Climate change is global. But the impacts are felt locally. Climate Central has a new feature that can help you tell your city’s climate story, finding the impacts that matter the most for you and your community. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-local

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Some Delaware news that might have been missed yesterday

Suffering from a dangling tooth on a broken jaw, grizzled Fat Bear Week veteran 32 “Chunk” became the 2025 champion. Now in its 11th year, the annual bracket tournament celebrates the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they bulk up for hibernation. https://wapo.st/3ICxdB4

Delaware will certainly miss Sarah's reporting. Interesting to see some legislation addressing people's concerns about the pending data center near Delaware City - www.delawarepublic.org/politics-gov...

Of note during today’s reassessment committee meeting in Dover is that Tyler Technologies mentioned “re-gentrification” in explaining how localized values can get lost in mass reassessments, which are based on modeling rather than actual in-person evals btw. spotlightdelaware.org/2025/09/30/w...

NEW: The Trump admin asking TikTok investors for a multibillion-dollar payment to US is the latest extractive “fee for service” from WH. "These are shakedown schemes…I'd even call it extortion…Privately, CEOs are horrified." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g... w/ @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

“If your last name isn’t Murdoch or Sulzberger, the days of family control of publicly traded newspaper companies is over.”

Two law firms and certain attorneys engaged in a scheme to "grossly and blatantly" inflate damages estimates for hurricane-related property insurance claims in order to "collect an exorbitant fee which they would all share," Louisiana residents said.

After we reported on the Pentagon's new draconian demands on the press, lawmakers and media organizations — including The Washington Post— condemned the government's policy as an affront to the First Amendment. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:

Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw

NPR to trim $5 million as some public radio stations struggle to pay bills My story for NPR NPR cuts $5 million as public radio stations struggle to pay bills www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

Getting finance, science and policy all on the same ground to support efforts like these has been years in the making, said Ashley Allen Jones of the nonprofit Conservation Innovation Fund. More from me at delawarecurrents.org/2025/09/15/d.... Time will tell how this effort fares moving forward.

A group of journalists gathered at Lebanon's Martyrs’ Square in Beirut to express support for their Palestinian colleagues reporting in Gaza, holding the pictures of some of the 274 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since it began its war on the enclave.

Fox News execs called Jeanine Pirro 'reckless maniac' and more when she was a network star My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/09/04/n...

My latest local environmental coverage for @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social. The data shows emissions are down but residents still feel out of the loop. spotlightdelaware.org/2025/09/02/t...

Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

Protecting the highway from Mother Nature

Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm. Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague ​“national security” concerns. grist.org/energy/trump... #Wind #Energy #RI #MA #BosPoli #Mass

Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being halted. The latest from @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social: spotlightdelaware.org/2025/08/26/t...

President Trump threatened to investigate former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey over a 2013 political scandal, days after the FBI raided the home and office of another former Trump official turned critic.

The Trump administration has halted work on an offshore wind farm that was almost completed, citing vague “national security” concerns with its construction #GreenSky

Hurricane Erin is poised to bring deadly rip currents to the entire US East Coast, as well as destructive waves and storm surge to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Meanwhile, Atlantic hurricane season is hitting its stride, threatening to spin up another named storm in Erin’s wake.

Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage By @maddylauria.bsky.social for NPR News www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

The White House inherited a system for handling outbreaks. No one left knows how to use it, Stephanie Psaki, Beth Cameron, and Jon Finer argue.

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

Since the coal plant closed in 2016, researchers have tracked respiratory and cardiovascular ER visits & hospitalizations before & after the shutdown-finding dramatic improvement..an immediate 20% decrease in weekly ER visits for respiratory problems & a 40% decrease in visits for pediatric asthma

Awesome explainer of what’s going on with PJM, with data! 🤓

Corporation for Public Broadcasting calls it a day after US Senate panel includes no CPB funding for next fiscal year - will all but close on Sept 30 Official statement mailchi.mp/cpb/corporat...

Why your energy bill is suddenly so much more expensive And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon. grist.org/energy/why-y... #Bills #Electricity #Climate #Energy #Utilities

🖋️ Red-y or Knot, Delaware has a new star! The Red Knot is officially the state's migratory bird. These robin-sized travelers make a 9,000-mile journey, stopping along Delaware Bay to feast on horseshoe crab eggs before flying to the Arctic. Read more: bit.ly/40WPm2k

Finally an animation - today's visualization addition shows changes in yearly temperature anomalies from 1940 to 2024... Graphic can be downloaded from zacklabe.com/united-state... using ERA5 data.

Texas’ leaders say the Legislature's session will address flood warning systems and natural disaster preparation. A Democratic state lawmaker is skeptical after years of inaction. “The manual was there, and we ignored it,” she said. With @texastribune.org

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Excited to share our new @nature.com paper mapping global mycorrhizal richness and rarity, led by Michael Van Nuland. Over 90% of richness hotspots lie outside protected areas: a critical gap in conservation. Proud to contribute as part of the @spun.earth consortium! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥Today is 2025's official #EarthOvershootDay🔥 Today we pass the point where the resources we demand from the Earth exceed what it can regenerate in a year. This is the earliest Earth Overshoot Day ever recorded. But this doesn't have to be our destiny. #MoveTheDate. 🧵

There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet. Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent protection. grist.org/climate/ther... #Nature #Mushrooms #Climate #Fungi #Plants #Environment

Be the vigilante arborist you want to see in the world

Seeing fewer fireflies this year? Here’s why, and how you can help. grist.org/science/seei... #Insects #Climate #Environment #bugs #Conservation #Lights #Woods #forests

Constitutional crisis is here

The law that President Trump signed on July 4 ending tax incentives for wind and solar projects is expected to drive up electricity bills across the U.S., with some of the sharpest increases in Republican-led states, according to Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan think tank.

The chemical concentrations in the air after this event were reportedly within health advisory limits, but this isn’t the first time - and won’t be the last - the refinery has had problems with excess emissions and violations related to its operations. My latest for @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social

Nearly two weeks after Delaware’s 2025 legislative session ended, several notable bills still await Gov. Matt Meyer’s signature, including measures on marijuana zoning and immigration enforcement.

“Any one of these intense rainfall events has a low chance of occurring in a given year, so to see events that are historic and record-breaking in multiple parts of the country over the course of one week is even more alarming." More from @nbcnews.com ⤵️ www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz announced plans to reincorporate in Nevada, saying that it was no longer a "no-brainer" to launch a company and incorporate in the historically corporate-friendly state of Delaware. www.law360.com/artic...

New Castle, DE Police / Fire confirm that a #crash involving a tractor trailer on the Delaware Memorial Bridge has @demembridge and the Coast Guard searching the river. #dmbcrash @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social