Pleased to have been part of this coverage with colleagues @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...

Now make the headlights less intense

In conclusion, this should win Best Picture:

LATEST in @mercurynews.com from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social: @claudiasteiner.bsky.social on urban noise and wetland birds in the South Bay www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/27/h...

NEW in @mercurynews.com from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social: Kaia Glickman on 3D-printed surfboards from recyclable materials www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/26/s...

In analyzing state records for this waste, @peteraldhous.com and I found huge discrepancies, errors and a lot of troubling questions about oversight. Almost 1.4 million tons of waste was unaccounted for: insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...

NEW from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social: Alonso Daboub on monitoring air pollution facing farmworker communities in the Pajaro Valley using drones and low-cost sensors. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/22/n...

Here's @kiley.bsky.social talking to editor @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social about our @insideclimatenews.org reporting on oil and gas waste going to landfills in Pennsylvania insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...

Bad day to be a Waymo (and even worse to be inside or stuck behind one). A widespread blackout left robotaxis stalled across the city, causing traffic chaos Saturday night. Read more: sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

NEW from @kiley.bsky.social and I for @insideclimatenews.org: Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste insideclimatenews.org/news/2012202...

Looks interesting: #geosam package for extracting objects from satellite images from @kylewalker.bsky.social walker-data.com/geosam/

NEW @insideclimatenews.org from @kiley.bsky.social and I: Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’ insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...

A new investigation into PA’s tracking of toxic and often radioactive oil and gas waste revealed huge discrepancies in the records. (With @peteraldhous.com) insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...

The president’s political feud with Colorado and his budget chief’s drive to end climate research have put the National Center for Atmospheric Research at risk. insideclimatenews.org/news/1712202...

Ugh ...

More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social provides a sorely needed and persuasive debunking of the mad and often toxic fantasies now embedded in Silicon Valley. www.the-tls.com/science-tech...

Pleased to provide data/charts for this story on money-lending apps in Nigeria. Collaboration between ccij.io and techcabal.com veza.news/article/2025...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

LATEST in @mercurynews.com from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social. By Cassidy Beach: How a group tracking sounds beneath Bay Area waters hopes to protect whales from shipping lanes www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/10/h...

Meanwhile, in Europe…

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

Our @insideclimatenews.org tracker of important federal environmental court cases has been updated to reflect these two losses for the Trump administration in trial court: (w/ @mlavelle.bsky.social) insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

NEW in @mercurynews.com from our news features class @ucscscicomm.bsky.social, and it's a fun one from @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social: How a Santa Cruz ‘sea monster’ spawned a century of myth, mystery and scientific discovery www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/08/l...

Here's the first piece from this year's @ucscscicomm.bsky.social news features class in @mercurynews.com: Olivia Maule on tracking monarch butterflies with bluetooth tags www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/l...

American Public Health Association (APHA) Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD: ACIP decision to roll back universal Hepatitis B vaccine schedule recommendations will leave children vulnerable to unnecessary exposure and preventable illness www.apha.org/news-and-med...

RIP Claude

The Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now calling it the National Laboratory of the Rockies, an identity shift for the institution that has been a global leader in wind, solar and other renewable energy research.

Really grim www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

ICYMI, NEW with ccij.io colleagues: What Africa Lost Under Trump veza.news/article/2025...

It was the evening before Thanksgiving...and EPA dropped a final rule granting oil & gas companies more than a year to comply with some Biden-era mandates to replace leaky equipment & routinely monitor for escaped methane. Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sparkly skyline

Found this last week. Pretty great

NEW from me and colleagues ccij.io: What Africa Lost Under Trump veza.news/article/2025...

Apple core causing some excitement

If you were interested in this NYT piece from a couple of days ago, read our coverage of Epstein's links with Krauss and other scientists at BuzzFeed News from 2018 and 2019: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u... www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete... www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...

Pleased to talk today to www.hs-ansbach.de students about investigative science journalism. Thanks Deborah Cohen / Andreas von Bubnoff for invite! Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...

California has positioned itself as a beacon of hope post-Roe. But 1 in 3 hospital beds in the state is controlled by Catholic religious directives that deny life-saving maternal care in crisis. New from @anyaviolet.bsky.social: sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/c...

The claim "I cannot fly" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that I can, in fact, fly.

JFC CDC WTF?

Enjoyed speaking yesterday with Venise Wagner's www.sfsu.edu class on using AI/machine learning in journalism! Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ugh

Airship over the the bay

Pleased to help out with some data work for this @psskow.bsky.social story for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are. Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch... Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

This is pretty great. Like nothing I've heard since John Fahey open.spotify.com/album/1uOwJf...

Looking also at all you scientists who took his money after his initial conviction. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...