I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

The NYT bureau chief who was caught using a fake AI quote makes about as much money annually as bioGraphic is losing. Funding does not follow quality. What a world we could live in if it did. Support independent, human journalism and publishing.

"To work on rescuing something that almost survived, amidst the execution of culture and the burning of libraries, gives you hope in the middle of suffocating pain," she says. www.newarab.com/features/ins...

The Canadian Mining Journal retracted a lengthy article that quoted made-up people and cited made-up facts about deep-sea mining. Observers aren't surprised.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

“Why would HHS want to take a program that is working — a program that places hundreds of U.S. trained international physicians in highly underserved parts of the country every year — and slow-walk it into non-existence,” Jennifer Minear, a Virginia-based health workforce immigration lawyer, said.

From extreme heat on the job to flooding at home, working-class people are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. In Chicago, unions and tenant organizers are pushing a “green economic populism” that tackles climate and affordability together.

A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time crossing a man-made canopy bridge constructed to help the endangered animals bypass a tarred road on the Indonesian island, an NGO says u.afp.com/SacB

My morning inspiration for the day. "Martinez makes visible the difficult labor and onerous conditions of the “American farmworker,” itself a compromised piece of language owing to the industry’s conspicuous use of undocumented workers." orionmagazine.org/article/amer...

In my first piece for The Baffler, I traveled to Ukraine to report on the growing power of agribusiness. More than four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, farmers, activists & academics are raising the alarm about the transformation of farmland, which is flying largely under the radar:

Joan Semmel's boldly colorful, intimate paintings have radically shifted perspective from the male gaze toward a woman’s view. At age 93, after more than 60 years as an artist, she believes her most recent paintings are among the best she has ever made.

"The California Department of Public Health has described silicosis as an epidemic, one primarily plaguing young Latino immigrants like Hernandez who work in shops that fabricate engineered stone." @kaylayup.bsky.social reports on the dangers of stoneworking. inthesetimes.com/article/deca...

"When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining..." news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

“To choose meanings out of the wild and waste of experience is the assaying work of poems. What the World Pear Collection job, or my life of scrappy jobs more generally, meant to the writing of poems—that, however, is an open question.”

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Rose took a job waiting tables in his home city of New Orleans, some former readers recognized him—but he wasn’t serving for a story. He’d taken the job to feed his family.

Our rare and beautiful planet. (gift article from The New York Times.)

How do I work through this unprecedented time I mutter to myself for the 20th time this year.

Opponents of fast-and-free buses argue that there is little to no evidence that free transit does much for reducing air pollution or carbon emissions. But is this a case of carbon tunnel vision? I explore the climate & environmental justice implications of free buses @thepolisproject.bsky.social

“We are not talking about stone and mortar,” Amiri said, gesturing to a mangled chandelier. “We are talking about the memory and history of a people. This stone represents who we are.” www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Dedicated to the mercenary and the freelancer, Baffler no. 83 contemplates the gigification of American life and privatization of conflict around the world, with stories on private militaries, foreign capital, and the impossibility of making a living as a writer. thebaffler.com/issues/no-83

It's finally happening!

Some news: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is opening an on-site child care facility inside the Dinkins Municipal Building that will be free to city workers. It's a model for the universal child care program that is on track to hit full capacity by the end of his first term. prospect.org/2026/03/30/m...

Just as most democratic governors are trying to lower utility bills by scaling cheap, renewable energy, NYs gov, Kathy Hochul, is trying to extend the life of oil and gas, which will lock New Yorker in the the most expensive fuel for years to come.

Scientists just discovered a new superfamily of species in the depths of the Pacific Ocean—an evolutionary leap they compare to “finding dogs” for the first time. But the U.S. is fast-tracking deep-sea mining permits in the very same waters.

I have a new essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

You want to know about this app that turns normal words into LinkedIn speak. “I ate an apple.” translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

The US Congress House Science Committee is holding a hearing on #DeepSeaMining this Thursday. You can watch the livestream from the website. More info here: science.house.gov/2026/3/envir...

I took a momentary break from science writing to write about how ICE raids are affecting my home neighborhood back in Staten Island for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/03/23/i...

Utterly wrecked by this beautiful meditation by @leilastudiony.bsky.social for @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/flying-back-...

“Behind the subdued celebrations lies a landscape of loss: mothers mourning children killed in recent strikes, and others marking the holiday in silence, stripped of its rituals, navigating Eid with little more than memory.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"I talked to four Black women...They are still unemployed and emotionally distraught from the chaos of the past year. Savings accounts are depleted, student loans languish, and their sense of self-worth crumbles." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

NEW: Fossil fuel pollution and other toxic chemicals from the war in Iran will spread across the region and last for decades just as smoke from burning oil wells went as far as the Himalayas following the Gulf War 35 years ago FREE read on @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

International law is being tested in dozens of ways at the moment. @isabellakaminski.bsky.social shines a light on one: whether the UN will adopt a resolution welcoming the ICJ advisory opinion on climate or break under pressure from polluting countries drilled.media/news/un-icj

How do elephants experience time? Researcher Khatijah Rahmat argues that recognizing "animal temporality" could transform the field of conservation. In this week’s episode of the #Mongabay Newscast, @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social explores how animals’ “time” can reshape protection efforts.

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

The spectre of dark, unbreathable, toxic skies above Tehran should haunt our humanity. What a world we've created where the whims of madmen can destroy a people's innate right to breathe. Devastating read by @dropsitenews.com : www.dropsitenews.com/p/tehran-ira...

The threat of unilateral action to license #deepseamining was on #ISA31 delegates' minds Whether this should push them to urgently settle exploitation regulations—or take the time to get the rules right—framed the opening day Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/internationa... #Ocean #mining

How the blues brought musical journeyman Raphael Saadiq to the Oscars www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure by Israel to have toxic environmental fallout, experts warn www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thanks to Vanuatu, he UN General Assembly may have a chance to take some climate action based on emerging international law.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.

Happy International Women's Day to all the queens who struggle everyday to make life better for their families, communities and the planet. They bomb our little girls, take our best leaders and try to silence our voices, but we never give up.

“I wanted to read what my students had written. I’d been telling them all semester that writing was a gift humanity had made for itself, a way for us to know ourselves and each other across space and time.” Beautiful piece by Peter Baker.

Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:

Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/mpzZynt

My take on the impact of climate change on Somalis in today’s @newrepublic.com article by @eshirin.bsky.social.