My latest Emergence Magazine essay was a longreads pick a couple weeks ago!!!

A new grant-funded project pairs the Warren Health Equity Zone with Brown University climate change writers Kate Schapira & Elizabeth Rush (an IBES Fellow), as well as students from Brown, to support residents as they contend with a changing environment. eastbayri.com/stories/concer…

Pleased as punch that THE QUICKENING is reviewed alongside Camille Dungy's brilliant book, SOIL, in this knock-out essay for The New York Review of Books by Emily Raboteau. Dear Jonathan F, for your information, there is A New Environmental Canon...nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Friends, I've had a good run on Twitter & I think I am done. I'm honored to be included in NPR's 'Books We Love of 2023' round up alongside so many of you whose I so admire including, Dr. Amy Brady, Peggy O. Heffington, Jeff Goodell, John Valliant, Lydia Kiesling, Jake Bittle & etc!

Glacial motion and breakup of #Thwaites Glacier in #Antarctica .

#Radar images taken by Copernicus EU #Sentinel1 since June 2017.

Data processed in Sentinel Hub

Sisters of SAR 😉

#Glacier #SAR

😝 I'm so excited to be the new senior features editor @cosmopolitan. Freelancers, send me pitches! I want to be fascinated, shocked, delighted, enraged in around 3K to 5K words. Pay is $1.50-$2/word. nicole [dot] pasulka [at] hearst [dot] com. Let's gooooo!

I can't wait to chat about climate change literature with this brilliant cast of characters for National Book Critics Circle! Extra special thanks to Christopher Lancette for organizing. Please register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist….

I am HONORED that the brilliant mind of Mary Louise Pratt turned her attention to 'Rising' and Tomson Highway's 'Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions' to write about navigating great loss through language. Check it out: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

Paid writing/art residency in an old lighthouse on an island in NY Sound! This one is run by really stellar people. Applications not open but please bookmark for later: lighthouseworks.us/fellowship

BREAKING.

Mass direct actions are shutting down construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at two locations. People have swarmed both sites, and a total of four people have locked-down to construction equipment. #NoMVP

Like I said: from this moment forth I only wear overalls. I was not joking about that:) Also, this was a really invigorating conversation, thanks Andy, for inviting me into the bubble.

Tonight I am doing a free event in the Twin Cities at the fabulous Mill City Museum and The Great Northern on collective storytelling in literature and activism.

Please register and come out! I'd love to see all you fabulous mini-apple people.

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Do you want to talk about pitching book reviews? Are you a National Book Critics Circle member? If so, join Adam Dalva, Joanna Scutts, Chelsea Leu, and me to demystify the work. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Today, @pontifex released Laudato Deum, an update on the 2015 encyclical. It's not so much a breath of fresh air as it is a bucket of ice water, straight to the face of those who are standing in the way of and delaying climate progress. Here are a few highlights:

This is why climate change is not 'linear' — why it's not a slope, but a series of cliffs.

NYC infrastructure is designed to handle about 1.75 in of rain per hour.

Today's rain averaged about 2 in.

Only 1/4 inch, that tiny increment, overwhelmed most of the system.

One of the great joys of releasing this book into the wild has been conversing with writers I SO admire about our shared passions. Emily Raboteau & I spoke about mothering through planetary change
& crossing the Drake Passage for Orion Magazine here: orionmagazine.org/article/elizab…

This is one of those essays I think about often. What does it mean to need solitude the way I need solitude? What am I running from and toward? The ever authentic Lulu Miller weighs in...

I don't think any person alive really knows what Antarctica's missing sea ice portends. Still we can listen: the ice is asking us to change, fundamentally, how we live now, now, now. All the love we have can remain & grow but the way we manifest it in our lives must evolve.