Eel trafficking is the world’s most sophisticated wildlife crime. Our @theguardian.com @journalismfund.bsky.social investigation digs into why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking fail + how some hope to save the endangered fish: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a really great story about how the divisiveness of national politics are seeping into rural areas. In my small NY hometown, I've seen a similar shift in the past decade, where groups - who may even have the same local interests - are polarized by the national conversation.

Cue the celebratory fireworks - the world’s first-ever open ocean conservation framework passed. Learn more about what the High Seas Treaty means here: open.substack.com/pub/taltysoc...

My new policy when someone complains about “the media” is to ask them if they subscribe to any media outlets. News isn’t free.

Phenomenal investigation that found Europe is loosing its green spaces at an unprecedented rate. Funded by @journalismfund.bsky.social, journalists from 41 outlets used GIS mapping to track farmland, open spaces + forests. Here are @wyborcza.pl insights: biqdata.wyborcza.pl/biqdata/7,15...

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My first @asjahq.bsky.social 🥳big thank you to @civileats.com and @pulitzercenter.bsky.social for commissioning a deep dive into the American kelp industry. Read the series here: civileats.com/2024/06/27/o...

Can small communities across Americe handle data centers’ water requirements? Great reporting in this @nytimes.com story by Eli Tan: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

@davidfickling.bsky.social: "In December, the capacity of China’s wind and solar plants overtook that of its fossil fuel generators for the first time. Peak power from the 1.08 terawatts of solar installed at the end of May would be equivalent to that provided by a THOUSAND nuclear reactors" 🌞🌞

Gosh, I love New York.

Cruising on the Wisła River in Warsaw, Poland. One bank is left wild to support the local ecosystem; it is the only river through a European capital that still has a wild bank.

A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world's seas? - @alexandratalty.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It was great moderating CARDS ON THE TABLE at #UNOC3 for Ocean and Climate Platform. We discussed gaps in global financing for rural maritime communities, why bilateral agreements take soooo long and if they can really work. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social

I landed in Nice, France for #UNOC3 and it looks like French President Emmanuel Macron beat me here. It’ll be interesting to hear his remarks today at the third United Nations Ocean Conference as pressure mounts for France to protect its seas, especially Gulf of Lion, against bottom trawling.

Saj or manaeesh is the one food I miss the most from Lebanon. And it has been nearly impossible to make at home without the right equipment... Until now! Genius idea for an at-home saj kit by Laetita Jbeily. www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Gosh 😍obsessed with the colors here

How does a shark bite lead to ocean conservation? Does Miami have coral reefs? What is the coolest, and most flamboyant, marine animal? Answer all these questions in my first-ever Substack - TALTY’S OCEAN DISPATCH - featuring the illustrious Dr. Shireen Rahimi. open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

"Climeworks cannot yet offset its own carbon footprint." Another great carbon investigation by @heimildin.bsky.social: heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

"A booming global trade in millions of small fish, caught to feed bigger farmed fish abroad, has drained Senegal’s waters of a food source the country’s population relies on." Phenomenal reporting for this @theguardian.com story: www.theguardian.com/environment/... @brigitte-whl.bsky.social

Love a good climate joke 😂

Quick trip to Shanghai and a run on the Bund. Is this one of the best skylines in the world?

Great story by @alexandratalty.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com about an Ann Arbor Institution: Argus Farm Stop What if a Grocery Store Was More Like a Farmers’ Market? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...

My latest for the @nytimes.com ft Ann Arbor’s Argus Farm Stop, a new model of grocery store that aims to change how Americans can access fresh food: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...

Horseing around outside of Beijing, China. On a wind farm!

I love the motivation of an upcoming Libby return date to burn through an audiobook.

Incredible reporting in this @propublica.org series:

Cuts to NOAA's Great Lakes offices right before the toxic harmful algal bloom season could affect drinking water across the Midwest. Great reporting by @annaleighclark.bsky.social for @propublica.org in this story: www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

Big thank you to #FishnBits podcast🎧💚 for having me as a guest to discuss my @civileats.com KELP series. We talked about America’s kelp boom, what it will take for seaweed to be an oil alternative in industries like plastics/fuel , AND… is this a seaweed winter?! open.spotify.com/episode/2shn...

Another YIKES climate moment

Climate change is effecting America's National Parks even more than less extreme environments. Can the federal employees fight back or have President Trump's cuts rolled back too much? Great reporting by Twilight Greenway for @gristnews.bsky.social: grist.org/politics/tru...

Thanks to University of Oklahoma for inviting me to share about science journalism and seaweed! While I was there I conducted a poll of college students and it turns out 100% of them are getting news via scrolling social media.

Sharing my @civileats.com investigation: 🌿KELP’S 🌿TANGLED LINES at 🌊🪸THE OCEAN STORIES SYMPOSIUM 🌊🪸 at @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social

I swam at San Francisco’s illustrious Dolphin Club and with bay temps of 56 F/13C, it was BRISK! 😝

Thank you so much to SABEW for the honorable mention!!

Sometimes we need good news:

Reporting deadline = time to start the refrigerator de-cluttering project.

Gorgeous new short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in this week's @newyorker.com:

The classic American B. E. L. T. breakfast, as seen in Lotnisko Chopina Warszawa airport.

Despite the Paris Agreement, global emissions continue to rise:

Kelp forests are a keystone species in the ocean and one of the best buffers against climate change. But they often aren’t included in conservation frameworks, unlike corals or mangroves. My first story for @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/the-...

Oh you don’t have a valentine for Valentine’s Day? Lots of people don’t have a shark for Shark Week.

Nothing makes me feel 36 like typing in “Taylor Swift Classics” to Spotify.

As climate change makes the ocean more acidic, oyster hatcheries across America come up with solutions. But what will save marine life? My latest for @thefishsite.bsky.social: thefishsite.com/articles/the...

This is a really great story on Indigenous management, science and kelp ecosystems.... but also - and this cannot be underestimated - the OTTER PHOTOS:

Led by the Haida Nation in Western Canada, sea otters make their return in an effort to save the regions' dwindling kelp forest. Beautiful Canadian Geographic story by Brad Badelt about urchins, sea otters and kelp forests: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...