The Trump FBI raided the author's home today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.' drilled.media/news/Venezue...

You might want to sit down for this, but the panel that just idiotically told Americans to eat more beef and dairy, for their health, might have had conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

How is academia intertwined with the fossil industry? What does this mean for academic freedom and the climate transition? Browse the interactive report of the Dutch Mapping Fossil Ties Coalition. Search your favourite fossil company, university or just flip through! mappingfossilties.org/report

A new report from @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social documents oil spills, gas releases and climate pollution at Energy Transfer’s web of pipelines nationwide. The company and its affiliates have reported 300 spills & 126 gas releases since 2018. @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

Venture Global founders and co-chairs under scrutiny for buying millions in shares after meeting with senior Trump officials, who approved a key export license that will allow the LNG company's expansion in Europe to move forward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

A really nice analysis of the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Lots of excellent data-packed figures.

Cool opportunity for college students! And it's paid 🤑

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

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”