In @atmosmag.bsky.social : On the 20th anniversary of the costliest American storm, experts reflect on the resulting federal law now protecting pets from climate disasters. atmos.earth/hurricane-ka...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From snail mucin to IV drips, longevity products and wellness supplements come at a high environmental cost. In reality, they’re doing little to fix the real threats to human health. atmos.earth/surprising-c...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : For Dr. Wendy Johnson, the climate crisis and the health care crisis are the same story. Her new book, Kinship Medicine, offers a blueprint for a more connected, ecological form of care. atmos.earth/the-climate-...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : This piece is part of a co-publishing partnership between Atmos and Unthinkable, where a professional, climate-aware therapist responds to your questions about navigating the emotional toll of the climate crisis. atmos.earth/tools-to-cop...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Instead of exhibiting characteristics as a unified whole, Earth represents a vastly more complex—and less coordinated—system. atmos.earth/from-ant-col...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : While the United States celebrates independence, millions are denied basic dignity. A Lakota tradition of radical equality offers a different perspective that sees all people as part of a whole. atmos.earth/this-july-4-...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : The fall of the Assad regime has offered the Syrian people a revolutionary moment to rebuild with the environment in mind. atmos.earth/syrians-want...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : At California’s Salton Sea, where cracked shores meet chemical haze, Lío Mehiel performs a ritual act of resilience in the face of toxicity. atmos.earth/in-photos-an...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In this week's Overview newsletter, our editor-in-chief Willow Defebaugh follows in the creative foosteps of foxes atmos.earth/following-in...

Funeral services like burial and cremation can have high environmental costs. But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2. Photos: Resting Reef

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Across the Global South, a new generation of designers is reimagining architectural failure as a tool for adaptation and survival in a warming world. atmos.earth/how-abandone...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future. atmos.earth/why-one-geol...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Co-producers of David Attenborough’s latest film spearheaded a program that equips ocean towns with tools for creating and sustaining their own national parks at sea. atmos.earth/how-coastal-...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In this week's The Overview newsletter, a weekly meditation on nature from Editor-in-Chief Willow Defebaugh, she contemplates the sun. atmos.earth/armed-with-h...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : The evolutionary ancestors of house cats evolved in the desert, but that doesn’t make them immune to heat waves. atmos.earth/the-surprisi...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From climate grief to political resistance, the rise of modern magic reflects a broader shift in how people relate to power and land. atmos.earth/in-a-burning...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Whatever form they take, the bits of the natural world we collect and carry with us connect us back to the landscapes we call home. atmos.earth/wild-relics/

"Aren’t researchers supposed to be perfectly objective, unemotional, and neutral about the world we study? I can’t be. I need to declare a conflict of interest regarding Earth: Everyone I love lives here." In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found deep-sea spiders that consume methane. These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live. Photos: Shana Goffredi

Fifty countries have ratified the High Seas Treaty, which would protect 30% of the world's oceans. The treaty will only become legally binding after 60 countries join. Major nations including the U.S., U.K., and China have yet to do so. We cannot afford to keep waiting to protect our oceans.

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Dr. Kate Marvel explores the grief, anger, wonder, and love she feels studying climate change in an excerpt from her new book, Human Nature. atmos.earth/the-emotiona...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In an excerpt from her new book, Wonderment, writer Amber C. Snider outlines six ways to tune into the emotional and spiritual power of water this Ocean Month. 🌊 atmos.earth/lessons-from...

The damage done to ecosystems by deep sea mining might be irreversible. Deep-sea mineral extraction could damage biodiversity up to 25 times more than land mining, and restoration could cost twice as much as extraction, according to one report. Read more here:

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Photographer Felix Gundlach documents communities in the Himalayas who build, carry, and live without roads or waste. atmos.earth/where-the-ro...

If you’re worried about property destruction wait until you hear about climate change

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In this week's Overview newsletter, our editor-in-chief Willow Defebaugh reflects on migration: across the natural world, migration is sacred—and critical. 🦋 Read the full edition here atmos.earth/across-the-n...

How does air pollution affect mental health? - Research looked at records of 14,800 people in Bradford to see what happened after they moved to more polluted area Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New maps show reforesting areas across the globe could remove 1.5bn tonnes of CO2 a year without harming people or wildlife. Reforestation opportunity maps like this are essential as regrowing trees remains a cost-effective option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Graphic: @theguardian.com

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Domicide is the name for a growing pattern of intentional violence—where homes are targeted and erased, by war, by raids, by climate inaction. atmos.earth/from-gaza-to...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From a single raindrop to an ice sheet, the physical world is haunted by unpredictability. atmos.earth/reading-the-...

All Eyes on Gaza All Eyes on Los Angeles All Eyes on Sudan All Eyes on Lebanon All Eyes on the Congo All Eyes on Haiti All Eyes on Venezuela All Eyes on Myanmar Justice for one, justice for all.

80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding. Read & share this crucially important @yessfun.com article in @emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED Newsletter and @atmosmag.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

@longreads.com Sharing this story for your editors’ picks section atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding. Written by @yessfun.com atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Metals accrued over the seafloor over millions of years. The damage caused by mining them could be irreversible. atmos.earth/trumps-rush-...

Extreme heat days are becoming more frequent around the world. In the past year, climate change has at least doubled the number of extreme heat days in 195 countries, according to a new report. Aruba had the most extreme heat days at 187, compared to an estimated 45 days without climate change.

"In its simplest form, a whale’s death becomes a source of life for years beyond its time. It is a transformation that turns death into life on an almost incomprehensible scale." Omnia Saed for @atmosmag.bsky.social‬:

“Oh, trans people of now, what fruit will you bear?” For our June digital cover, writer @raquelwillis.com pens an homage to trans histories and futures: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : The Brooklyn-based artist and fashion designer, Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen, shares the rituals of her sustainable practice. atmos.earth/zoe-gustavia...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : @thejinkx.bsky.social speaks to Atmos about the ancient history—and magic—of trans and gender expansive people. atmos.earth/jinkx-monsoo...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From waste reduction to worker-led policy, the Global Fashion Summit offered real-world empathy-led strategies to make sustainability equitable at every stage. atmos.earth/four-steps-t...

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : For June, we have a special digital cover story created in collaboration with the photographer Camila Falquez - a tribute to trans beauty and defiance featuring 22 movement leaders, artists, and organizers. atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...

“Intimacy will save us.” In the season finale of The Nature Of podcast, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins @willowonearth.bsky.social for a powerful conversation about witnessing extinction and choosing hope. Listen to the full episode here: atmos.earth/podcast/ami-...

Ecologists are seeing dramatic insect population decline as a direct result of climate change. The effects are already being felt as scientists in the US, Brazil, Ecuador and Panama report catastrophic declines of birds even in “untouched” or protected regions. Source: @theguardian.com

“The grammar of animacy teaches us that all the world is alive. Rocks and mountains, plants and rivers, fish and birds—all are spoken of with the same respect as humans.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Damming the famed river drowned canyons and their ecosystems for decades. Now, the body of water seems to be undergoing a restoration of its own making. atmos.earth/decades-afte...

“Nature does not work on the principle of sameness, uniformity, and monocultures. The natural world is a constant striving for a diversity of expression.” — Vandana Shiva

The Manu Forest is a UNESCO-protected biodiversity hotspot teeming with different plant, fungi, and animal species in southeastern Peru. Photographs: Arianna Lago

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In an industry that profits from excess, a cohort of music festivals are doubling down on climate action and forging a hopeful blueprint for change. atmos.earth/can-a-music-...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects #Climate