Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

I just got the Taiwanese edition of The Light Eaters in the mail. This is just elite book design

“The BBC has documented at least half a dozen first-hand, devastating accounts in areas where USAID-supported clinics have shut down.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived. Researchers are trying to figure out why.

Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."

Important piece by my colleague Gisela Salim-Peyer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products. The result is this story. I hope you'll take the time to read. wapo.st/4g3ZoFc

Following the Trump administration’s cuts to FEMA, many former staffers have begun to work for private contractors that states will have to rely on for disaster response—but not every state may be able to afford that, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

I wrote about how the the brain drain of emergency managers from FEMA and HUD is flowing directly into disaster consulting companies. It's probably time to talk about the privatization of American disaster response. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Unsurprisingly, deforestation contributes much, much more to drought and rainfall changes in the Amazon than previously thought www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

Who wants this? I can't imagine Republican voters want this. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

In the early weeks of this administration I thought PFAS was a rare environmental issue it miiight take seriously, based on Lee Zeldin's time as a NY rep. I was wrong! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." This is wild. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"The U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more." by @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Don't worry. The states will still lead on climate action."

For @nytimes.com Magazine, I visited the Palisades burn scar to write about fire and resilience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...

Your dental fillings? Plastic. Your aligners? Plastic. Your floss, your toothbrush, your night guard?? Anyway the dentists are talking about it now so thought I'd mention it too (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Air pollution from oil and gas kills over 90,000 people in the US every year and makes hundreds of thousands more sick, disproportionately affecting Black and brown communities. But Republicans want to drill baby drill and kill more people because they're racist af.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence. "In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”

Every quote from Greco in here is just wild. Wild! www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

My latest on the Health Sec who promised to figure out what causes autism and the autism research that's been stopped along the way www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

I have an op-ed in @statnews.com today (with the incomparable Dr. Burcin Ikiz!) on the longterm neurological toll of wildfires: www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/w... (short 🧵 follows; not a story of 'climate anxiety')

"A homeowner with a 630 FICO score living in one of the safest places in the country — say a 1 on a climate-risk scale of 1 to 100 — might theoretically pay $3,028 a year.... A homeowner with an 820 FICO score living in an area that’s a 71 on the climate-risk scale would pay the same amount."

Comment period is open for the EPA's plan to rescind the endangerment finding. This will be an interesting public record for future generations. Part of the Mistaken Period when leadership was doing absolutely ridiculous things in the face of absurdly obvious countervailing evidence

Man I really hate this. As usual @cwarzel.bsky.social hits the shitty reality button www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"workers are not allowed to wear masks on the front line, even if they want to" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

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.

The Olympic Peninsula of Washington state — home to a literal rainforest — is experiencing its biggest wildfire in 70 years. Unlike a lot of the western US, the burn interval for this area is 200-500 *years.* www.kuow.org/stories/smok...

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

That Trump's nominee to lead the BLS was part of the Jan 6 insurrection, has a Nazi ship hanging in his Zoom background, has called for suspending the monthly jobs report, and wrote a paper incorrectly saying the country was in a recession in 2022 should, in a normal world, be an enormous scandal.

With the EPA targeting the Endangerment Finding, @ccallahan45.bsky.social, Alex Gottlieb, & I conducted an end-to-end attribution of climate damages from U.S. power sector emissions. The result: $78 billion in climate losses to the U.S. economy over 1973–2023. See here: zenodo.org/records/1687...

20-year-old Joselyn Chipantiza Sisalema "said she spent five days in clothing covered in menstrual blood, when guards offered the entire room of women just two menstrual pads." Horrific, crucial reporting on ICE detention conditions in NYC. Support @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/j...

"The destruction of the satellites — which will be abandoned and allowed to eventually burn up in a fiery descent into Earth’s atmosphere — marks the latest step by the Trump administration to scale back federal climate science." www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

"Fungi can see and react to a wide range of colors." journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Increasing temperatures from climate change have led to a 40% reduction in blue whale “songs” in just the past 6 years alone. “It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer. The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from climate change

The world's highest court declared greenhouse gas emissions a human rights violation. A week later, the EPA said it plans to rescind the government's legal assertion that GHGs endanger the public. America's most catastrophic form of exceptionalism. A gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

Just saying: we don't talk about this trend enough.

The big banks are walking back from public net-zero commitments. But they've also shrunk their financing of oil and gas projects by 25% from the previous year www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The U.S. voted against a United Nations resolution called "International Day of Hope" because of "diversity, equity and inclusion." -->climate action, abortion access, and text that's inclusive of transgender people: U.S. delegates have objected to all of it www.propublica.org/article/trum...

SCOOP from me: FEMA is planning to order states to immediately stop activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism - the latest in a broad federal move to downplay the threat:

I got to write about my favorite sea slug, can you even believe this thing www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"You should not be ingesting flame retardants." Yup. When I started reporting on plastic in 2023 (before that particular black plastic study came out), I asked every expert how they used (or avoided) plastic in their daily lives. Several told me they stopped using black plastic, esp in the kitchen.

I said what I said 😤 nymag.com/strategist/a...