Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!

"Keeping aging fossil-fuel plants open could cost U.S. consumers more than $3 billion annually."

This:

Lovely to receive the first copies of my new book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet." Thanks to www.evangaffneydesign.com for the great cover design.

Metaphor alert:

What we have wrought:

Fortunate that @climatecentral.org is keeping the billion-dollar climate-related disaster list going, as the first half of 2025 was a doozy. You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From the rally today in front of the American Embassy in Berlin:

Where we are as a country:

How Trump's tariffs will help destroy (what's left of) Brazil's Cerrado, from @sominisengupta.bsky.social

A tale of two energy systems: “For coal, oil and gas, it’s white glove service. For renewables and storage, it’s freezes, delays and cancellations.”

"This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable."

Trump administration wants to roll back regulations on HFCs (very potent greenhouse gases) OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE APPLIANCE INDUSTRY.

Why offer a report on future threats when you don't care about the future?

Not good. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the only groups to benefit from Trump's international aid cuts: wildlife traffickers.

"Neither the companies nor the administration has shared the science backing the claim that recycling nuclear fuel at commercial scale using current industry techniques is safe or practical."

The WSJ speaking: "America has given up its effort to challenge China in the renewable-energy industries that increasingly power the global economy."

🌊 One-quarter of freshwater species are at risk of extinction, warns the IUCN Red List. From crabs to fish, these creatures are vital for ecosystems and human livelihoods. Pollution, habitat loss, and invasive species drive this crisis.🐟🦐 📷 IUCN 🗞️ iucn.org/press-releas...

Must take good news where you can get it these days:

"It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for."

New study says more than 70 percent of Atlantic corals will "begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios."

NEW – IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/SV5n4NW

The latest installment in suing the press into submission:

This is what the Trump administration sends its cabinet ministers to Europe to talk about, one day after Poland shoots down Russian drones violating its airspace.

Why protect some of the most spectacular places in the U.S. when you can fill them with fracking wells?

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

Despite 140+ countries having committed to end deforestation by 2030, the world has not made progress yet, and if anything rates of forest loss are increasing. gfr.wri.org/latest-analy....

Recommend this piece in @nybooks.com by @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on how the SCOTUS majority keeps changing the rules to reach the decisions that it wants.

"Trump has taken to phoning oil bosses whose TV appearances he enjoys."

Trump administration wants to "turn off" satellites gathering climate change data, ostensibly to save money. A former NOAA scientist compares this to running your car into a tree in order to save money on gas.

Apparently RFK Jr. is not just opposed to vaccines, he's against germ theory. This makes him less qualified to be HHS secretary than most five-year-olds.

Apparently RFK Jr. is not just opposed to vaccines, he's against to germ theory. This makes him less qualified to be HHS secretary than most five-year-olds.

Why is it that R senators are always "concerned," but never do anything about it?

Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.

The U.S. is becoming a petrostate, example #423:

Lovely to see my forthcoming book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet" on Time's list of most anticipated books for the fall! time.com/7311382/best...

Join @amyscott.bsky.social‬, host of How We Survive, and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer @elizkolbert.bsky.social in conversation with @kairyssdal.bsky.social on September 9. Register for free at mktplc.org/4mUAhXz. Presented by Odoo with additional underwriting support from The Economist.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

If you were out to destroy the world, this is how you'd do it:

“A heat wave at 50 degrees is not a scenario of science fiction." That's 122 degrees F. In Paris. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

"POTUS to President Putin," the document states, "American Bald Eagle Desk Statue."

AMS State of the Global Climate in 2024. Continent Scorecard Nth America: Hottest on Record Sth America: Hottest on Record Europe: Hottest on Record Africa: Hottest on Record Asia: 2nd Hottest on Record Australia: 2nd Hottest on Record Antarctica: 2nd lowest sea ice www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...

A lot of attention has been paid to the decrease in bee populations and other pollinators, but a recent review article makes the case that we should be equally alarmed by the declining numbers of seed-dispersing animals, which are crucial for growing healthy forests.

Guess which country is blocking an international treaty to reduce plastic pollution?

First chestnuts and elms, now ash and beeches -- America's iconic trees are being killed off at a truly alarming rate.

Here's an idea: people in DC should start offering federal law enforcement agents sandwiches.

I’m thrilled to share that my new collection, "Life on a Little‑Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World," will be released on November 4th. It’s now available for preorder in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook formats.

Undermining the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could well lead to a loss of vaccine access in the United States – a dangerous scenario.

I'd say this is astonishing, except, of course, that it isn't.