For 6 years, Boston and FEMA have been working on a plan to protect the Fort Point neighborhood from flooding. Now, FEMA has rejected the grant application, blaming Boston, saying the city failed to send the right documents. Are they being gaslit? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...

New proposal would allow sewage and rainwater to be released into the Charles in perpetuity. It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...

“For hundreds of years we’ve been bending water to our will,” my colleague @shankman.bsky.social told me for today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point about the threat that flooding poses to Massachusetts. Now “the water is pushing back.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...

The floods are coming; the floods are here. I spoke with @ianprasad.bsky.social for today's Starting Point newsletter about a new project from @bostonglobe.com, "When the floods come," that's out today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...

The numbers here are insane. A potential for three feet of rain. 165 mph winds. 10-12 feet of storm surge. And millions of people in harm's way. Just unfathomably scary. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...

For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year. #Melissa

Journalism is great but if anyone wants to team up and do jewel heists lmk. (Don't tell the cops I said this)

Pleased to contribute data analysis and graphics to this Nicholas Kusnetz story for @insideclimatenews.org on the coal-fired power plant fleet it has helped build and finance beyond its own borders — notably in Indonesia. insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...

Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞 This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago

The entire city of Kotzebue, Alaska, is being evacuated for potential record coastal flooding. Kotzebue is the "hub" community for northwest Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social

In the midst of an unbearably shitty series of events, my family was faced with a choice: hunker down, or lean into the chaos. We chose chaos, and her name is Gigi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

As firings, delays in funding, and threats to eliminate the FEMA have erupted over the last several months, the director of the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency said he has been cautioning his staff and Governor Dan McKee to remain steady despite the political noise in Washington, D.C.

I spent some time with @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about solar energy and walked away with a feeling that I almost had forgotten about: hope. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

The saga of Massachusetts v third party competitive suppliers continues, this time featuring some questionable mailers, rates that just keep rising, and a proposed $5 million fine. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...

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...

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

speaking of labor ... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/s...

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.

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Hey scientists, especially those who work in the Gulf of Maine ... any thoughts on this crab? I've been hanging with some oyster farmers for a story and they say they keep catching green crabs with blue claws like this one. They're wondering: Could these be hybrids?

Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes. In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so. 1/

Not great! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/15/s...

huge milestone to be set this year - in China, more EVs will be sold than gas-only cars in 2025 “International automakers without competitive EV models are struggling to compete in China and are being squeezed out of the market as electrification takes over.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

It was just the latest in a "tsunami of bad things," solar developer Greg King told me. He's been working on an innovative project to bring solar to EJ neighborhoods. A year ago, his dream seemed achievable. Now, with the cancellation of Solar for All, the future's not so clear.

A little good news: So far Leo is turning out to be just as much, if not more, of a climate pope as Francis www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

This, by Globe photographer Erin Clark, makes me feel like I'm doing "being an adult" wrong. apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/maga...

We were just up in Canada and this is what closed the bread bag. Kiiiinda feels like a no-brainer, no?

This one's for the gardeners www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/25/s...

The juxtaposition of these two stories (and their framing) is really something.

Happy Birthday #EuniceFoote! 🎂 She would be 206 years old today!

As more headlines keep coming on flash floods and extreme weather, Gov. Healey proposes a $3B bond bill for climate readiness. There's money for infrastructure like culverts and sea walls, and even a new requirement for flood risk disclosures (which MA was lagging on ...) But is it enough?

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

"We will treat climate change as what it is: not an existential crisis but a real, physical phenomenon that is a by-product of progress ... I am willing to take the modest negative trade-off for this legacy of human advancement." - Energy Sec. Wright in Economist www.texastribune.org/2025/07/13/t...

if it feels swampier than it used to be ... that's cause it is.

Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

New for @grist.org: a fossil fuel consultant became a Louisiana lawmaker (on a fossil-fuel-funded campaign). Now, with an assist from the lobby group ALEC, the state of Louisiana legally defines gas as “green energy.” grist.org/language/lou...

We know intense rainfall events are increasing in New England and that our mitigation and preparedness efforts are not keeping up. It's one of the reasons I advocate so strongly for greater state and local investment in emergency management. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/s...

2nd possible heatwave in Boston unfolding. Dew points in the 70s make it feel closer to 100° on Monday & very muggy. Tuesday may return to the 90s. Take breaks if outdoors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/07/m... #mawx #nhwx #vtwx #ctwx #riwx #mewx #boston #NewEngland @bostonglobe.com

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Climate data highlights from this month: ⚠️ Arctic ice extent lowest on record for time of year: bsky.app/profile/zack... ⚠️ New ocean heat content record: bsky.app/profile/zack... ⚠️ Temperatures over land record high (Jan-May): bsky.app/profile/zack... ⚠️ New CO₂ record high: bsky.app/profile/zack...

In the latest in our voter vibes series, health care is a concern across the political spectrum but there are differing opinions over Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill.” W/ Brian MacQuarrie, @shankman.bsky.social & @fitzprov.bsky.social.

“When we stop protecting natural lands, we lose clean air, flood protection, and the ability to slow climate change." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/27/s...

I caught up with a few emergency dept physicians as they were coming off their shifts this week ... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/s...

*NEW MONTHLY RECORD* Boston has moved up to 101F, the hottest June day ever recorded in the city (since at least 1872). #wbz

Nantucket has a PFAS problem. It's near the airport. In private wells near a fire station downtown. By the landfill on the west side of the island. And some of the levels are just staggeringly high (4,170 ppt!) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/s...

For a timeline cleanse ... these photos and this column by Stan Grossfeld are a meditation on the good out there. I think I felt my heart rate slow and breathing relax as I read it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/19/m...