Scoop: CarbonCapture Inc. has moved its 2,000-ton direct air capture project from the US to Canada, compelled by shifting political winds and a better policy environment in the north, CEO Adrian Corless told me: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heatmap's @emilypont.bsky.social obtained the latest list of grants canceled by the Department of Energy — which, contrary to initial impressions, will hit a fair handful of projects in red states. Read the full story:

Sperm-injecting robots.

Happy 25th birthday of Kid A to all those who celebrate (me) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnX...

🧪New from me for @nature.com: Nearly every model organism used in research has it's own database, called a MOD. These resources underpin decades of discovery, but they're collectively struggling amid funding cuts. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

Happy National Black Dog Day to this 'lil rascal.

I chatted with Kate Lindsay over at Embedded about how I use TikTok to share my reporting 🤳 embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...

I'd love to get 35 new free subscribers (then 200 more, but start small) to Gravity Is Gone, with my independent reporting and writing on science, politics, and policy. I got laid off a month ago, trying to build this, lfg! www.gravityisgone.com I published two things just yesterday; the first:

The case ... “squarely presents the issue whether noncitizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The court answers this constitutional question unequivocally, ‘Yes, they do.’"

seared my brain on this 6,500 word piece to write you a semi coherent thread into the mind of a billionaire obsessed with the antichrist (and people who, in my opinion, have way too much money, paranoia, and time while others just want to put food on the table)

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

There are some absolutely wild quotes in this piece from comedians defending their decisions.

Friendly reminder that I block people who post some variant of "it won't matter because nothing matters" on sight. Not even because they're wrong, but because I find this habit of saying the most tedious and predictable thing as if that makes you an edgy truth teller incredibly grating.

I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.

Our 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list is coming next week, y'all!: mailchi.mp/technologyre...

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Based on my back-of-the-envelope math, this will consume roughly a crapload of water & electricity.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Many thanks to @agu.org for recognizing my piece on sea level rise for @newyorker.com with this year's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism - features. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... www.agu.org/honors/sulli...

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Microsoft’s new deal with Stegra will help the tech giant clean up the actual steel coils it uses for its European data center buildout, and let it claim green credentials for infrastructure built elsewhere.

If you get the urgency of planning for escalating climate risks in smart and engaged ways, this 30-day workshop is for you. Check it out: alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-person...

"The official’s directive ... goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism ... the latest instance of the Justice Department moving against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies."

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

What was it like when the DOGE overlords infiltrated the government? “For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking.” 🙃

"... Zeldin intends to sign off next week on the final policy and legal justifications for repealing the so-called endangerment finding and Biden-era climate rules for cars and trucks... before agency staff have time to sift through all public comments...." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I gave @dwallacewells.bsky.social a hard time for still being on Twitter (I think my exact words were: “Don’t you miss us?”) and told him that Bluesky is actually a place. Give him a follow.

Should we power airplanes with food crops? Check out our new video, part of @worldresources.bsky.social’s Stories to Watch 2025 series, where I break down how crop-based biofuels are on the front line of the discussion about alternative aviation fuels and what gets to count as “sustainable.”

Bill Gates is urging Congress to renew America’s commitment to foreign aid, warning that funding cuts risk reversing decades of progress in global health. trib.al/wUnAhlk

They've lost the 9yos

Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.

This is good stuff and worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Another case of “techno-optimist offsets”: i.e. it’s fine for AI to drive up emissions today cause it’ll fix everything in the future.

climate change is mostly a people and policy problem. see @jtemple.bsky.social here:

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

But for a mere 10% stake in the J&J spinoff that sells Tylenol, the Trump admin will happily resort to blaming vaccines.

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

Don't really like this headline (sorry, flipping the table on you, scientists!) but interesting op-ed from @davidkeith.bsky.social & @hausfath.bsky.social

Accidentally left my backyard gate unlocked and, instead of running off, Moxie politely knocked (nose booped) the back door until I let her inside.

Climate Action Tracker has downgraded the US's climate action under Trump from insufficient to critically insufficient, "in the most significant rollback of policies the project has ever analysed."

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the employees said."

It’s a whole lot. Take care of each other.

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

As it happens, I've got a carbon removal piece coming out next week packed with "abundant, florid and enervating detail." Stay tuned!