Truly. I had the pleasure of writing for them when they went by Crosscut. It has turned out some excellent reporters. A grim day.

In a first-in-the-nation move, Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves​ that point to the evidence of health harms. Manufacturers are suing. This is what the labels say: “Understand the air quality implications of having an indoor gas stove.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

So, the president of Google called the Trump admin's climate denialism "fantastic." Read the latest from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com + @thelever.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Sometimes it's hard to grasp the scale of data center projects and the amount of power they might use. Here's one attempt to explain that for a proposed project in a rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. There's a public hearing on it Tuesday www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...

🚨 NEW 🚨 County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. buff.ly/ev66QkH

“What they’re offering people is not health insurance or economic security,” Stanley says. “They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.”

Heads up for users of Otter AI, especially if you connect it to any other apps, like Zoom or Teams: Lawsuit claims AI service Otter secretly records private chats www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...

The Karuk Tribe has been helping bring down barriers to beneficial burning in California, paving the way for rebalancing the land’s relationship with fire. More great 🔥 reporting from @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social

"Yes, the U.S. is a climate train wreck right now. But global warming is just like immigration or healthcare: Nothing will change if most of us do nothing." @sammyroth.bsky.social on the climate stakes of the Big Beautiful Bill and what comes next link.latimes.com/view/65d63a3...

Who is the self-styled "fossil fuel philosopher" behind the clean energy cuts in Trump’s deeply unpopular Big Beautiful Bill? Even GOP Sen. Tillis called him out on the Senate floor: people "without a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid." Learn more 👉

Your daily hit of marine marveling: these sea slugs can steal and store chloroplasts in mini fridge organelles for solar-powered food on the go! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Despite a “ban” on incoming Trump officials having links to Project 2025, more sitting cabinet members have links to Project 2025 than don’t, according to an exclusive @desmog.com analysis of these ties, which have not been previously reported (and mapped!) in this level of detail.

My latest from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: What holding your breath while hanging onto glass volleyballs has revealed about the climate over the past half century. The Keeling Curve, CO2 levels, and what this simple instrument is still teaching us www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

That moment when you’re listening to @scifri.bsky.social b/c fellow wildfire reporter @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social is talking about a registry tracking long-term firefighter health + you realize you know the reporter (hey Sophie Hartley!) behind the next story www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fir...

Too often we think of nature as 'untouched.' On one of California's Channel Islands, the presence of one small mammal reveals a much bigger truth: ecosystems are often shaped by ancient human choices we’ve long forgotten. Read my latest for @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/how-santa-ca...

Adorable, but you cannot hug this ground squirrel. From @ashleybraun.bsky.social -- this is probably how these cuties got to an island off the coast of California: www.biographic.com/how-santa-ca...

Note: This was the pipeline system that was going to be expanded into Keystone XL before huge climate opposition and Pres. Biden effectively made it impossible to build and TC Energy ended the project in 2021.

“A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.”

Read my story on WhaleSpotter's AI-powered, human-verified whale-saving technology, now republished on @nautil.us 👇

Super happy to see @ashleybraun.bsky.social's story picked up by Nautilus. Though seeing one of our stories reprinted does always make me appreciate the cleanliness of our website: nautil.us/ping-youve-g...

My latest story for @biographic.bsky.social on the power of AI and humans to protect whales from becoming maritime roadkill 🐳 🚫🛳️

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In California, summer could be on the chopping block. Thousands of campsites and trails could close because of the government’s budget and staffing cuts, a forest service memo said.

Fantastic @desmog.bsky.social post detailing how solidly Musk is now positioned as one of the single greatest threats to climate action we have ever faced www.desmog.com/2025/02/20/e... @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @joefassler.bsky.social @adambarnett.bsky.social

Folks I've spoken to who work in NEPA are very worried about the potential implications of this. Nice explainer

Canceling a meeting on biological diversity to save $11,000 as part of a push "to reprioritize unity, equality, and meritocracy." Very curious to see how meritocracy and equality applies to heavily subsidized American agriculture?

The world may be a flaming garbage pile, but did you know it still contains 10 species of hutia, real life Rodents of Unusual Size? They DO exist. These Caribbean critters strike a mix between rat, squirrel, and capybara and tend to live in trees and rock crevices. The biggest are 2 ft long, 18 lbs!

Whatever Musk says about his own climate beliefs: his very public embrace of right-wing populists is invigorating a transatlantic movement aiming to spread doubt about the reality of climate change and sabotage action on the crisis. 🚨 Important new global investigation 🚨

LEAKED: Who’s trying to “re-lay the foundations of civilization”? Execs from some of the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are listed as attendees at a conservative conference in London whose keynote speakers include the leader of the Heritage Foundation, the group that published Project 2025.

So who is the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator? Asking for a friend, the United States of America

Remember: just because you pelican does not mean you peli-should. Photo by Mark Smith

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Sleek ad campaigns give oil companies a green sheen. And the ad & PR firms behind them use the same slick tactics to portray themselves as climate champions. Major new @desmog.bsky.social investigation I edited reveals how: www.desmog.com/2025/02/10/a...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Trump's funding freeze isn't totally unfrozen for some nonprofits + researchers working on enviro justice, climate + clean energy. “I am overwhelmed trying to make decisions based on the information we have, and the information keeps changing,” one group CEO says www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here's what I've heard so far from inside the National Cancer Institute as well as other NIH institutes.

If you’re looking for a summary of how Southern California (and the rest) ended up in catastrophic flames, here’s the long view, as told by @Manjula in The Last Fire Season: colonization, resource extraction, genocide, fire exclusion, boom/bust development, climate change

In case you were wondering what kind of wealth, effort, and mental fortitude is required to make a home fire-resistant in a fire-adapted ecosystem where fire's been suppressed 100+ years, climate change worsened, & population increased, see this stunning example from Malibu and the LA fires

Interesting proposition that insurers should sue the fossil fuel industry to recoup costs for the LA fires (and that there's precedent) but probably won't because of its own investments in/insurance of the fossil fuel industry

On a lighter note: Today's AI transcription fluke reveals a higher truth about my inbox. There are a certain number of emails that can give birth, but at an exponentially higher rate

Right on schedule: Here’s that Trump executive order reversing the Biden pause on LNG export approvals www.energy.gov/articles/us-...

I love my "acoustic" bikes but in hilly Seattle, I'm much more likely to take my e-bike across town or laden with heavy groceries, definitely resulting in some serious exercise 🚲

US oil & gas production are at historic highs. Crime, border crossings, and inflation are rapidly falling. And lo, Trump is riding into office on promises to boost oil & gas production and reduce crime, border crossings, and inflation.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: www.reuters.com/business/env...

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Shoutout to @umairfan.bsky.social at Vox for his excellent context, some of the only I've seen, on the #LAFires, which explains that these devastating wildfires are not just about the interaction of worsening climate change and powerful Santa Ana winds. They both are and they aren't.

I lived within blocks of the Fremont Bridge for over a decade, its low foghorn bleating dozens of times a day to the waiting barges, sailboats, yachts, and fishing vessels below, a rhythm I didn’t realize I was moving to till it was gone, like a beloved bird’s call to its mate, I’m here, I’m here

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This kind of dilemma will become increasingly common: what to do with orcas, captive-born or having spent nearly their entire lives in captivity, after their marine parks shut down or bend to public pressure to rehome them. Intelligent, social, reliant on human care www.bbc.com/news/article...