not a single lawmaker has proposed banning this technology? As a parent, I am deeply worried.

Scoop: The Trump administration appears to be considering a move to label wind farms as intentionally harming migratory birds, a classification that would in the eyes of some legal experts label *any* project illegal. It would definitely be fought in court if pursued. @heatmap.news

I am a 41-year old writer with a PhD and today I learned a new word. I actually love when this happens! It’s like a tiny jolt of nerd adrenaline. 💉 Thanks @jamellebouie.net. I don’t think this happens much at The Other Place.