'Simplistic framings of “climate migrants” obscure the complexity of climate-related mobility and its health implications' - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Immigrant Justice x Disability Justice x Worker Justice. #justiceforall #intersectionality #abolishice www.disabilityculturelab.org/posts/immigr...

"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social

#BigTech frames AI as a climate solution. But our new report takes off the rose-tinted smart glasses and shows a harsher reality: plenty of evidence that power-hungry generative AI is harming our planet, and little solid proof it can fight climate change.

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

March 1st is the Disability Day of Mourning, in memory of people with disabilities who were killed by family members or caregivers. At Rewire, we are committed to centering disability justice in our coverage. Thread below 🧵:

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

Genocide (which is what ICE are engaged in) is a disability justice issue #disability www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Charlottesville is seeking volunteers to help remove snow and ice, esp. for folks who aren't able to do it themselves due to age, disability, etc. www.cvillevolunteer.org/need/detail/

"We can learn to design better, to listen better, to include better. The principle is simple. No one should have to fight for a seat at the table when the table belongs to all of us." Our resilience is being tested from all sides, let's use every bit of creativity and interdependence we can.

The cruelty of this administration knows no bounds. It harms everyone, immigrant, disabled, parent, and child alike. All battles for human rights are connected. We must deconstruct false divisions and face state oppression with collective solidarity. #abolishICE

Following the violent assault of a disabled woman by ICE last week, and the many reports of abuses of people with disabilities in their concentration camps, it’s worth rereading this primer on Disability Criminalisation from the Center for Racial and Disability Justice

"more than 90 per cent of new renewable power is cheaper than building new fossil fuel plants. Investors see it. Governments see it. Communities feel it. Clean energy is faster to deploy, cheaper to run and more resilient in an increasingly volatile world." www.un.org/en/un-chroni...

Helping your disabled and elderly neighbors during big weather events is SO IMPORTANT

It's cold outside and snowy, too! Is climate change a hoax? Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms. In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall. That's why I call it Global Weirding!

"International law from below (...) can only emerge from counter-hegemonic practices – through social movements, indigenous resistance, labor struggles, environmental defense, and everyday transformations of power and rights within and across States, including at urban and local levels." 👇

Everyone, please check in on your ill, disabled, or elderly friends, family, neighbours, and coworkers, ideally BEFORE a storm hits your area. PWDs - take precautions for power outages, service disruptions, etc and share them with your support network. Be safe folks. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Public transit infrastructure will not reach its full potential as a sustainable transportation solution if it is not accessible. If we're serious about reducing vehicle miles travelled, we can, and must, do better at providing safe, accessible, inclusive public transport systems!

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds via @guardian bit.ly/4qBZ2dw #Water #Cities #Urban #Sustainability #Davos26 #LeadershipMatters @wrirosscities.bsky.social @weforum.org @sustainablefarming.bsky.social @yalee360.bsky.social

Martin Luther King, Jr’s Legacy: How the Civil Rights Movement Paved the Way for Disability Rights and Disability Justice Keith Jones, “Movements no longer have the luxury of holding on to internal isms, while claiming a demand for liberation.” www.americanbar.org/groups/diver...

I call on everyone in the climate movement with any privilege, starting with myself, to resist the temptation to retreat to a more quiet and serene life.

Coming soon: Growing out of several entangled emergencies, ‘Emergency Dream’ by @pollyrowena.bsky.social seeks to show the inextricability of Climate Justice & Disability Justice, drawing on close observation of the natural & human worlds. Publishing 16 March www.serenbooks.com/book/emergen...

Don't buy into the myth that "accessibility is only about adding alternative text to images." Alt text is important, of course. But there is so much more to accessibility, including headline structure, functional controls, color contrast, link text, plain language, and more.

NYC’s new mayor sees climate & affordability as a team play Experts say clean energy, building electrification & coastal resilience can cut emissions and energy bills while tackling inequality. If done right, climate action could help make NYC more affordable #ClimateEconomy

They're trying to hide the cost. The true cost of fossil fuels isn't at the pump. It's in hospital bills from polluted air, collapsed farms from drought, and trillion-dollar disaster recovery. Renewable energy is the bailout we actually need. #TrueCost #RenewableEnergy

Deforestation is actually making mosquitoes pickier, and they're choosing us. Wildlife's disappearing, so mosquitoes are switching to the easiest target around people. This could mean more dengue, Zika, yellowfever www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Deforestation #MosquitoBorneDisease #OneHealth

🔔 #GoodClimateNews alert 🔔 Bold climate action works, people! New York City’s congestion pricing program resulted in a 22% reduction in air pollution in just 6 months. https://bit.ly/4jFhDmi

AudioEye reports that in 2026, digital accessibility is mandatory for all online organizations, highlighting key laws and compliance standards.

Please know that disability is NOT a bad word, so we never need euphemisms like "differently abled," which tend to be for the comfort of abled folx, rather than any benefit to our disabled communities, as it tells us that you cannot handle the harsh truth that is our reality, navigating ableism! 🔥🔥🔥

The river Rhine is estimated to carry between 3,000 and 4,700 tonnes of macrolitter — pieces of litter larger than 25 millimetres in size — towards the North Sea every year, according to research published in Communications Sustainability. 🧪

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

how to talk to a computer and burn the earth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations.

"STOP MENTIONING CLIMATE CHANGE" is a piece of communications advice that is predominantly originating directly or indirectly from people who benefit from the slowest-possible pathway for climate action

It's bleak folks: The climate crisis is accelerating at an unprecedented rate while the fossil fuel industry has complete control of the levers of power in Washington DC. It's all tied together -- a corrupt oligarchy is happy to burn down our future so long as they continue to profit.

While most economist talk about the impacts of climate change as projections in the future, this professor says global warming has already reduced US incomes by 12% on average. @uarizona.bsky.social h/t @dharna.bsky.social news.arizona.edu/news/climate...

ICE is a disability justice issue. ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. Their actions, kill maim and disable. Kaden Rummler is permanently blind in one eye because ICE shot him with “less lethal ammo”. He has multiple skull fractures. He is now disabled. This is wrong.

I wrote about how neighbors can play a role in helping disabled and aging people plan for and evacuate when wildfires hit at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Also note: Disabled people, including chronically ill people, do tons of organizing and political action and things. Many of us are quite competent at that side of things but are still left out of our local communities. Others of us don't have the energy to do organizing anymore. It's complicated.

Related to the above: the stories here provide just one kind of example of how community-building and planning that does not intentionally seek out the people being abandoned and isolated and excluded and forgotten leads to the literal deaths of those people.

If you are serious about supporting your neighbors and the vulnerable members of your community, you will also need to go out of your way to address inconvenient needs that have pushed those people out of community in the past. This includes requiring masking and air cleaners.

DISABILITY IS A NATURAL PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE About 1 in 4 adults have a disability. Understanding disability deepens our empathy, strengthens our relationships, and helps everyone better support and advocate for a more inclusive world.

For Disabled folks, news coverage of the LA fires, which’ve now killed at least 28 people (many disabled), has been dark. Here’s a Top 4 🧵of (still too rare) skilled disability coverage from LA – so readers can see how climate change, and ableist neglect during disasters, impact Disabled people. 1/

Aliya Rahman told ICE she was disabled She told them she was on her way to a doctor appt They broke her window, cut her seatbelt & dragged her away like an animal She was headed to the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when they grabbed her. She was denied access to a doctor & tossed in detention

ICYMI: Accessibility Dynamics with High-speed Railway Network Expansion: A Line-specific, Granular Analysis

After going through 244 TB of open-source data provided by the HTTP Archive, we found out that the 2025 #accessibility metrics suggest stagnation where we expected incremental improvement. There's an obvious gap between what’s easy to measure and what’s easy to fix. bogdanlazar.com/daily/the-bi...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 People can’t read what they can’t see. If your audience has to squint, that’s not good design. Low contrast = low engagement. #AccessibleDesign #MarketingTips #SmallBusinessAustralia

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.