I attended a talk by a scientist at a Chinese University and realized that all the background climate data that she used came from the US (CO₂ Keeling Curve, global temperature time series, etc.). Although China funds a lot of research, the destruction of US science will affect science globally.

RIP Dead Guy Ale 💀 kmun.org/rogue-brewer...

Importantly, this is the first time in recent memory that none of the major U.S. broadcasters — CBS, (which fired it's entire climate desk), NBC, ABC, and Fox — bothered to send anyone to Belém, Brazil for the ongoing COP30 global climate conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"During his first day at FEMA, Richardson held an all-hands meeting that quickly made headlines. He told thousands of staff members listening in: 'Don’t get in my way.'" What he meant was: Don't get in my way to the exit. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

If you missed it, here's what it was like to see, hear, and (if you were Eba the research dog) smell last week's orca superpod: www.kuow.org/stories/rare...

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to witness back to back days of a Southern Resident superpod. Here is our map covering their movements over the course of three days. A true superpod occurs when all members of the J, K, and L pods gather together in the same location. That’s 74 whales! #orcas

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

Superpods—all-inclusive family reunions—are important for the endangered orcas. They let the whales breed across their three different pods and boost the small, inbred population’s waning genetic diversity. www.kuow.org/stories/rare...

If you ask historians of medicine what keeps them up at night, many will not say a new plague or bioterrorism, they will answer, "antibiotic resistance."

Billionaires like Gates owe much of their success to scientists. Without basic science research, there's no Microsoft. So, when it comes to assessing global problems, I tend to want to listen to scientists, not billionaires. But maybe that's just me ... www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Did you catch the superpod (all 74 endangered orcas) that visited Seattle and Puget Sound this week? Here’s what it was like: www.kuow.org/stories/rare...

Shorter and more accurate headlines would be: "Trump admits his tariffs raised food prices for Americans."

I recorded a short video op-ed to help cut through the noise surrounding the ongoing COP30 climate conference. In short: now is not the time to scale back our efforts to address climate change--quite the opposite, as the intensifying consequences have never been clearer.

this is good data journalism www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

It just keeps piling up. "The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign."

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Throwback: In 1976 a woman was pulled over and ticketed for biking on Greenwood Ave because she was not going the 35mph speed limit. She and @cascade.org challenged (and lost), and Seattle Police leaders told the Council that they should ban biking on city streets. The SPD spokesperson? Tim Burgess.

SUPERPOD! Orca fans (and researchers) were thrilled when the entire population of southern resident killer whales (all 74 of 'em) met up in Puget Sound this week. www.kuow.org/stories/rare...

“At least in the inland waters where human onlookers abound, superpods are rare, with this one the first of 2025 in the Salish Sea of Washington and British Columbia, according to the Orca Behavior Institute.”

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

WELL THIS IS FUCKIN' COOL

Earlier this week, all 74 of the Northwest’s endangered orcas gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion.

Flying is the most carbon polluting way to travel but on the eve of #COP30, the UN’s aviation body said it expected passenger flight numbers to *triple* by 2050, to 12.4 billion a year Post by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SUPERPOD! Orca fans (and researchers) were thrilled when the entire population of southern resident killer whales (all 74 of 'em) met up in Puget Sound this week. www.kuow.org/stories/rare...

It's a frisbee! Nature has been hurling tiny frisbees for eons--who knew?!

Maybe using the sky as a waste dump for our co2 pollution is not such a great idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...

The Epstein files loomed large over today's House vote on ending the shutdown. After she was sworn in, Rep. Adelita Grijalva signed a petition to force a vote demanding the full release of the Justice Department’s files. By Ana Ceballos @latimes.com www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Ex-EPA officials I spoke to remember past administrators avoiding trips during shutdowns Lee Zeldin went a different route — going to 11 states and Canada, recording 16 days for travel since this lapse's start on Oct. 1 "Not a good look," said an agency staffer www.eenews.net/articles/zel...

As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.

Two years ago Colombia's president pledged to stop awarding new exploration contracts for oil, gas, and coal. On the world stage, this was a big deal. Now the question is: how is Colombia's energy transition going? NPR went to Colombia to find out 🇨🇴 Read and listen here - only on @npr.org

3 vaccines, 1 bandage. So efficiently making America healthy! (Flu, Covid booster, and shingles #2)

chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams

Nations have begun climate negotiations at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Studies show the world is not on track to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change. n.pr/3XsXgy9

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

I cannot stress this enough right now: share journalism that you think is good. You might not always be able to afford subscriptions or to tip journos but since everyone seems able to hate on headlines they dislike etc., they must also have the power to elevate good quality writing! We need it.

support for STEM education seems dedicated to making little worker bee software engineers of us all & not to supporting say marine or wildlife biologists, ecologists, meteorologists and their conservation efforts…

“Rad’s leadership is actively pursuing all viable options to keep the company operating.” @mnickelsburg.bsky.social has the latest on Ballard's Rad Power Bikes facing closure. www.kuow.org/stories/rad-...

Rad is one of the largest e-bike sellers in the US. This could be a critical moment for the nation’s e-bike movement as a whole.

What you don't talk about still can hurt you.

Good work, everyone insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...

The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

Ah NPR, the calm, measured voice of news that would never resort to sensationalist clickbait headlines