When I started reporting out a podcast on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial, accusing GP of fueling the Standing Rock movement, I had no idea the twists & turns the reporting would take. Here are some key documents I uncovered as I worked on SLAPP'd (THREAD) drilled.media/investigatio...

The cruelty continues. This is horrific.

"If nothing else, [space exploration] provides a chance for every person on Earth to see ourselves... from an out-of-this-world vantage point that might renew an appreciation for this singular planet of ours," @jasondovemark.bsky.social writes in this #EarthDay special.

In 2018, following a deadly heat wave in South Korea, Borim Kim founded Youth 4 Climate Action, which filed the first lawsuit in Asia against a government for failing to adequately act on the #climatecrisis. Kim won the #GoldmanEnvironmentalPrize for her leadership along with five other winners.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

"The Roadless Rule doesn’t prevent fire management—it encourages managers to think carefully... Roadless areas are important backcountry wildlands w/ significant ecological, recreational, & wildlife habitat value." Great op-ed by a former MT forest supervisor. www.lewistownnews.com/commentary/o...

Vaux’s swifts migrate thousands of miles each spring and autumn. They spend 99 percent of their life in motion, and researchers have long questioned the biological rhythms of these murmurations. In this essay from our Spring 2026 issue, writer Astra Lincoln questions the spiritual rituals, too.

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

A new model for ocean protection is taking shape on Canada’s Pacific coast. British Columbia’s Great Bear Sea brings together 17 First Nations with federal and provincial partners to safeguard 102,000 sq. km of ocean. Read more: https://bit.ly/4tFzRrH ✏️: Serena Renner & 📸: Eli Wolpin

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

We know it's hard to focus right now amid such devastation, but today is the last day in a short public comment period about the government's proposal to revoke a 10-mile buffer around New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park. If you care about this living cultural site, send a comment.

Incredibly honored to see my @biographic.bsky.social feature "Welcome to the Great Bear Sea" (edited by the talented @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social) on the long list for the Environmental Reporting category of the 2026 @oneworldmedia.bsky.social awards 🙏

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The American West is facing historic levels of snowmelt following a warm winter and then a sweltering March heat wave — alarming scientists. In this @theguardian.com repost, senior reporter @gabriellecanon.bsky.social shares the grim realities of what the melt-off means for California and beyond.

The US-Israel war on Iran has drained the global carbon budget faster than the 84 lowest-emitting countries combined. “Burning up the annual emissions of Iceland in two weeks is something we really cannot afford,” Frederick Otu-Larbi tells @damiengayle.bsky.social for @theguardian.com.

It was rewarding to help edit this feature for the Spring 2026 issue of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social. Journalist KC Cheng documents Ukraine’s rich wild-food-gathering tradition that’s surviving in spite of, or maybe because of, the risks posed by the Russian invasion.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Earth Island Journal is seeking pitches for an upcoming special edition on education and the environment. Know of an incubation of environmental innovation? Censoring content that's threatening the climate movement? Surprising impact of global heating on learning? Message us!

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

In a poignant @earthislandjournal.bsky.social essay, @jasondovemark.bsky.social questions whether our upside-down world and politics might give rise to a new coalition against the "Machine" — the "rapacious capitalism, digital enclosure, and a hollowed-out culture that devalues life and spirit."

As EIJ Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren was wrapping up our Spring 2026 issue, she noticed some common threads — namely violence against humans and violence against the earth, which are intimately connected. But so are “bravery and resilience under harsh, sometimes unimaginable, circumstances."

Our Spring 2026 issue hits newsstands soon! Inside, you’ll find Ukrainian mushroom foragers, Bosnian bee hunters, child farmworkers, murmurating swifts, paper-cut sea creatures, and unlikely allies against “the Machine.” Subscribe to our print issue today! donate.earthisland.org/page/20964/d...

When Robert Bullard began speaking about the connections between race and environmental harm, he was a voice in the wind. Now, these connections are widely recognized. To close out #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re revisiting our 2015 Conversation with Bullard, which feels all the more relevant today.

Today, @biographic.bsky.social published its first special issue: Conservation Enters a New Era One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here. www.biographic.com/conservation...

In the latest @earthislandjournal.bsky.social newsletter, I write about joining a local resistance group and witnessing the power of strangers ✊ donate.earthisland.org/page/email?m...

I spent 17+ years writing Letters FROM the Editor. So it’s kind of nice to write a Letter TO the Editor. Some thoughts of mine from the March edition of @theatlantic.com

While the public has been defending Minnesota against ICE assaults, Congress has been pushing for copper mining in the Boundary Waters. “Most Americans wouldn’t support it if they knew about it,” writes @jasondovemark.bsky.social. “The proposed pillage is happening under the cover of tear gas.”

“Community is being built,” says Chloe Maxmin of Dirtroad Organizing. “It’s not just showing up for the sake of showing up; it’s showing up because your community needs you.” In this Winter 2026 Conversation, Maxmin discusses how to connect across differences, and shares what else gives her hope.

A reminder that, while some of the damage that Trump & GOP are doing might seems temporary, the damage they're doing to the planet is permanent: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

The Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

Scientists at @projectceti.bsky.social record and listen to sperm whales off Dominica to decode their complex communication. The research is moving us closer to interspecies communication, opening up legal and ethical questions as well as opportunities for conservation, writes Georgia Good.

Beautiful writing about finding sanctuary in the night sky. A balm for a heavy week in a mad world. By @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social, in the Winter 2026 issue of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social.

Through unchecked resource extraction and fossil fuel consumption, “we’re doing nothing less than cooking ourselves,” writes @coxstan.bsky.social in today’s opinion column. The exit path is #degrowth, which would not only help us stave off collapse but also usher in a better, more beautiful world.

“Treating individual fish as interchangeable reinforces the belief that they are livestock at best, that there’s not much going on in the underwater world,” writes @tkdano.bsky.social in her Winter 2026 Beyond Human column. Read about her discovery of fish blindness and a desire to see.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The solution to protecting loons from lead poisoning is straightforward, writes @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social. Yet efforts to educate anglers about the dangers of lead tackle and convince them to switch gear have hardly moved the needle. Why? In two words: gun rights. From @biographic.bsky.social

This past year ICE arrested and put zip ties on children Shot *priests* in the head with nonlethal rounds Raided an entire apartment building (which led to zero arrests) And today, proved Tim Walz right by shooting and killing a woman-a citizen-in Minneapolis Republicans When does it end

@billmckibben.bsky.social today in @earthislandjournal.bsky.social providing crucial perspective on US imperialism and #Greenland — namely on the country's two-mile-thick ice sheet and #climateaction the world could learn from. Republished from billmckibben.substack.com.

With Venezuela effectively “handing over” oil to the US, the Trump administration is now ramping up threats to acquire Greenland. But “there’s only one truly vital strategic asset in Greenland,” writes @billmckibben.bsky.social, “one thing that could change the world. And that’s the ice... ”

A bit of good news: An effort to turn California forests into a feedstock for biomass energy in the UK went down in flames, via @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Who drops a feature two days before Christmas? I do. And I hope you'll read it! It's about a bird I love dearly, and how its survival has somehow gotten tangled up with American gun culture. Oh, and it's got some Mary Oliver in it. www.biographic.com/why-are-loon...

Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph every last species living in the world’s zoos and sanctuaries — before it’s too late. @serenarenner.com offers a sneak peek of the photographer and his online Photo Ark, which invites viewers to discover both the wonder and fragility of nature.

Israel’s war and occupation in Palestine has damaged vast amounts of cropland. In the West Bank, a social enterprise is equipping farmers with the resources they need to cultivate their lands and establish autonomy over food production. @pragathiravi.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

To better understand the atmospheric rivers flooding Washington State and British Columbia — and some solutions for managing water more holistically, especially in former lakes and wetlands — check out my 2023 feature "A River Runs Above Us," published in the erstwhile Hakai Magazine. #AR #floods

After 175 years, @yuroktribe.bsky.social in Northern California is regaining ownership of a village site and section of Prairie Creek, where it will restore salmon, native plants, and Indigenous sovereignty. It's a first-ever co-management partnership with national and state parks on #triballand.

Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u... The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:

Our Winter 2026 print issue is out soon. Inside, you’ll find features about the post-wildfire future of a historic French wine region, one of the last oak groves in southern Syria, an all-women Maasai ranger team in Kenya, and more. Can't wait? Then subscribe! donate.earthisland.org/page/20964/d...

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.