Some happy news! won a @coveringclimatenow.org award for my reporting on how to bring a forest back to life in a warming world for @theverge.com. Thank you @icfjorg.bsky.social & Punto y Aparte, I couldn’t have reported this on the ground without your support coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...

The Verge received a Covering Climate Now award for this story about a quirky and determined community of scientists and locals bringing forests back to life in Costa Rica, despite new perils brought on by climate change. Congrats to @justcalma.bsky.social on the well-deserved win!

Wow @justcalma.bsky.social just won a Covering Climate Now award for her story on forest restoration in Costa Rica! So deserved coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...

Wildfire smoke is an insidious and growing public health threat

It was great to chat with @emilypont.bsky.social @heatmap.news about my book EXTRACTION. We discussed why mining is so conflictual, the power relations of extractive frontiers, how organized communities fare better & why we should use the public sector to proactively plan + govern. Link ⬇️

Big Tech is on a giant data center construction splurge, and @justcalma.bsky.social has the scoop about how the NAACP is creating a playbook for communities to ensure their health and well-being are being protected. www.theverge.com/exclusive/77...

Vee @vicmsong.bsky.social brings an intersectional lens to her writing on tech, health, and wearables, I really value her voice on this beat and super excited for this newsletter!

Exclusive — The NAACP and grassroots groups have come together to craft demands for new data center projects in guiding principles they shared first with The Verge www.theverge.com/exclusive/77...

When Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson searched "Is DC safe?", the top Google News result was a White House article. www.cjr.org/analysis/the... @dmil.bsky.social @towcenter.bsky.social

Trump’s immigration crackdown could be slowing the hunt for child predators online

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

When the Blade Breaks

Workers need better protections from the heat

Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

Microplastics are in the air, and there’s really only one way to stop it. www.theverge.com/report/75886...

We’re seeing a revisionist history unfold. www.theverge.com/science/7570...

A few weeks ago, RFK Jr’s vision for “every American wearing a wearable in four years” made me viscerally upset. But I finally found the words and get a little personal with how 11 years of wearable testing has helped — and hurt — my health. www.theverge.com/analysis/756...

Some weekend reading - A small city in Kentucky is ground zero for the Trump administration’s plans to bring uranium enrichment back to the US so nuclear energy can power AI (with very little oversight, of course) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

"worst-case scenario—J.J. is taken away from me, and I’m put in prison. I don’t think I’m being paranoid. I think I’m being cautious." www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...

NEW: Google dubbed an error from its healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine. www.theverge.com/health/71804...

wrote about the ways climate chang is making "Alligator Alcatraz" a human rights emergency for @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...

And here it is: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Fossil fuels and forever chemicals are big winners in Trump’s AI plan www.theverge.com/climate-chan...

Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

“Red-tagging” has been used to target & criminalize environmental activists, and it’s happening on Facebook. “They said it’s not dangerous, so they can’t take it down … I hope that Meta would understand, in Indonesia, it’s dangerous,” one woman tells me www.theverge.com/news/713976/...

“There are moments when my hands tremble too hard to hold a pen, when I can’t focus my eyes on the camera lens in front of me. The hunger scrambles everything—thought, memory, even language.” Journalists, too, are starving in Gaza. Read the full report here. www.cjr.org/news/journal...

It isn’t enough to kill renewables and pave the way for more gas and coal plants to power AI data centers. Trump is also obsessed with tossing out environmental protections www.theverge.com/climate-chan...

How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter

We’ve seen that failing to translate flood forecasts into clear, timely messages that tell people how to stay safe can have tragic consequences. In Texas and elsewhere, the solution is more wide-ranging than fixing any single channel of communication. www.theverge.com/science/7093...

In an essay for VF, Rümeysa Öztürk details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent being held in a South Louisiana ICE detention center: “Even God cannot hear us here,” said one woman.

Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods

The New York Times' obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, but as Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

RFK Jr. is poised to use 'AI' to weaponize the CDC's critical vaccine incident reporting system, in yet another of his assaults on public health.

“The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday placed 144 employees on administrative leave and opened an investigation into their decision to sign a letter accusing the Trump administration of politicizing the agency.” Gift link:

On top of more pollution, wholesale electricity prices could also increase by 25 percent by 2030 as a result of the big spending bill Congress just passed www.theverge.com/news/697017/...

Senate Republicans today passed a sweeping spending bill that narrowly avoided punitive tax measures on renewable energy but still threatens to stall its growth in the US www.theverge.com/news/696047/...

The GOP’s big spending bill could kill renewable energy projects

How extreme heat disproportionately affects Latino neighborhoods

Covering water and power has made cybersecurity a pretty wild part of my beat, and cuts to federal programs only make things more uncertain www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

'Scared to be brown': California residents fearful amid immigration raids

Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

The US is stripping its forests of decades-old protections

New York’s getting a new nuclear power plant

The new lies spreading about climate change

So about SGF 2025...

Antivaxxers have long branded their movement as about "choice" but soon, most may not have the choice to get lifesaving immunizations for their children or themselves.

Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster