Dr. Jane Goodall came to California in April to help launch the Sea Otter Fund, a campaign to restore the furry climate warriors to their West Coast range. My story on that was published today. In today's newsletter I wrote about Goodall's support of sea otters. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

New: An ambitious plan aims to restore imperiled sea otters to their historic range on the US West Coast. The playful predators are climate warriors, reviving coastal ecosystems and keeping healthy carbon-sequestering kelp forests that nurture fisheries. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A double news update after a summer respite from social media: 1) I’ve joined @bloomberg.com to report on China & climate! 2) Just in time for China’s new climate targets, announced by Xi today. I’m thrilled to cover this special beat—and to be diving right in: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Given ~~gestures at everything~~ now is a great time to support your local (or not local) worker owned journalism outlet. Throw the money you just pulled from WaPo et al at a media coop! If you're in the Bay Area (or care about it) COYOTE Media just launched:

Breaking: As climate impacts multiply, a landmark UN treaty to protect ocean life will go into effect in January. The high seas biodiversity treaty ratified Friday allows for marine protected areas in international waters, among other things. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials. Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"We need a transition between an area that is going to burn, and that we can let burn, but not in a way that is catastrophic." @jeva.bsky.social speaks to Dan Efseaff, the restoration ecologist building a wildfire buffer in Paradise, CA:

What does “safe” really mean after a wildfire? You might first think of the homes that have been destroyed, but there’s another category of victims that doesn’t often get much attention. Months after the LA fires, they're still trying to get answers. For @bloomberg.com (+ my first Bluesky post!):

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

“For us, it was quite clear that climate change does impact our basic human rights." For the NYT Magazine's climate issue, I wrote about a group of law students from the South Pacific whose clarity and tenacity helped reshape international law gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

Just dropped: ABC News' "Race to the Bottom" - a #DeepDive into #DeepSeaMining that’s anything but soothing. The new pirates are going for the #DeepSea.🌊🤿 #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

🚨Exclusive🚨 NASA has revoked facilities-and-systems access for Chinese citizens with US visas who work on its space programs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Published a story with @rjnskl.bsky.social last week on the future of the ocean under growing human pressures -- and the future of cultures and economies built on the ocean and coastlines. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science. I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

New: In California, sellers of older homes in high-risk wildfire areas must now discuss to buyers their dwellings' susceptibility to fire and what they've done to fix those vulnerabilities. Will it encourage homeowners to harden houses against wildfire? Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump's ex-FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton speaks out against push to abolish the agency. “I cannot get behind this position that abolishing FEMA is the answer,” Hamilton said on Disaster Tough podcast, calling such a move "an extreme risk" to the American people. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🔥 A record summer of blazes in Europe shows how governments and local communities can’t keep up with brutal fire conditions exacerbated by climate change story via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Glaciers in Central Asia have long managed to withstand rising temperatures and changing weather patterns. But now, the outlook is worsening. My latest for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The awkward reality is that nobody knows anymore whether FEMA as it currently exists will be around by the end of the year. But there’s another elephant in the room: The agency was breaking long before Trump. Tag-team w/@leslieatlarge.bsky.social‬. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This summer, I visited Glen Kenny's heat lab in Ottawa to see where he -- and many others -- repeatedly put their bodies on the line to better understand how high heat can damage the human body and how to keep people safe. Full story @bloomberg.com with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New: Some of the world's best chefs are switching to induction for reasons that are nothing to do with climate and everything to do with how they run their professional kitchens. Featuring some (hopefully) mouthwatering dish descriptions - I'm no food critic but I did my best! Gift link:

New: After the LA firestorms, Berkeley was determined not to let the heavily-vegetated Berkeley Hills burn in the next climate-driven urban conflagration. City leaders moved quickly to mandate wildfire protections the state failed to implement for years. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: US battery makers will likely face a major surplus in manufacturing capacity by 2030, per BloombergNEF's latest forecast, as the Trump administration's policy changes suppress demand. Read on for free via @bloomberg.com (🎁🔗 valid for 7️⃣ days) www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #batteries

Summer commutes in NYC can be miserable - 108F on the platform at City Hall w/ humidity. But New Yorkers are lucky compared to London, where subway cars lack AC + get hotter than city streets. With reporting from 3 continents: (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Extreme heat is taking a toll on the US’s aging bridges. Here comes the "bridge doctors" who enlist AI and automation to detect hidden dangers before it's too late. My latest for @bloomberg.com (read on for free for 7 days) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #infrastructureresilience #climatetech

NEW: An anti-offshore wind group is targeting a Brown researcher who studies climate obstruction. It's not the first time they've done it, but there's a new twist: They're threatening to go to the Trump administration unless the university retracts the work

🏖️NEW: Overtourism and climate change have created a dangerous feedback loop that endangers Southern Europe’s tourism industry www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The U.S. Forest Service has spent decades blocking efforts to better protect its wildfire fighters, sending crews into smoke without masks or warnings about the health risks, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4mm9oMr

MY LATEST is all about why asking companies nicely to remove their artificial food dyes doesn't work. Just look at Mars -- which didn't remove anything and still got government applause. (gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Deadly wildfires raged on Wednesday in Europe, where thousands of firefighters struggled to beat back flames fed by high winds and scorching heat. The blazes, which were burning in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Montenegro and Albania, have killed at least six people and injured dozens. nyti.ms/415eJz5

A belated thanks to ABC (Australia)'s The Radio National Hour and host Fran Kelly for having me on to discuss deep sea mining, the International Seabed Authority and the Trump administration's move to unilaterally mine international waters for critical minerals. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

China seems to be the only bipartisan issue left. I've seen executives pitch deep-sea mining to Dems and GOP on Capitol Hill as a way to outcompete China. But I hope those same lawmakers read my reporting today. Trump's new deep-sea mining push is actually pushing our allies closer to China.👇

New: My investigation into why a 2020 California law mandating ember-resistant zones around homes in wildfire areas hasn't been implemented. As climate threats accelerate, what aesthetic price are Californians prepared to pay to protect their communities? Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The US and China are vying for influence over deep sea mining in the Cook Islands. By ‪@jonherskovitz.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My friend Alec is missing. Please share this widely incase it reachers any hikers who have seen him over the past 5 days during his solo hike in a Norwegian national park.

Neil Jacobs - the weather scientist who was in charge at NOAA during "Sharpiegate" - is poised to come back. “I’m hopeful that he’s learned how to fight within the political system," one former NOAA chief said, "because he is going to have to fight." / 1 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lee Zeldin said repealing the endangerment finding would “end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.” But the government's own research shows climate-fueled extreme weather is *already* causing $150 billion annually in losses for the US

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

Breaking: The International Seabed Authority, the UN-affiliated organization with jurisdiction over the global seabed, has taken a tentative step to respond to Trump’s fast-tracking of deep-sea mining for critical minerals in international waters. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: My deep dive into a Trump-triggered deep-sea mining gold rush and the technological and geopolitical obstacles US-licensed seabed mining companies face in extracting EV battery metals from biodiverse ecosystems in global waters under international jurisdiction. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Speaking about this moment with Trump in the White House pulling back on climate action as the planet gets warmer, Jane Fonda said at the Bloomberg Green Seattle conference on Monday: "We have to do something really brave here. This is worth saving.” Story @bloomberg.com with gift link:

TODAY: What's the future of US solar, wind and EV projects under Trump's tax law? Ahead of #BloombergGreen Seattle, @akshatrathi.bsky.social, @michellema.bsky.social, @arinatter.bsky.social and @mchediak.bsky.social will answer your questions. 🎧 Tune in to our Live Q&A at 1pm EDT: bit.ly/44tYaPx

New: To protect your home from floods and fire, you can raise the house out of harm’s way or establish an ember-resistance zone around the dwelling. But how do you safeguard your home against increasingly deadly and frequent heat waves? Here's some tips. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m. on June 28. Some time before 11 p.m., Aguilar dropped dead in her apartment. Free read via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Central Texas areas pummeled by recent storms have long earned the reputation as the “Flash Flood Alley.” Yet only a fraction of homeowners there have flood #insurance. Here's why. My latest for @bloomberg.com w @eroston.bsky.social and Kyle Stock #Texasflood www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BOEM has rolled out policy changes to fast-track deep-sea mining in U.S. waters — and companies like Impossible Metals, Wetstone, Odyssey Marine Exploration and Transocean are now actively engaging with the agency. @mongabay.com @pulitzercenter.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/07/u-s-...

What happens when soot falls on snow and ice? As wildfires burn across Canada and beyond, understanding their full impact on the Arctic -- a critical shield against global warming -- is essential. Heat Week series by @bloomberg.com starts w/Black Carbon. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...