Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2304202...

More than half of LNG ship emissions come from methane that "slips" unburned through ship engines. Illustration by @cooljerk.bsky.social

Thanks to @cooljerk.bsky.social for putting together this map.

Plus, check out my story on climate corridors and miles and miles of undeveloped wilderness in Western Maine -- come for the photos, stay for the trout and tales of 1800s logging practices insideclimatenews.org/news/1304202...

(from the archives) Stumbled across this oldie-but-goodie, c. April 2017. Handy reference guide to Enbridge's Line 5 leaks across Michigan and Wisconsin. @insideclimatenews.org reporting by @shankman.bsky.social (now with The Boston Globe— hi, Sabrina!)

The early 1980s was pretty treacherous for iced-over Minnesota lakes. Climate change, warmer winters and how that impacts ice fishing (and deaths due to thin ice). @insideclimatenews.org story by Kristoffer Tigue, here: insideclimatenews.org/news/1501202...

“We’re going to have to let go of a lot of the 20th century. That’s what these events are telling us,” says @johnvaillant.bsky.social, the author of the book “Fire Weather,” of the wildfires in Los Angeles. insideclimatenews.org/news/1601202...

Explainer of a polar vortex, which has become an annual event over much of the U.S. of late. This graphic has been published a few times over the years, most recently for Kristoffer Tigue's @insideclimatenews.org story last week. insideclimatenews.org/news/1001202...

Explaining the Santa Ana winds, a contributor to the nightmarish conflagrations in and around Los Angeles this past week. Typical Santa Anas have gusts up to 50-60 mph; some gusts last week clocked in around 100 mph.

It me. insideclimatenews.org/news/2912202...

Graphics to accompany today's investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) story by @katiesurma.bsky.social and @nkus (on the old Twitter), found here: insideclimatenews.org/news/0812202...

A look at longwall mining and the potentially life-threatening problems associated with carving out coal from under your home/neighborood. Read the @insideclimatenews.org stories by colleagues @leehedgepeth and @jbruggers. #coalmining #longwallmining #crimsonnoakgrovemine #methane #alabama

From the archives (Dec. 2021). Like "The Blob" (1958) it's gigantic and utterly unstoppable unless it can be frozen. As of two years ago it was less than 10 feet from engulfing the Dalton Highway in Alaska. #permafrost #daltonhighway #frozendebrislobe #thaw #alaska

From @bberwyn.bsky.social on that other site: x.com/bberwyn/stat...

NEW, with @mckennapr.bsky.social: Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement? insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...

it me!

“Climate-wash?” Apple’s recent announcement that the Apple Watch is “carbon neutral” is questioned in a new report by a highly regarded Chinese environmental research organization. insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202... My latest for Inside Climate News.

From the archives (Sept. 2020) #carboncapture #CO2storage

From the archives (Sept. 2014) I wonder how things are going now, nine years later. #carbon #runningoutoftime

From the archives (Sept. 2021) #manatees

From the archives (Sept. 2021) #rightsofnature #orangecountyflorida #lakehart #lakemaryjane

From the archives (Sept. 2015) #exxonknew #timeline This was part of ICN's coverage of Exxon's involvement in climate change, and was a Pulitzer finalist for that year.

From the archives (Sept. 2022) #carboncapture #CO2 #exxon

From the archives (Sept. 2017) #tick #tickprevention

From the archives (Sept. 2017) #blacklung #coal #coalminer #coalmining #fossilfuels

From the archives (Sept. 2019) #amazon #carbonfootprint

And here's the link to our story, insideclimatenews.org/news/1309202..., which explores how wildlife biologists and tribes in Washington's Olympic Peninsula are educating people about cougars' ecosystem roles to foster coexistence instead of conflict.