Losing the climate info war: “we’ve been losing the climate disinformation war all along…we were completely ineffectual in fending off a decades-long disinformation bombardment.” via @NYTimes @LFFriedman @stevenleemyers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Great reporting. The extinction paradox: how India’s dramatic loss of vulture populations led to tens of millions of lethal rabies cases from rising packs of wild dogs. “When we endanger other species, we endanger ourselves.” @majohnso @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A climate meeting next year focuses on fossil fuels: "Colombia and the Netherlands will convene governments in Santa Marta, Colombia for the first global summit dedicated explicitly to the transition away from fossil fuels." fpif.org/cop30-failed... @daphnew.bsky.social

Warming seas devastate Costa Rica corals: “bleaching affected about 80% of corals in the region…The shift to algae signals a broader ecological change, where reefs lose their structure and ability to support fish and other marine life.” @The TicoTimes ticotimes.net/2025/11/27/e...

Great reporting. Oil and gas bets #plastics will save its future: “plans to increase petrochemical production by 80 percent by 2050 will help the industry to pump and sell even more oil at mid-century than it does today.” @Gardiner_Beth @sciam www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Killing the pollinators. “Honey bees are the backbone of our food system, pollinating the crops that feed our nation...If we continue to see losses at this rate, we simply won’t be able to sustain current food production.” themoneytrail.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

Health experts cry foul over Trump plans to cut air safety rules: "The Trump EPA is siding with big polluters, challenging safer standards and asking a court to do its dirty work.” https//wapo.st/49zm7rA @AmudalatAjasa

A free press matters: “When fundamental freedoms are at stake, however, it becomes our duty, as an independent, not-for-profit news organization, with no owner and no shareholders, to stand up….AP’s freedom of speech is yours, too.” apnews.com/article/asso...

Bad COP: scientists say #COP30 was an "abject failure," ignoring a key climate threat--fossil fuels--and calling for a change in UN conference rules: "a small number of rogue nations cannot be allowed to block progress for the rest of the world." @Michaelemann.bsky.social michaelmann.net/bad-cop/

COP30 ignored the most important climate issue in the room: cutting fossil fuels. “It felt like a whole lot of tapdancing on the Titanic.” @amywestervelt.bsky.social drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...

A #climate crossroads risking “the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C” @PIK_Climate @ConversationUK x.com/therockyfile... theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

The dismal state of local news: "digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost." Most digital news sites are based in urban centers, leaving rural areas without local news. @MedillSchool localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

Killing the eagles: Trump admin to propose weakening wildlife protections; “defanging the Endangered Species Act…will only accelerate the loss of species at a time when hundreds of thousands are at risk of vanishing for good” ⁦ @dino_grandoni @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

How the Trump administration threatens our water resources and all who depend on them: "The current occupants of the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court are clearly bent on tearing the Clean Water Act to shreds." @derrickzjackson87294 open.substack.com/pub/themoney...

Dead coral reefs, melting glaciers, warming permafrost top climate scientists’ concerns: “"Every tenth of a degree matters. And every act we take matters” ⁦‪@rhersher‬⁩ ⁦‪@NPR‬⁩ ⁦‪@lesommer‬⁩ www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...

Solar energy on fire: “The global solar energy market, driven by a push for carbon reduction and sustainable power generation, is projected to quadruple its valuation over the next decade” ⁦ @OilandEnergy oilprice.com/Alternative-...

Environmentalists rail against Trump proposal to curtail water protections: “The EPA is taking a big swipe at the Clean Water Act, our greatest tool for ensuring clean water nationwide.” ⁦‪@brady_dennis‬⁩ ⁦‪@washingtonpost‬⁩ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The American Petroleum Institute is backing a seven-figure ad campaign featuring real landmen during Paramount+ and CBS broadcasts of "Landman." www.axios.com/2025/11/16/l...

Experts call Trump’s revision of radiation standards “catastrophic” for women: “It’s an attack on the science and the policy behind radiation protection of people and the environment that has been in place for decades” @BulletinAtomic thebulletin.org/2025/11/trum...

Meltdown in the Himalayas: “As humans warm the planet, so much ice has been erased from around Mount Everest that the elevation at base camp in Nepal, which sits on a melting glacier, has dropped more than 220 feet since the 1980s.” @nytimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meltdown in the Himalayas: “As humans warm the planet, so much ice has been erased from around Mount Everest that the elevation at base camp in Nepal, which sits on a melting glacier, has dropped more than 220 feet since the 1980s.” @nytimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Global CO2 emissions are flattening but #methane emissions are rising at record levels, fueled by the rising use of methane gas, melting permafrost and deforestation. Scientists say we are on a path for climate disaster. @AmyAHarder @axios www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...

Oceans on acid pose an existential threat to marine life: "Areas are acidifying more quickly than thought, posing an existential threat to coastal economies around the world". @aaas www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A warming climate fuels a river of rain in the sky: “this conveyor belt of moisture from the gulf has intensified along the East Coast by an average of 4 to 7 percent over the past three decades — as much as twice the global average.” @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...

Bad news for the global climate: oil and gas to expand over the next 2 decades. "...growing concerns over energy security and a global lack of ambitious climate policies will delay the peak of the fossil fuel era until at least 2050." @HumbertoBasilio www.scientificamerican.com/article/iea-...

The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline "There’s no agreement yet, but time marches on, and conditions on the river continue to be problematic — more problematic over time as those reservoirs decline.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

A year of magical thinking: billionaires claim climate change isn't an existential threat. "The notion that you can alleviate suffering in a world of uncontrolled warming isn’t just shortsighted, it edges toward magical thinking." @ElizKolbert @New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The cost of a warming planet: Iran's record heat and drought may result in catastrophic measures. "Facing Iran’s worst drought in 60 years, the country’s president warned that the capital might need to be evacuated" nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w... @SanamMahoozi @ErikaSolomon @nytimes

Governments are committed to fighting climate change except one major polluter: “every country remains committed to the Paris Agreement, except one. That’s the United States.” via @NYTimes @SominiSengupta www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Scientists: treat the rising threats of climate tipping points for the real danger it is. “Crossing one tipping point could set off a cascade of other tipping point crossings with the majority of interactions being destabilizing," @patrickpester www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Will the new owner of ⁦‪@CBSNews capitulate on climate news? ‬⁩”If this is the model for how CBS News will now approach its climate coverage, the shift will not be toward independence, but capitulation.” @emorwee heated.world/p/bari-weiss...

A journalistic Swiss-army knife who had no boundaries: "Every day is a chance to practice the highest and best form of journalism: interviewing, reporting, witnessing and writing stories that will startle our readers, taking them to places and events they’ve never known.” wapo.st/4oTWndS @SBHendrix

Journalists should step up and provide climate context and out misinformation: “Extreme heat, floods, and storms tend to be reported as unique events as opposed to part of an unfolding and long-term crisis, which prevents a fuller understanding of the issue.”

Fire crews increasingly at risk from developing serious respiratory illness and cancer from growing levels of toxic smoke. This New York Times investigation paints a devastating picture of the health risks to come as the planet burns. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The importance of people's voices on the front lines of #climatechange: “Come to the village, sit by the riverbank, listen to the women’s songs, the children’s cries, the elders’ counsel. That’s how one understands what a just transition means for us.” @yessfun @sejorg www.sej.org/publications...

Pouring cash into coal: “Those types of retrofits for a single plant can cost hundreds of millions of dollars…you’d be putting those billions of dollars into clunkers. Literally burning that money.” ⁦‪@AJBeamer‬⁩.bsky⁦‪.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

Excellent reporting on the Trump administration's efforts to silence science: “Now they are starting to proffer misinformation and putting a government seal on it” @virginiagewin @Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As UN warns carbon emissions are still too high and will lead to dangerous warming. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Deja vu all over again: UN says world not cutting emissions fast enough. "...countries will not prevent warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius – the main goal of the Paris Agreement... Instead, the world is on track for an extreme 2.3 - 2.5°C of warming" @reuters www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Good piece: The powerful conservative network you never heard of. “Buskirk helms the Rockbridge Network, a secretive organization…that has established itself as one of the most influential forces in GOP politics.” ⁦ @lizzadwoskin @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Meltdown in the Antarctic: “Grounded glaciers like Hektoria, which rest on the seabed and don’t float, generally retreat no more than a few hundred meters a year. But between November and December 2022, Hektoria retreated by 5 miles” @laurapaddison @CNN www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...

After cutting a $3 billion river diversion that would have destroyed fisheries and dolphins, Louisiana has a clear path forward to protect its coasts: “We are restoring the guardrails that keep high-risk projects rightsized." @DennisL71538025 www.nola.com/opinions/let...

Clueless on MoneyTrail: "it is extremely risky for the United States—and the rest of the world—to have a man child who has no idea what he is doing beyond stuffing his pockets determining U.S. economic policy. But that’s the current reality." themoneytrail.substack.com/p/on-the-mon...

Climate change is not an existential threat? This could change your mind: "the amount of water vapor moving through Earth’s atmosphere has increased 12 percent. That increase is equivalent to 35 Mississippi Rivers flowing through the air every second." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...

Let by rising distribution costs, skyrocketing electric rates hit low income ratepayers the most: “It’s a perfect storm of misery for low-and-middle income households” @nytimes @bradplumer @rfelliott @Harry_Stevens www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/c...

Important to call out the hallucinations of AI.

On the eve of millions losing their SNAP food benefits, Trump throws a party: “Gatsby and “a little party never killed nobody” was the “official theme” of the night” the-independent.com/news/world/ame… @Independent x.com/therockyfile...

Check out Randy Rieland’s wrap-up of last week’s highlights and lowlights on Money Trail: themoneytrail.substack.com/p/trail-note... tariff ad meltdown / SCOTUS tariff time / Kash's FBI jetaway / $7b shutdown hit / SNAP benefits battle / Soybean farmer Bessent / Donald Jr. cashes in yet again

A top network climate team is eviscerated by its new owners: “There is no bigger issue facing the world or America right now than climate change. It’s a five alarm fire, and we should be treating it like that, not retreating from the story.” Emily Atkin heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

This has been a long time coming: “the facility will be capable of producing about 50,000 Tesla Semi units annually. This should help the Semi disrupt and potentially saturate the United States’ transport sector” @ResidentSponge @Teslarati www.teslarati.com/tesla-semi-f...