Botanist Peter Raven warned of the perils of climate change “We are part of the web of life, and what we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” @keithschneider69.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

Such beautiful writing from @jcljules.bsky.social about his father…”a starship’s bridge” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Not in ours.”

#EARTHDAY: Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2204202...

This looks good, from “Climate School” — Wednesday, online, 1 hour, free. events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

The day began with a front-page article about "mutually assured destruction" AI drone factories...and ended with this description of what all else AI could take out this year. Stocks today? All-time high. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

The home Susan Orlean painstakingly renovated and told the LA Times she would never leave...the fires changed everything. www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

Breaking News: The Trump administration agreed to allow the rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall monument in Manhattan, reversing its earlier decision. nyti.ms/4c8DEry

health policy timeline cleanse ☺️

“The labours of the many dozens of people who had produced it had been abstracted, appropriated and ultimately obscured in the commodity form.”

Oil executives sold more than $1.4 billion in personal stock, since January, profiting off US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the resulting energy crisis. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth made $104 million. In March alone, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made about $54 million. By Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social:

+1.8°C above the pre-industrial baseline possible by winter! That’s what the North American Multi-model Ensemble (NMME) estimates the global surface temperature anomaly will be by December, due in part to the strong El Niño boost… 1/

“You ask if there’s a third question we can pose. Here’s one: Is it possible any longer to write novels that are not already suffused with the situation?”

Cinematographer Gordon Willis was a ninja with that dolly track.

NATURE IS HEALING

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

For your consideration: Crowd funding for "The Sky is the Limit (NCAR--A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces."

This is so good!

“There’s just no winning on climate unless we address how absolutely broken our political system is,” said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement.

🇫🇷 The International Olympic Committee's decision to reintroduce gender testing for the first time since 1999 is a "step backwards", French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari said on Friday. Read more here: https://go.france24.com/w5l

“It was a different game now. Clearly, the machine no longer belonged to its makers.” 1981 prescience from the Pulitzer-winning nonfiction marvel Tracy Kidder, who passed away on Tuesday. Beautiful writer, beautiful life.

The cherry blossom tracker map for Central Park (ignore the incorrect year, it’s current—we’re officially in “pre-bloom,” not long now!)… www.centralparknyc.org/cherry-bloss...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

This was a transformative experience (and a good detox from 2026 pace, though it's cut beautifully!). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/m...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

“She told me about the Romanian occupation from 1941 to 1944, when she and her mother hid in the basement of their building — just as we sometimes do these days.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

"Valentina: I feel like art is supposed to give us a reason to keep fighting. It’s supposed to give us a reason to stay in it, to fight for beauty, to fight for humanity. And this was kind of like, telling us to just give up. Lisa: Yes. A hundred percent." hyperallergic.com/what-do-we-r...

I realized long ago that pantheism is my natural inclination, but “panpsychism” is a great add: “everything possesses a tiny spark of proto-consciousness” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

“Five of the last ten US presidents attended law school,” Yi-Ling Liu writes. “By 2002 all nine members of…China’s most powerful governing body were former engineers.”

"The United States is currently the world’s second-largest climate polluter, after China. It also is the world’s biggest historic emitter since the Industrial Revolution, responsible for more than 20 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions since 1751." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/c...

Breaking News: The Pentagon asked the White House for $200 billion to fund the war in Iran, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter. The sum is nearly a quarter of the entire U.S. annual defense budget.

Outstanding journalism often takes a long time. In the case of the NYT's investigation into the Cesar Chavez abuse case, it took almost five years. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

NEWS: Trump admin hit with a lawsuit to stop it from breaking up NCAR, the nation’s leading weather and climate research center. From the suit: “Federal agencies and officials… are waging a campaign of retaliation against the State of Colorado.”

At one time The Berkshire Eagle was one of the finest medium-size dailies in the country. Then the vulture capital fund Alden Global Capital moved in and hollowed it out. Charles Sennott takes a look at how the Eagle is soaring once again under committed local ownership. #journalism

Update: This afternoon Bayfield County, WI will vote on whether to greenlight the sheriff's office purchasing over $100,000 in riot gear. They'll use it to respond to protests agains the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline reroute around the Bad River reservation And they aim for Enbridge to pay for it 1/

In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo

"A dark and killing cloud over Tehran...and over a shamed America" open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

The U.S. war on Iran is a total environmental catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

CBS News Correspondent Announces Sudden Departure From Network: ‘My Work Will Soon No Longer Appear’

Thinking of Eldridge & Breslin (the real love story FX should work up). Ronnie's memorial is Wednesday, 4:30 pm, at the New York Ethical Culture Society. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

Love this kicker. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

My latest for @theappeal.org Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...

“Americans have seen enough wreckage now to understand two things: the government is not swooping in to save you or your stuff, & if you are vulnerable in some way before the storm hits, you’re going to have a rougher time recovering.” #ClimateSky

🇵🇸 Next to the historic Great Omari Mosque in #Gaza, a library that once held around 20,000 books now stands in ruins, ravaged by the war. Volunteers are working carefully to salvage what remains, determined to preserve Gaza’s ancient cultural #heritage 👇