Here's my deep dive on the serious homeowners insurance situation that Idaho is facing and some possible ways forward. The reporting forced me to rethink some of my assumptions, and I hope it helps folks better understand this serious problem. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:

Going down a rabbit hole for a feature I’m writing on Indigenous fire 🔥 and ended up with Kari Marie Norgaard’s book “Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature & Social Action,” a case study on the Karuk Tribe in NW California. This right here about sums it up:

Well, glad we settled that little privacy issue, Facebook

I'm excited to join @laurenfeldman.bsky.social, @tracybaim.bsky.social, @timafranklin.bsky.social, & @columbiajournalism.bsky.social's Duy Linh Nguyen Tu for a @nationalacademies.org session on strategies for advancing high-quality science journalism. Thurs, 11/13 (1 PM ET). Register: bit.ly/3WJZGYW

Helps explain the Bill Gates climate memo: Gates Foundation gave $3.5M to climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg, who collaborated w/ Gates, said climate change "is not the existential threat that some would have us believe," supported fossil fuels as a poverty solution www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this: www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

I've been a freelance fact-checker for @sciencenews.bsky.social for 9 years. They deserve equitable and transparent pay and flexible remote work policy.

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

When you literally have the receipts

Important caveat is "for now." They can't keep this up forever if the seas and the climate keeps keep warming, pointed out researchers. But these fish showed surprising resilience (and so did the next generation) in the face of repeated ocean heatwaves > read more in my @biographic.bsky.social story

Marine heatwaves are getting worse but some fish have the potential to cope—for now and pass it on to their young. My latest story

"It’s important not to look away." A global die-off of coral reefs from ocean heating indicates we've passed the first climate tipping point, according to a new report. www.sciencenews.org/article/cora...

And by Thurs, Oct. 15, I mean Thurs, Oct. 16 🤦‍♀️.

Thursday, Oct. 15 is the Great #WAShakeout, a day of earthquake drills and prep for the disasters that are inevitably coming (sorry, but it's true). www.shakeout.org/washington/i...

Ocean heatwaves are getting hotter, longer and more frequent. But what if some marine life could pass on resilience to multiple heatwaves to future generations? A paperclip-sized fish holds clues. My latest for @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/these-fish-c...

@adambecker.bsky.social hey, it's been a minute! congrats on the new book! @desmog.com is covering a ton at the intersection of climate + AI/tech these days. e.g., see www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o... One of our reporters would love to chat with you. DM me.

NYPD's "building vast, hidden repositories of data it collects on everyone in the city, with no clear boundaries on how it can be used" w/ surveillance on "a scale that it has begun to erode a large number of people’s basic civil rights" says Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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 🐳 🚫🛳️

Subscribed! Psyched to see these excellent journalists dig even deeper into issues at this critical time 👇🏼

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. 🧵⬇️