Your resolution for 2026: Talk to your friends and neighbors about climate change. https://therevelator.org/talk-about-climate-change/

The Land Is an Ancestor We Refuse to Abandon: In the Shadows of the Hermosa Mine -- copublished with Crucial Comix https://therevelator.org/land-an-ancestor/

The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024 -- look for 2025's list soon https://therevelator.org/extinct-2024/

Some of our most impactful journalism at @therevelator.org from the past year: Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 therevelator.org/best-reporti...

Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 https://therevelator.org/best-reporting-2025/

Some of our most impactful journalism at @therevelator.org from the past year: Extreme Weather, Wildlife Trafficking, and Giraffes: 15 of Our Most Powerful Articles of 2025 therevelator.org/best-reporti...

Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates https://therevelator.org/burnout-environmental-advocates/

Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) -- one of our favorite expert commentaries of 2025 https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/

Saving America’s National Parks and Forests Means Shaking Off the Rust of Inaction (one of our favorite environmental commentaries of 2025) https://therevelator.org/saving-national-parks/

These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures. https://therevelator.org/environmental-commentaries-2025/

Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

The Last Breath of the Himalayas: Can We Stop the Collapse? (one of our favorite environmental commentaries of 2025) https://therevelator.org/himalayas-climate-change/

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

I have about a million and one things to do before I shut down for the holiday season, but 999,999 of them will have to wait until January...

We’re honored to have our piece of speculative fiction on coral reefs of the future selected for The Revelator’s end-of-year list. A reminder that imagination is part of conservation, and that the futures we picture can shape the reefs we fight for. 🌊🪸 #OceanHoptimism

12 Environmental Commentaries That Defined Our Year in 2025 -- by @jyunker.bsky.social @oceanhoptimism.org @authorhenderson.bsky.social @federicoholm.bsky.social & many others: therevelator.org/environmenta...

"The study found that indirect water use can be up to four times higher than direct consumption, yet tech companies rarely disclose this metric." #AI - #DataCenters - #ClimateCrisis www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!

This morning's Reliable Sources newsletter: Inside the "60 Minutes" crisis New reporting here: cnn.it/494W5dF

When I say WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, I mean agriculture is eating the earth. Farms cover 40% of our land, and they’re overrunning a soccer field worth of forest every six seconds. When you eat a burger, you’re eating the Amazon.

War as a vector for invasive species: https://therevelator.org/locusts-landmines-ukraine/

Trump wants to gaslight America into thinking that the economy is doing well. It's not. The cost of living is up, the social safety net is shrinking, and many polls show that the majority of Americans are struggling under this economic system. #Velshi

As we dive into the holiday season, here's a comprehensive list of environmental holidays, species awareness days, and other dates to remember all year long: https://therevelator.org/environmental-holidays/

"The road to hell is paved with … more roads." Read more: https://therevelator.org/this-year-in-conservation-science-2025/

🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌👹 My latest for @therevelator.org

“What would the plover want us to do? The plover would want us to fight like hell. That’s what we have to do right now.” Read more: https://therevelator.org/piping-plovers-inspire/

The "Powerful" who Cowered in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Today about 80% of Americans grow sterile lawns, covering 40 million acres, that is a dead zone for birds and Bees Americans could save disappearing Bees and birds if they simply let their gardens grow wild to feed pollinators and birds therevelator.org/turning-lawn...

Save This Species: Bornean Orangutan on the brink Space for over 8 billion humans but no space for our closest relatives Poachers will kill mother orangutans and take their helpless babies to be sold as pets. Many of these captive animals die therevelator.org/save-this-sp...

This Year in Conservation Science: Whales, Birds, and Killer Roads (My last major article for 2025, and the last piece at @therevelator.org before our winter break. I enjoyed pulling this together.) therevelator.org/this-year-in...

How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year? 19thnews.org/2025/12/proj... via @19thnews.org

This Year in Conservation Science: Whales, Birds, and Killer Roads (My last major article for 2025, and the last piece at @therevelator.org before our winter break. I enjoyed pulling this together.) therevelator.org/this-year-in...

Our latest research on Rice's whale media coverage is included in this 2025 wrap up by @therevelator.org: therevelator.org/this-year-in...

The Revelator's 2025 Conservation Science In Review quotes me therevelator.org/this-year-in... @therevelator.org 🧪🌎

This Year in Conservation Science: Whales, Birds, and Killer Roads https://therevelator.org/this-year-in-conservation-science-2025/

Our last environmental book column of the year, featuring @jonathanslaght.com @susannahfisher.bsky.social @hillaryrosner.bsky.social @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @mikegrunwald.bsky.social & many others. therevelator.org/environmenta...

without superlatives, what a dangerous time to be alive

Our last environmental book column of the year, featuring @jonathanslaght.com @susannahfisher.bsky.social @hillaryrosner.bsky.social @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @mikegrunwald.bsky.social & many others. therevelator.org/environmenta...

Our final environmental book column of the year includes some great titles we couldn't let you miss: https://therevelator.org/environmental-books-dec2025/

"Human meddling has led to countless ecological disasters from the impact of invasive species...Some forced emigrants to faraway lands of wind and tundra have been returned to their original ranges, where they augment the persistence of native cold-adapted relatives" therevelator.org/inadvertentl...

“The piping plover has more in common with like grizzlies and gray wolves than most people know,” Allieri says. “Don’t tell [plovers] that they’re tiny. I think that they think that they’re grizzlies.” therevelator.org/piping-plove...

4 huge problems with nuclear: waste, cost, proliferation, accidents! As we’ve seen from the disasters at Three Mile Island, Fukushima and Chernobyl, there’s no such thing as a fail-safe nuclear plant, but these profit-making companies are prepared to take the gamble. therevelator.org/nuclear-power/

"We are facing two existential crises. One is democracy and whether or not democracy will survive. Two is our planet and whether or not our planet will be sustainable." -- Rob Reiner (2020) www.facebook.com/msnownews/po...

“The piping plover has more in common with like grizzlies and gray wolves than most people know,” Allieri says. “Don’t tell [plovers] that they’re tiny. I think that they think that they’re grizzlies.” therevelator.org/piping-plove...

Will the Song “White Christmas” Become a Clarion Call for Climate Change Action? | Inter Press Service www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/will...

It can take time to turn people into conservationists, but it can be done with perseverance #Conservation #Restoration #EndangeredSpecies #NaturalHistory therevelator.org/piping-plove...

Piping Plovers Inspire Volunteer Conservationists Despite New Threats From the Trump Administration https://therevelator.org/piping-plovers-inspire/

"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."

2025 From A to Z --- most of this editorial from last January (sadly) came true: https://therevelator.org/2025-from-a-to-z/