You are, right now, paying Big Oil's $900 annual pollution tax, in the form of higher home insurance, higher health insurance, and higher electric bills for more air conditioning. These costs disproportionately burden the poor and will keep rising as long as the fossil fuel industry exists.

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/49CE3Bt

📽️VIDEO: Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. Marc Elias exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook, as well as what voters, lawyers and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. https://bit.ly/483Fdok

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I wish EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY could see this. I want to throw up.

No one paying attention is surprised

Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿

This is what democracy looks like.

Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur. That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine. But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.

Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid

One of the more gratifying things I get to in my job: share well-made photos of some of the abundant beauty in the world. 'The Colors of October' - 26 images showing foliage, flight, and festivity around the Northern Hemisphere at the peak of autumn. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Tough love conclusion published recently in @nature.com: “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task.” Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!

Did they even introduce the coaches and non-starters?! I’m used to seeing that but only saw the lineups… If not, WTF? #BlueJays let’s see ya get rid of the effing #Dodgers ! It’s your turn!

In a win for voters Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a right-wing effort to revive a Republican bid to block Pennsylvania from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.

@propublica.org is joining the @coveringclimatenow.org collaboration!

One reasonable explanation for spending so much money on AI is that it's the vehicle for the last gasp of fossil fuel expansion billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...

Gawd I’m so sick of the Dodgers. Brewers took a lead on a homer and LA came right back with two.

@bsky.app I am still (after months, and having tried all your suggested remedies) never seeing many of those I follow in Following. This feels like a major bug. Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...

The barriers to building a career in science keep piling up - they’re certainly not coming down anymore. It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.

Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]

Amazing coverage as Sun Day weekend starts! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Yikes! Typhus too? Another serious climate sensitive disease is making a huge comeback in the US. Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends. @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Trump’s EPA wants to reverse its own scientific conclusion that climate change is real, giving corporations free reign on climate pollution. The EPA is accepting comments to its terrible plan right now. Tell them to put people before polluters: https://on.nrdc.org/4phfi37

If they were making Mad Max now there'd be no need to hijack oil tankers. He could be Chill Max, just relying on his solar panels www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...

1,000+ "Workers Over Billionaires" Protests: Images From All 50 States and DC

Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Let me rewatch The Day After Tomorrow to see what to expect.

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

Keeping global heating to 1.5°C is now highly unlikely without radical action. This is not a sign to give up. It’s a sign to step up. Every fraction of a degree matters. No more delays. We #DrawTheLine ——— against climate inaction. Will you join us? 👉 drawtheline.world atmos.earth/new-study-es...

A thought experiment. What if the world's climate policy for the next few years was: flood the planet with cheap or free solar panels? billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.

Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful. #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Can I just say, being interviewed by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is an awful lot of fun. He understands the moment we’re in, bad and good

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

(Attenborough voice) “The North American goon is a fascinating creature. Here we see a pack defiling a watering hole, marking the territory with their sign — a dick.”

This Starling murmuration over Rome.

Link: buff.ly/dH4H0Om

Finally. I've been wanting MSM would have graphics like this at the ready every time they covered trump, especially leading up to the election and during debates. You KNOW what he's gonna lie about. Have that shit ready to go!

One is always grateful when the first review of one's new book is both smart and kind! Many thanks to Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org, an invaluable resource for reporters www.thenation.com/article/envi...

A Baltimore-based nonprofit is helping women purchase homes by connecting them to funding, resources, DIY skills and community. reasonstobecheerful.world/black-women-...

NYC is investing in window-sized heat pumps that could replace AC! Electric heat pumps transfer warmth or cooling from the outdoor air into indoor spaces. This is part of a larger goal in New York to have heat pumps account for 65% of residential heating, AC, and water heating by 2030. ♨️ #cities

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment 🔥🔥 In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system. @billmckibben www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

In a world of endless bad news, one huge possibility: Solar can be Liberation www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Lying by an officer should be a one-strike-you're-fired situation, and the officers who did so should all be prosecuted. I won't hold my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wherever you land on the issues, I think the vast majority of us are strongly against the vile murders of October 7 and also strongly against an entirely avoidable mass starvation of a vulnerable people. Let’s end the false equivalences. This has to stop now.

History is on the calendar. 🗓️July 23, 2025: The #ICJ will rule on the climate crisis, a decision that could pave the way for climate reparations and human rights protections long overdue. Repost to stand with us to demand legal clarity & #ClimateJustice. #ClimateICJAO #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ