A cave. (This one cost me nothing.)

Wishing you all a happy Carl Sagan Day (born this day in 1934). Fascinating to see his note summarizing the key topics he planned to discuss during his 1977 meeting with President Carter. ("Wonder"!) 🧪🔭 www.loc.gov/collections/...

Antifa with broomsticks

Utterly grim www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...

Great way to track how the Trump adm is faring in court on enviro issues. So far: 6 wins, 5 losses & 3 more a mixed ruling. This chart is regularly updated so stay tuned as the courts steer the future of the planet @mlavelle.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Election roundup from @mlavelle.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...

Looking good, San Francisco

NEW from @insideclimatenews.org and thanks to @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard An updating tracker of federal lawsuits involving the Trump administration insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

At @insideclimatenews.org, we're keeping track of environmental lawsuits involving the Trump administration thanks to great work by my colleagues @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social. Keep this one handy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

NEW from @insideclimatenews.org: Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard An updating tracker of federal lawsuits involving the Trump administration insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.

NEW with @mlavelle.bsky.social: Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard @insideclimatenews.org updating tracker of lawsuits involving the Trump administration insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Shame on Sheffield Hallam University www.bbc.com/news/article...

🗣️📈 Today, I'm happy to release a new tool empowering chatbots like AnthropicAI's Claude to create charts with Datawrapper, a leading newsroom tool for publishing data.

Congrats Jeff Kelly Lowenstein of ccij.io for election to board of @gijn.org! gijn.org/stories/gijn...

Fogscape

Grateful to Peter for his stellar data analysis work, which produced maps letting people see how many lbs. of two highly toxic pesticides, including the carcinogen 1,3-D, growers applied near their kids' schools. It's an invaluable public service CA regulators should have been providing all along.

Honored to share an @spj-norcal.bsky.social Excellence in Journalism award for investigative reporting with @peteraldhous.com for our @insideclimatenews.org Captured series, which shows how pesticide regulators serve industry over health. Congrats to the other winners! spjnorcal.org/2025/10/30/s...

Pleased to pick up an @spj-norcal.bsky.social award with @lizagross.bsky.social for investigative reporting! spjnorcal.org/2025/10/30/s... For this @insideclimatenews.org series: Captured: How pesticide regulators place industry profits above public health insideclimatenews.org/project/capt...

Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

Good! www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it. Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Climate #Disaster #Weather #Data

Introducing the latest class @ucscscicomm.bsky.social. Great to be working with them on news features for @mercurynews.com! scicom.ucsc.edu/students-and...

I know the song that Spotify will say defines my 2025. Each time I turn to it, I play it repeatedly ... open.spotify.com/track/4kH9sg...

"Today, Chinese companies are continuing to build new coal plants in Indonesia, despite a 2021 pledge by China’s president, Xi Jinping, that Beijing would end such financing," reports @insideclimatenews.org's Nicholas Kusnetz (w/ @peteraldhous.com): insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202... #ClimateSky

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. by me @ wired:

Some appropriate caution on use of AI in journalism from @sotsideris.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The East Wing has gone, @planet.com satellite imagery shows arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

At Point Reyes with @ucscscicomm.bsky.social students and tule elk.

If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️

The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source familiar with the operation.

This piece from Farah Aziz Annesha and @carlykay.bsky.social started life in our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social classes in the Spring. Great to see it out in the world! medshadow.org/breast-cance...

A weather balloon launched by private company that uses a bag of sand as a ballast, shattered the cockpit window of an airplane at 36,000 feet last night. Yikes!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s... An unknown sea otter was spotted stealing surfboards at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz this week. Is 841 back to her old ways or have other otters learned to hang 10? Check out my latest for @nytimes.com

A fascinating and troubling look at China-funded coal generation in Indonesia from my colleagues @nkus.bsky.social and @peteraldhous.com: insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...

From the weekend: Pleased to provide data analysis for this Nicholas Kusnetz @insideclimatenews.org story insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Pleased to contribute data analysis and graphics to this Nicholas Kusnetz story for @insideclimatenews.org on the coal-fired power plant fleet it has helped build and finance beyond its own borders — notably in Indonesia. insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...

There is still beauty in this world

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing. undark.org/2025/10/09/o... 1/2

Very disturbing www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

And again

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Weekend read: From me, www.linkedin.com/in/aidhughes/ and @kiley.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org The Trump Administration Is Cutting Billions in Clean Energy Investments—But the Savings Are Overstated insideclimatenews.org/news/1010202...

Pleased to help out with data/chart for this ccij.io and nigeriahealthwatch.com story! veza.news/article/2025...