If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

“If a developed country cannot take care of that waste, what do you think a developing country can do about that waste?” I reported from Ghana on the women most impacted by the global fashion industry's waste crisis: atmos.earth/fashion-and-...

"Kayayei carry the literal weight of the fashion industry’s greed and excess on their heads. Some pay for it with their lives." I reported from Ghana on the women who are bearing the brunt of fashion's waste crisis for @atmosmag.bsky.social: atmos.earth/fashion-and-...

Do you ever get so excited about the books you have on hold at the library that you refresh the library app every 3 hours or is it just me

This is cool—a call for applications for a Pennsylvania conservation program that explicitly calls out fungi as a group of "spe­cies often left out of tra­di­tional con­ser­va­tion pro­grams but vital to the Com­mon­wealth's eco­sys­tems." www.pressreader.com/usa/kane-rep...

Happy pub day @kkwilkinson.bsky.social 🩵

This bums me out

“The health of Palmyra’s coral reefs ultimately depends on seabirds, which depend on Pisonia trees for nesting, which depend on fungi,” said Charlie Cornwallis. “Remove any link in that chain and the whole system could unravel.” @spun.earth www.earth.com/news/native-...

Here's the suggest-a-site site nycdotprojects.info/SecureBikePa...

A good sign the program is alive! Still unclear whether DOT has finalized a contract with Tranzito & when actual siting/installation would happen

”We live in a throwaway society, be it the animals or their TV. People throw stuff away all the time, and somebody’s got to be there to clean it up.”

No place is perfect but I’m a very proud Guardian contributor for many reasons

thinking about the gould quote again

Gatherings for Black farmers aren't new, but in an era of shrinking federal resources, many farmers are choosing not to exhaust their energy on the challenges. Instead, they are inviting their peers to lead conversations and share resources while inspiring youth. capitalbnews.org/black-farmer...

Thank a fungi today 🍄🍄‍🟫 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe

Uhhh WHAT podcasters are just texting Trump and getting executive orders passed ?? "I sent him that information and the text message came back: ‘Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it,’” Joe Rogan said, recalling the president’s text. themicrodose.substack.com/p/trumps-psy...

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

Despite worsening pollution, the US has relatively clean air compared to much of the world and Americans have no idea how bad it will get once the full force of the regime’s anti-clean air policies are realized.

"Many people have internalized the idea that gas prices depend on global events; now they may be forced to recognize that dependence on plastic makes the world similarly vulnerable." @bethgardiner.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

“Fungi feed 90% of terrestrial plants. Without them, there is no life on the Earth.” - Anna Ralaiveloarisoa, Malagasy mycologist 🍄‍🟫 “What an exciting time.. fungal conservation is a dynamic global movement. The challenge is to make conservation of fungi mainstream." - Nourou Yorou, Benin mycologist

"Fungal conservation needs to include the kinds of active cultivation strategies already in use for flora and fauna. Nurseries raise threatened plant populations... but 'we are definitely not even close to that for thinking about the conservation of fungi.'" www.hcn.org/articles/why...

Fungi Foundation…began to champion the phrase “fauna, flora, funga” to encourage fungi’s inclusion in more conservation frameworks…90% of plants on Earth rely on fungi to supply them w/crucial nutrients…evidence is increasingly pointing to the key role fungi play in helping maintain a stable climate

So proud to see Underground Explorers Anna Ralaiveloarisoa, Joyce Jefwa, and Nourou Yorou featured in this story by @whitneybauck.bsky.social in @theguardian.com about the scientists helping move fungal conservation forward across Africa. 🔗 buff.ly/mB4ei2O

Nourou Yorou, a mycologist and director of the Benin Agency for Science and Innovation, said: “What an exciting time: from almost nothing 20 years ago, fungal conservation has evolved from a little-known field into a dynamic global movement." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

—“fungi are some of the most important things in the world”, says Anna Ralaiveloarisoa, a Malagasy scientist. “They feed 90% of terrestrial plants. Without them, there is no life on the Earth.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Without them there is no life on Earth’: why interest in #fungi conservation is mushrooming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Really great to see conservation efforts expanding to include fungi 👏🏽👏🏽 The article reminded me of this really interesting episode of "What on Earth" from CBC (also available as a podcast) #climate #science #conservation #fungi

Fungi make so much of life on earth possible—but are too often left out of conservation. That's slowly starting to change. As it does, a cohort of mycologists across Africa are pioneering the study and conservation of fungi in their home countries. My latest: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paying close attention to global democracy movements helps us understand how things can change. It also grants us emotional entry into this profoundly global work. There are models, new ones every day, for stepping off the path of autocracy.

Green-Wood really is a New York City treasure www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

@grist.org's Kate Yoder is always worth reading. Really fascinating story on those convinced climate change will lead to very imminent societal collapse: grist.org/culture/jem-...

So @mayor.nyc.gov finally addressed his (so far) broken promise to fund our NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget in this interview. www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi... - Thank you to Jay (who I don't know!) for asking this question.

This story is WILD. An orphanage in Malawi where kids were being groomed to become wildlife traffickers, an ivory kingpin who bribed his way out of jail, and so much more www.economist.com/1843/2025/10...

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

A study in September by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank, warned that without a reversal, the cuts to science could shrink the U.S. economy by nearly $1 trillion over 10 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

“I have found no one, Republican or Democrat, who wants a wall in the Big Bend,” Patterson said. “I almost wanna find somebody so I can talk to ‘em. But I can’t.” Great reporting on bipartisan pushback against border wall running through Big Bend www.publicdomain.media/p/big-bend-w...

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

Some happy news: I've been named an Environmental Research Fellow at Green-Wood Cemetery! This fellowship will allow my collaborator and I to expand the community science project we created to study soil fungi biodiversity in urban settings. More here: whitneybauck.substack.com/p/greenwood-...

People panned the climate TV show Extrapolations but at least once a quarter I see headline reminding me how smart and prescient that show was

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After visiting glaciers in Iceland a few years ago I kept looking for ways to write about them. Maybe I still will someday, but in the meantime, really glad this @grist.org piece exists grist.org/science/on-t...

This is SO cool to me — some people in Ecuador recently found a spider that has evolved to *look* like it's been infected and killed by a fungus, even when it is still very much alive and not infected: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/s...

Wikipedia bans AI-generated text entries because they often violate Wikipedia's core content policies. Those policies are "neutral point of view," "verifiability" and "no original research."

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

A new International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment of the lifecycle emissions of coal vs LNG shows that LNG only offers a pitiful reduction in emissions compared to coal Gas talking points present themselves as a 'climate solution', but they're a climate cause www.iea.org/reports/asse...

Not trying to be smug because I know this choice is not really possible in many parts of the country based on infrastructure but: I truly sincerely love not owning a car

I love my public library and I love getting to hear from the authors who have shaped me there (cc @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @anandwrites.bsky.social)

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.