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.

The immediate deaths in Iran should, of course, be uppermost in our minds and outrage. But this level of emissions is also death - albeit slower and less predictable.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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Ludwig & Ryan met at USC film school. Would a Black kid from Oakland even be admitted into the program today? And would a Swede even want to come to this country for training?

Not normally an Oscars head but if One Battle After Another wins more awards than Sinners I’m gonna fight someone

Studying complex diseases like cancer is tricky, because gathering data on humans w/o violating privacy is tricky. But gathering data on pets is WAY easier. What if we could use pet genomic data to study cancer? I wrote about the people doing exactly that: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/24/1...

Ok peel-and-stick solar panels are a cool idea energy.mit.edu/news/active-...

Imagine if anthropologists visited a remote village with no grocery store and one restaurant that only served hamburgers and then concluded based on their observations that the villagers prefer hamburgers. That's essentially the discourse surrounding Americans and their relationship to cars.

Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

"In the grand succession of life after a wildfire, the first beings to appear are neither plants nor animals, but fungi." Fungi as natural "first responders" in the wake of wildfires, by @hannahthomasy.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/how-fire-fun...

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

SO fascinated by these yearly salaries, especially for writers. Author w/ 1 NYT bestseller: $49,000 Fashion Substacker: $275,300 Ghostwriter: $164,768 Seasoned journalist: $500,000 (literal lol at that last one bc in what world) nymag.com/intelligence...

This is FASCINATING. I feel like the closest thing we have in the US is like, Dungeons and Dragons/escape rooms/immersive theater? None of which really get close to this? www.sixthtone.com/news/1018252

Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu graces the cover of Teen Vogue.

“Art not only provides crucial information, but sometimes it also can point to alternative futures. I think that’s one role that artists have, the critical role of imagining otherwise.” I wrote about labor-focused artist Tabitha Arnold for @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

With protesters calling for an eviction moratorium at Minneapolis City Hall this morning (to quote the banners): “We fought ICE to keep our neighbors here”; “now we’re fighting to keep ‘em in their homes.”

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The push is being led by Twin Cities Tenants, which is pledging to withhold rent starting March 1. A rent strike of that size would be the largest such action in a century & would trigger a roughly $15M economic disruption, according to the group. #strike

Winning CCNow awards has been such an encouragement to me — and encouragement is something I know any journalist on this beat could use right now. Give it a shot; apply! (And here's my winning story from last year, if you want to take a peek) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Saw “My Father’s Shadow” with a talkback featuring director Akinola Davies Jr. afterward and was pretty floored. What a stunner of a film—hard to believe this is his first (!) as a director.

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

"Fungal gummies’ core sell might be toward our impulse to domesticate wild things, to tame the untameable for personal profit." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/m...?

the US coal mining industry employees ~50k people. For some perspective, The Gap has about 82,000 employees

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal. I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I reflexively flinched at this title but glad I clicked and read it - there are a whole bunch of good criticisms in here and I have probably been complicit in at least a few of these problems in my time

making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

what we're cutting: health care food stamps preschool environmental protections international aid scientific research what we're buying:

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. boltsmag.org/virginia-spa...

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

Climate reporters are some of the kindest, most selfless, and most hardworking people around. We need MORE of their work, not less. I'm grateful to everyone who has read and subscribed to support any kind of climate coverage over the years, ours or another newsroom's. Thanks for not turning away.

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