As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An influential Greek cardiologist who has helped shaped the global debate on vaping was paid thousands of euros from ecig giant Juul via an offshore company he co-owns, myself, @ebersi.bsky.social and @stephanehorel.bsky.social can reveal www.theexamination.org/articles/juu...

That combination of high winds and creeping progress makes Melissa both unusual and unusually dangerous. Over the next day or so, the storm is on track to hammer Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and parts of the Bahamas with catastrophic flash flooding, destructive winds, and damaging waves.

One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what? @hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

Now Arizona has also said "no," and Vanderbilt has indicated it will do the same. That leaves just the University of Texas, which has been placed under the control of the Texas GOP and is going through what Greg Abbott calls an "ideological test" for conformity with Texas GOP ideology.

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships. Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

Excel turned gene names into dates in one-fifth of human gene papers, but still won't auto-wrap text. Yet another reason journalists should learn to code. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27552985/

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the employees said."

Nearly a dozen journalists who spoke with Prism described pushback from editors & managers surrounding coverage that centered or mentioned Palestinians. They were sidelined or harassed, while U.S. media adopted a pro-Israel bias that muzzled the truth. prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

One of our fact checkers, @sarasneath.bsky.social, has done killer reporting on fossil fuel companies funding university research. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.desmog.com/2024/12/19/m... 8/

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD) drilled.media/investigatio...

ICYMI yesterday, incredible reporting by @insideclimatenews.org and @propublica.org (with data from @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social) on the Texas oil & gas industry’s *massive* emissions from flaring and venting 👇

This was completely predictable. As I’ve been noting for several years, if you build LNG terminals you will increase domestic natural gas prices. It is designed to shift wealth from US energy consumers to gas producers - and it’s working.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

The Computation+Journalism Symposium will take place on December 11-12 at the University of Miami. Join us: cplusj2025.com The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/ We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!

NEW: Hockey fans were bombarded with gambling logos and adverts – sometimes as often as every 13 seconds – during TV coverage of high-profile games earlier this year, according to exclusive research shared with the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

UPDATE: 🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B. 😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates:

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The oil industry's Alliance to End Plastic Waste was created to "change the conversation – away from short-term simplistic bans of plastic," documents reveal unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

"Colorado’s three largest oil and gas producers were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that minimized the levels of a wide variety of pollutants, including arsenic and barium in the soil and benzene in groundwater." ARSENIC IN THE FUCKING GROUNDWATER!

Pam Bondi’s memo OK’ing Trump’s acceptance of the Qatari jet shouldn’t be secret. We’re suing with @weareoversight.bsky.social so the public can read it.

“The inquiry found that Edinburgh University became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of white supremacism in the 18th and 19th centuries, and who played a pivotal role in the creation of discredited “racial pseudo-sciences” that placed Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy”

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Remember the Taylor Energy spill in the Gulf? It was the longest-running oil spill in the US. The leak began in 2004, after Hurricane Ivan, and was capped in 2019. As the spill was going on, LSU named an engineering building in the Taylor Energy founder's name: www.lsu.edu/eng/about/pf...

Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge have all quit the expert advisory group of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) because the draft standards for net zero require them to refrain from developing new oil and gas fields and significantly reduce their oil and gas production. 🙄

Today is another day to ❤️ FOIAs

The other thing the ground is, is energy efficient. It holds cars up without any additional energy at all. The sky does not. It takes a lot of energy to get up, and stay up. The fuel/energy demands remain horribly impractical. That's an order of magnitude worse for the copter style ones...

✍️ My latest with @sarasneath.bsky.social for @desmog.com and @texastribune.org With edits by brilliant @phoebecooke.bsky.social and beautiful photos by Brenda Bazán www.texastribune.org/2025/07/03/t...

Environment groups say Eni is engaging in a campaign to stifle critics, with the company having filed at least six defamation lawsuits against journalists and NGOs since January 2019 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember the small town in Texas I investigated for @thexylom.com? It's back in the news again, thanks to Enbridge's relentless efforts to build a "blue ammonia" plant, despite our previous reporting that the Ingleside, TX, City Council unanimously denied their permit application. A great read:

I didn't think I could still be shocked by fossil fuel companies' lobbying tactics but this story, first revealed by Malene Emilie Rustad at the Norwegian publication E24, is amazing. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

"We were this little pocket of paradise. This area was known for fishing long before it was known for petroleum,” Carlton said.

🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants - Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the US chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.

If you're like why would they do this? Because the goal is to privatize weather forecasts. They've been really clear about this. It won't work and a lot of people will die. But some other people might get rich so