In the last couple weeks, we've seen a remarkable number of food recalls due to salmonella contamination. So many, in fact, that it's worth our time to take a deeper look at some of the reasons why. 1/10

“There's a lot of pesticides in there. Sometimes at levels that are not necessarily great for bees.” Scott McArt, entomologist at Cornell University, found that bees from last year's mass die-off were highly contaminated with low levels of pesticides. @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

Honeybee colonies collapsed in 2024/2025. It was the nation’s worst-ever mass honeybee die-off. The USDA says the bees died from viruses spread by parasitic mites. But beekeepers told me they disagree for a story in @sierramagazine.bsky.social www.sierraclub.org/sierra/where...

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost? My latest on #deepseamining in Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Several scientists linked to Jeffrey Epstein are now facing consequences, reports @byng.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More researchers face consequences for their links to #Epstein. Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic park films, is no longer employed at Chapman University. See my story for Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Carbon capture can be an instrument to combat climate change, but it divides opinions, writes @byng.bsky.social: buff.ly/lAFMPCB

People tend to eat less meat and animal products, such as beef, pork, seafood and eggs, as well as fewer processed foods, when taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, according to new research. @byng.bsky.social reports:

Factory farm dust can spread E. coli and could have sparked a large food poisoning outbreak in 2018, a new study published in the Science of the Total Environment shows. @byng.bsky.social reports:

I wrote about how Trump's huge $100K fee hike for visas for foreign talent will impact researchers. Story in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you a #researcher or work at a #university that is affected by the #H-1B visa fee hike? Please consider talking to me for a story in @nature.com. For secure comms I'm on Signal: @ngreports.30. Please repost for reach.

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors. Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

World Health Organization Foundation’s growing ‘dark money’ problem raises conflict of interest concerns Via @byng.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/w...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

“Unlike shooting or bombing, if killing stops, the dying won’t stop. It’ll still continue for some time,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University. “Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.” wapo.st/4lj3yKB

Trump’s hatchet job on science will cost the US economy more than it will save, says analysis reported by @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/n...

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Cutting back on just a little bit of the meat you eat can make a big difference to water quality in rivers and streams across the US. A research paper in the journal Nature Food has the numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The latest strategy to Make American Healthy Again: cancel any oversight of the most dangerous pesticides that farmers use. civileats.com/2025/06/03/u...

"You're just not welcome." Scientists told me how they are grappling with the US plan to revoke Chinese student visas. Read more in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA to end work in nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion for deep space exploration. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

We are glad to see Pig-2-Bac getting some attention, but @sentientmedia.org's new article about it is quite similar to the one we published in March. Our original article (3/31/25): usrtk.org/factory-farm... Sentient’s version (5/22/25): sentientmedia.org/scientists-f... @dawnattride.bsky.social

The chemical lobby asked Trump admin to black out sites of high risk chemical plants. They greased their ask with $$$ for his inauguration fund. Guess what happend? www.levernews.com/the-governme...

Trump Ambassador to UK has big stake in big beef - set to benefit from US-UK trade deal. www.desmog.com/2025/05/15/d...

Meet the PR company behind the spin on Tyson's "climate smart" beef. Midan Marketing says you can "do the climate a solid" by eating Tyson's Brazen Beef. But beef will never be climate smart. Its #GHGs are just too high - 5 times that of other livestock. My latest for @usrighttoknow.bsky.social

The public relations campaign spinning Tyson’s brazen “climate-smart” beef claims Via @byng.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/factory-farm...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump has been president for 100 days—and he’s made a deliberate attempt to flood the system and exhaust the public. It can be hard for most people to keep up. That's by design. As a candidate, Trump said he'd lower prices. As president, here's what he's done 🧵

FDA Layoffs Will Hamper Efforts to cut antimicrobial overuse in farm animals. My new story for US Right to Know. “It seems less likely than ever that progress on this ticking time bomb will be made under the current administration.” #AMR #FDA #CVM #indsutrialfarming #antimicroibals

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

"This is a terrible, terrible thing to have happen," says Sarah Temkin, a gynecological oncologist on news that the Trump administration is killing a crucial decades long study on women's health. Story in @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

The US administration’s grant terminations, indirect-cost cap etc triggered a host of lawsuits: here’s a guide to what’s next @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pharmaceutical drug pollution changes behaviors in Atlantic salmon that are critical to survival, finds a new study in @science.org

Climate concerns crush plans for megafarm in UK www.theguardian.com/environment/....

And second unvaccinated child needlessly dies because of lack of vaccination.

Lame.

Among the fraud, waste, and abuse that the Trump Administration is allegedly digging out, will they overlook billions in tax breaks for oil and gas? insideclimatenews.org/news/2403202...

“I think it could get to thousands and thousands of cases.” The Texas measles outbreak spreads. Story in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another member of Congress thinks it's time for Schumer to pass the torch. #chuckchuck

“This measure was taken by the U.S. authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his political opinion on the policies of the Trump administration on research,” he added.

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

Is there any industry more coddled than commodity agriculture? They’re exempt from nearly every regulation, control both political parties, crush any bill that threatens their free rein to pollute, and still get taxpayers to bankroll the whole operation. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

"This is a wrecking ball assault on the science that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink from toxic chemicals and pollution." Trump admin plans to cut EPA science & research arm www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

This is open partisan political retribution. It is criminal and treasonous.

Why are egg prices still so high? Maybe because egg companies are illegally fixing prices. DoJ to investigate.

pollution from Smithfield & John Morrell is “enough to contaminate about 80 billion gallons of water beyond the safe drinking water standard for nitrate,” says Jones, author of The Swine Republic, an exposé of the science & politics of agriculture & pollution in Iowa. usrtk.org/factory-farm...

Blood, body parts and bacteria pollute wastewater from meatpacking plants. New rules could help clean it up. But legal experts worry that Trump's EPA may renege on a court order to finalize the rules. A new story from me for @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/factory-farm...

Blood, body parts and bacteria pollute wastewater from meatpacking plants. New rules could help clean it up. Via @byng.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/factory-farm...

How did we get here with bird flu? Highly concentrated, industrialized animal agriculture. “Concentration may lead to efficiencies, but it also comes with brittleness. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.”

Countries failing to meet key biodiversity target of protecting 30% of land and sea www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-mor...