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"What lessons might fungi offer us about when to hide and when to burst forth? My latest, for @orionmagazine.bsky.social & @thefern.org. #Climatechange #climatecrisis #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #Oregon #PacificNorthwest orionmagazine.org/article/out-...

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Do you double check your receipt when you buy groceries? Maybe you should. Kroger stores in multiple states show a pattern of listing expired sale prices on the shelves and then ringing up regular prices at checkout, an investigation by the Guardian US, @thefern.org and @consumerreports.org ‬found.

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Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.

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Great to see journalist #DavidAbel's new #documentary on Michael Packard, the #CapeCod man momentarily scooped up in the mouth of a humpback whale. More than that moment, it's a portrait of place, a vanishing way of life, poverty & survival. Thanks to Tales of Cape Cod for the showing. #InTheWhale

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Science & medicine? Cut, cut, cut. Thanks @carlzimmer.com for the week’s dire roundup.

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🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"#1: Because oranges. Because a single slice held to the light is magic and sometimes the scene in the window of its cathedral is a fallow field on fire with dawn..." 🙏🏼 @nickolebrown.bsky.social for reminding us of reasons to #stay. @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/one-...

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A 50% cut to science funding (which is close to what Trump is proposing for NIH) would result in huge negative long-term economic outcomes: 7.6% cut in GDP 8.6% cut in federal revenues *equivalents of making the average American $10,000 poorer

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Join me tonight for a Brookline Bird Club hybrid talk at Harvard as I share stories & photographs from 20 yrs of covering the South Asian vulture crisis, collapse and return. #vultures #conservation #India #Nepal www.brooklinebirdclub.org/bbc-news/apr...

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I'll be giving a talk this Friday evening about South Asian vultures -- crisis & conservation. In person, for the #BrooklineBirdClubs, at @Harvard or online. All Welcome! #vultures #SouthAsia #India #Nepal #conservation #SAVE #birds www.brooklinebirdclub.org/bbc-news/apr...

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Happy #EarthDay! It can be done.... Spain hits first weekday of 100% renewable power on national grid www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

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Back to Cape Cod, where the shenanigans of wild turkeys offer a chance to consider democracy, climate & other catastrophes, on this Earth Day Eve. Also, I’m giving a talk Friday! #climate #turkeys #backyardbirds #politics #protest #journalism #climate #EarthDay meerasub.substack.com/p/every-day-...

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Enough of studying #renewableenergy from a desk. On the move across Spain, seeking solar & wind projects to see what I see.... @frontiersmedia.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #BC3 #FRONTIERSfellowship #Spain #sciencejournalism #cleanenergy #biodiversity

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The @sejorg.bsky.social, in partnership with @uprootproject.bsky.social, is offering travel stipends to help international #journalists in need to attend SEJ's 34th Annual Conference in Arizona. Deadline: Fri. March 7 at 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -5) $✍️$🗞️$ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Speak up for science! Ignorance is not bliss. The assault on scientific institutions, the people who are committed to knowledge and discovery, and the data sets that have been amassed over decades, will have ongoing global impacts, and not blissful ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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In late 2022, the world agreed to protect 30% of the planet for nature. Now, more than half the world’s countries have no plans to deliver on the target, according to analysis by Carbon Brief & The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Every Friday, the Nieman Storyboard newsletter (written by @markarms.bsky.social) features the best in narrative nonfiction, with insights on the craft of journalism and storytelling. Sign up to receive it: niemanstoryboard.org/about/subscr... #longreads #podcasts #documentaries #booksky

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What, exactly, are we #science #journalists up to? Great to pull back the curtain a little for the researchers of #BC3 & field their excellent questions, from how to handle uncertainty to whether to engage with, well, things like Bluesky @frontiersmedia.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #FRONTIERSFellow

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whole lotta shit out there. Some of it's real. Lots, not so much. Good reminder from @lizneeley.bsky.social

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oh, ffs.

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📣 Still time to apply for the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism!! A full year, paid, at @colorado.edu, for journos with 5+ yrs experience, any medium. Deadline March 1. @sejorg.bsky.social, @uprootproject.bsky.social, @sciencewriters.org, @nabjlaofficial.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Now’s the time! Submit your best #climate #journalism stories now! @coveringclimatenow.org

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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

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It took me a LONG time but I DID IT - #Greensky has been updated!! There are now more than 1,700 members feeding the main feed's content, through a keyword filter - please hit like on the feed here if you like it! bsky.app/profile/did:... And a new home for full info here: ketanjoshi.co/greensky/

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As reporters scramble to cover dizzying changes in climate and energy policy under the new Trump administration, @yessfun.bsky.social reminds us to work to connect the changing planet with changes felt by threatened communities. #SEJournalVoicesofEnvironmentalJustice www.sej.org/publications...

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What am I doing in Spain? ¡Aquí! @frontiersmedia.bsky.social #BC3

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Sentiments can be lost in translation, but also found. Latest Substack: meerasub.substack.com/p/out-of-order

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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

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putting this call out again: are you a climate or enviro scientist whose work has been paused due to the change in admin? is your job impacted by the IRA/BIL freeze? do you work in decarb and have concerns about your job stability? hit my line: [email protected] i’m on signal too, dm for info.

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Reminder! Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to apply to our upcoming writers' workshops! Join us this spring for generative sessions and to gather inspiration from fellow writers. Learn more and apply right here: https://orionmagazine.org/article/workshop-application-deadlines-approaching-fast/

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"Now, two decades later, instead of reading or meditating or hiking, I’m staring at my laptop, feeling cut from all sides." But, still, @laviniaspalding.bsky.social - super sis-in-law & scribe! - finds a way to repair, even if just for a moment.

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There's @katharinehayhoe.com on the cover page of the Climate/Environment section of @elpais.com! Reminding us that no one person or government can stop the fight against #climate change. And China? They installed more solar in the last yr than the US ever has.

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Oh the irony, says the author whose work was used without consent or compensation… www.theverge.com/news/601195/...

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Repeat after me: It's not too late. Here's my latest Substack, Step by Step, on crossing borders & tipping points. open.substack.com/pub/meerasub...

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An excellent @nytimes.com piece on our culpability in the imminent extinction of #rightwhales, by Parker Richards.

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This is, of course, the second calf that Tahlequah has lost and refused to forget. (And just one of far too many losses for her pod in recent years). I wrote about the short life of her first calf for the Lives They Lived issue a few years ago. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Will she or won't she steal the whale bone? In this lovely essay, by @devonfredericksen.bsky.social, that's not actually the question to be asking. #SwitchyardMagazine

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I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy. Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

submitted 156 days ago • 126 comments

Giving a kidney to a stranger? It can be called 'extraordinary altruism' and researcher Abigail Marsh has found a correlation with those who give and those who have a larger amygdala... and more empathy. fascinating.

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We are everywhere! Thanks for making this new #starterpack for women #environment #journalists, Antonia!

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Woo hoo! Excited to have my @NewYorker.com piece Consider the Vulture included in the global journalism True Story Award Shortlist 2025, along w/ English pieces from @theguardian.com, @harpers.bsky.social, @economist.com, @wired.com, @atavist.com & more. 🙏🎉

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Imagine the world where the solar panels stayed on the White House back in 1980....

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Important new study shows that the best way to power data centers is with solar microgrids! Also, 1.5 million Germans have hung solar panels off their balconies this year, and now Spaniards are copying them! Also, kids in Montana win huge climate fight! billmckibben.substack.com/p/three-smal...

submitted 167 days ago • 14 comments

eARTh & España. On art as solace and fuel, writing wisdom, and what I'm looking for as I head to Spain. Latest Substack, free & occasional.

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