Book Excerpt: Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today- emotional survival in the digital age www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

In the race for green, at this point China is winning -Climate Update guyonclimate.com/2025/11/15/e...

Review: Death By Lighting, based on a book www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Johns River Gorge from Blowing Rock -one of the beautiful places in North Carolina.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is the only US federal official attending the global climate summit. How far we've fallen www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Humans, nature and frogs: We are all connected in many ways #nature #environment archive.ph/CKa7v

Why fact-based historical fiction must still negotiate with the truth. #writing #history #fiction lithub.com/emma-donoghu...?

For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been hoping that it would be the year when emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas would stop going up. They’ll have to wait another year. apnews.com/article/emis...

The Newest AI Slop Panic Is Both Fake and Real, In the Worst Way What's here now is bad, and what's coming is worse. Hang on to your humanity. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...

October 2025 globally,according to JMA-Japanese Meteorological Agency, had a temperature anomaly of +0.40C vs 1991/2020 baseline and was the 3rd hottest on record behind 2023 and 2024. Slightl different numbers from NASA (different datasets) but same ranking.

Early climate models got global warming right – but now US funding cuts threaten the future of climate science data #climate theconversation.com/early-climat...

Climate Update: The hidden toll happening beneath the ocean's waves #climate guyonclimate.com/2025/11/14/e...

“The Correspondent” Explores Rebirth in a Winter Season #books

Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith review – a wild ride with the poet of punk

What a Cranky New Book About Progress Gets Right #books #nonfiction dnyuz.com/2025/11/11/w...

A Brief History of American Socialism Michael Kazin on Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought #books #history lithub.com/a-brief-hist...?

China tests world's largest kite as a wind power alternative www.scmp.com/news/china/s...?

OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout If you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam. #AI prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...?

Hard Science and Human Drama in the year 2099: Extreme weather? You haven't seen it yet. Read a story of the future: 'The Hurricane Code' #climate #SciFi #CliFi #Environment #booksky #KindleUnlimited amazon.com/dp/B08J1SK814/

Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith review – a wild ride with the poet of punk

When Americans first became enamored with war #history lithub.com/why-is-ameri...?

How Former American Slaves Found New Lives in the North #history lithub.com/singing-for-...?

If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event. Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.

This feature is the second in our series on biodiversity collapse — and the complex solutions to address it. You can read all of our stories here: www.vox.com/climate/4649...

Climate Update: Interpreting Weather Disasters #climate guyonclimate.com/2025/11/12/e...

'The Age of Distraction' How Big Tech's unchecked power could harm us immensely

John Candy: A Life in Comedy #biography

'Killing the Dead- Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World'

Where the sky keeps bursting: The Eastern US and California archive.ph/T3gm0

Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event this year, 2025 has been the 2nd-warmest year on record for the year-to-date period, and is on track to end up as the 2nd- or 3rd-warmest year on record, behind only the El Niño-warmed years of 2024 and 2023:

How a German 'Werewolf's' Confessions horrified 1500's Europe

David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh

New paperbacks, from Sally Rooney, Alex Van Halen and others #books www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...?

John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf murder mystery, but you can't read it, at least for now #books lithub.com/john-steinbe...?

A longstanding push for urgent action on environmental toxins is landing in an unprecedented time in American politics. #environment undark.org/2025/11/06/t...?

Trump administration cuts funding for tsunami-detecting sensors which will go offline the end of this month archive.ph/eNQpY

Climate Update: On one of the least-known men who is a major influence on global climate policy #climate guyonclimate.com/2025/11/10/e...

Everything I am, all I feel, the people I love and hate all come through the prism of that night. 'When Saigon Surrendered' #fiction #humantrafficking www.amazon.com/dp/1717881262

As the Earth moves toward human-killing heat and storms, media and politicians are talking less about climate change. The emphasis now is on 'energy affordability.' #climate archive.ph/oyOL6

The Literati: A Novel- a tale of the book world

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How Culture Wars are Remaking Publishing #books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

"Three-quarters of refugees and other displaced people now live in countries facing high or extreme exposure to climate-related hazards, with repeated displacement becoming increasingly common." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴⚠️🌀🇵🇭Ongoing scary landfall of #Fungwong on northern Aurora in Luzon,as a cat.4 Typhoon with gusts over 230km/h.More than 100000 evacuated and 400mm of rain so far,few days after #Kalmaegi.⬇️ Latest 6 hours by Himawari9 #ClimateEmergency #COP30 #Philippines

Step outside, if you haven't yet today. It feels like April... except for all the leaves on the ground. Probably the warmest day we will see in awhile... #ncwx

No one could accuse Donald of being woke.

A heat wave in the Arctic and the Polar Vortex moves south: #climate

There are TWO Farmer's Almanacs. The OLD Farmer's Almanac is going strong....the other one is shutting down.

If you want to understand why the East US will be invaded by Arctic Air down to Florida in… checks notes… early November… look no further than the Arctic being en fuego - relatively speaking. That anomalously warm air/ blocking is “displacing” very cold air far to the South