Pretty sure he chose a side.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"At this place and time in history, Stuff is, by and large, cheaper than it has ever been. Space and time are expensive. And Stuff eats space and time." Books, on the other hand, are small. lnk.thebulwark.com/4s0JIrX

Your 'doom quote' for today: "In the text of the Paris Agreement ... there is not the slightest acknowledgment that something has gone wrong with our dominant paradigms ... The current paradigm of perpetual growth is enshrined at the core of the text." press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

The audio book is half off, should you or yours be into that sort of thing! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

A report finds 65 of 67 PNG land-conversion permits are controlled by Malaysian-linked firms, covering 1.68 million hectares of rainforest — mostly undisturbed. Critics say permits meant for development have enabled large-scale logging, despite a 2023 moratorium.

Two of my childhood cats, Cajdi and Khanly, sisters, posing in a ‘70s Sears-style family photo shoot.

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

Wow, as if working journalists and the public trust/democracy weren't suffering death by a thousand cuts. This seems to be a chilling death knell. By @nickhunebrown.bsky.social @thelocal.to thelocal.to/investigatin...

How fun is this? www.booooooom.com/2017/01/22/p...

There's a freshwater pollution crisis unfolding across the Mekong region as mines pumps toxic chemicals into key river systems - our latest for @mongabay.com looks how gold mines along tributaries of the Sekong River in Laos are impacting fish populations, potentially posing a transboundary threat.

More cities are turning to #NatureBasedSolutions to manage #Flooding. San Jose is restoring the upstream Coyote Valley to protect downstream communities, and Milwaukee is giving the Kinnickinnic River room to slow and spread.   📰 @ericagies.bsky.social in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I shared this story when it run in @highcountrynews.org, well worth sharing it again. The combination of extractivism in agriculture & public lands today is the latest manifestation of a consistent throughline going all the way back to manifest destiny. This 💩's roots are deep and need eradicating.

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

It’s us

Most Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act have increased in abundance over the past 25 years, arresting earlier declines. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/12/05/n...

A study of 61 water suppliers in California found that projections of water demand from 2000 to 2020 consistently overestimated actual demand — by 25% for five-year projections and by 74% for 20-year projections, on average #cawater agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

De-paving Paradise: To prevent urban flooding, don't forget to look outside the city. That's the strategy I explored for Nature Outlook, featuring San Jose, Calif.'s, conservation of Coyote Valley and Milwaukee's Green Seams program to conserve wetlands. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

De-paving Paradise: To prevent urban flooding, don't forget to look outside the city. That's the strategy I explored for Nature Outlook, featuring San Jose, Calif.'s, conservation of Coyote Valley and Milwaukee's Green Seams program to conserve wetlands. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We're seeking 3-4 native/school gardens to feature 20-25+ native plant information signs. We sell the rain-proof signs for $5. each, but offer the first 10 signs for $2 and the next 10+ for $3, so you get a minimum of 20 signs for $50. It's a deal and a half! whollyh2o.org/store/ [email protected]

Much of southern Asia is currently reeling from extreme flooding. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines are the hardest hit by recent monsoonal rains and tropical cyclones. Please donate to a local Red Cross if you can.

This headline is a perfect example of the challenge we face: it is not a debatable issue where "many fighting climate change worry" we are losing the information war, it is a simple fact that we are being buried in bad faith lies and fossil fuel propaganda

Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Hear, hear!

Thank you, East Bay Regional Park District for a trend I can get behind: Green Friday, a shopping alternative in which you simply enjoy the beautiful outdoors: Story by Chase Hunter www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/27/e...

The Amazon is often treated as a single forest, yet the risks its people face from extreme weather vary sharply across borders. A new analysis by researchers from Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and the United States suggests those risks are also widely undercounted.

Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities. Here it is:

Snaps from an epic weekend speaking at TEDx Boston Planet Action at MIT's Kresgy Auditorium, where I met so many brilliant people. Special thanks to family members who came to support me and to the incredible organizers and coaches, Alison Sander, Davey Bakhshi, Caty Byerly Rezendes, & John Werner.

I’m speaking TODAY! At 1:30 or thereabouts. I’m so excited to be here with so many brilliant, interesting people. If you’re in Boston, come on down! I don’t think you even need a ticket.

i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔

"The future is still being written. Through choices in policy, investment, education, and care for one another and the Earth, we can still create a turning point. It begins by embracing our shared humanity and recognizing the profound interconnectedness of all life on the planet"

CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.

🌍 Join me at #PlanetAction — a festival of the future. Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA 3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence. 🔬Turn insights into action FREE TICKETS → luma.comideas-in-action TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium

"These notes describe orphan wells spewing toxic water near homes or into streams, leaving scars of salt residue. A homeowner reported that his grandchildren often play near a purging well. Ranchers have lost calves, which, drawn to the salty water, died after drinking it."

😮 indeed!

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. It has news, resources, jobs, great stories, and more. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Melanie Winter @whaddaworld.bsky.social was a visionary, and fierce, with a mind like a microfiche of all the city reports that have ever been. RIP, Melanie, I'm so glad I had a chance to know you. @ianjames.bsky.social, what a lovely obit. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great piece about efforts to save and plant seagrass meadows. Two key lines: "Seagrasses account for an estimated 10% of all the carbon stored by the world’s oceans." "At current rates... a football field’s worth of seagrasses disappears every second."

In early October, 50 African gray parrots were released into the wild by the Lukuru Foundation, after having been rescued from poachers and undergoing rehabilitation for a year at a refuge run by the foundation.

'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September. In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.' via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel

California is protecting environmental expertise by hiring fired federal EPA scientists for key state roles. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Wind damage

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.