@islandpress.bsky.social books are part of this 50% off sale!

You're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but in this case, I think it's appropriate. Beautiful cover, beautiful writing!

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social is hiring an Agriculture/Environmental Reporter to produce coverage of agricultural and environmental issues affecting central Illinois with audio-rich stories accompanied by digital content. jobs.pmja.org/job/agricult...

DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19. Learn more:

I love to see best-of book lists that reach outside the Big 4: lithub.com/100-notable-...

For $6.99, you might get 2-3 items at the grocery store. For the same amount, you can learn why our food system is the way it is and how it can be better. Check out @islandpress.bsky.social ebooks like Barn Gothic, Bet the Farm, Healing Grounds, and many others! islandpress.org/books/barn-g...

The Georgia public utility commissioner election may be a bell weather, but it's also important in its own right. These candidates made the connection between renewable energy and lower bills, and Georgia voters responded. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Thanks to @kennytorrella.bsky.social for a positive news story: www.vox.com/future-perfe... I can't look at these faces without thinking about my sweet pup and the horror of her living in a cage like this.

There is still time to read the great selections on the summer reading list from @sightline.org including Arbitrary Lines by @mnolangray.bsky.social and Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman @islandpress.bsky.social @emilyturner2000.bsky.social

Two beautiful and challenging (in the best sense of the word) lines by poet Andrea Gibson (8/13/1975 - 7/14/2025): "Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for." "Why did I go so long believing I owed the world my disappointment?"

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

I just had this conversation at my book club last week: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Join me in one week at @politicsprose.bsky.social at The Wharf for a discussion about my book and forever chemicals #BookSky #GreenSky #PFAS politics-prose.com/rachel-frazin

The #DOD used firefighting foam with toxic #PFAS for decades, knowing it contaminated water and was linked to serious health issues. New book by @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social -- #PoisoningTheWell: How #ForeverChemicals Contaminated America. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Great book out Tuesday that was my pleasure to participate in. Poisoning the Well, an exposé of #PFAS coverup & firsthand look at the communities suffering. Superman’s not coming: see how people are fighting back. By journalists @sharonudasin & @RachelFrazin bookshop.org/p/books/pois...

A wonderful review for @schwartzstein.bsky.social “The Heat and the Fury is an extraordinary work that advances the scholarship on climate security in a text that is as accessible to newcomers as it is enriching for academic specialists.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is pleased to announce its request for applications for the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. More details: clf.jhsph.edu/education/fo...

Tom Henry @sejorg.bsky.social calls The Heat and Fury by @schwartzstein.bsky.social "bold, ambitious, incredibly researched and deftly written." www.sej.org/publications...

I know I just said I prefer paper books, but if a book I want is $4.99, I will definitely read on screen! That's the case for books from Island Press until 3/2, so charge up your tablet and learn how to protect our threatened world: www.islandpress.org/bestseller-499

Well-deserved praise!

After fighting with my tablet all week, I realize another reason that, for me, paper will always be the better technology: it never runs out of power.

@jmingle.bsky.social is on a roll with the awards - as he should be! www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...

Congrats, @jmingle.bsky.social!

I'm honored to be @foodandwater.bsky.social 's Book of the Year 🥳 Join if yah can tomorrow night. I'll be talking with their Founder & Executive Director Wenonah Hauter about it as well as taking questions.

WATCH: Rachel Frazin, energy and environment reporter at The Hill and co-author of the upcoming book POISONING THE WELL, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the impact of forever chemicals. www.youtube.com/watc...

Actor-activist @markruffalo.bsky.social presses Biden to act fast on 'forever chemicals' before Trump takes office #PFAS thehill.com/policy/energ...