U.S. issues travel warning for Israel -- #Israel is bracing for a worst-case scenario that U.S. officials believe could materialize w/in hours — a possibile direct attack on Israeli soil by #Iran  in retaliation for a strike 2 weeks ago that killed 7 Iranian military officers.…

The world's largest coral reef is suffering the worst bleaching and die-off ever recorded as Australia swelters and the world's oceans heat up. And grow more acidic.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

The rain stopped and Sun shined as we stepped towards Grand Central Station after the Polk Awards. Wow.

16 of us were named Polk Laureates, honored today alongside the 2024 journalism winners. Couldn't fit all 16 in my phone camera, but David Remnick and Dean Baquet are behing me, Laura Poitras is next to Dean
You can also see Nikole Hannah-Jones, Alma Guillermoprieto...

Live. David Remnick speaks at the Polk Awards....where all know that Journalism is in crisis.

Live at the Polk VICE News is honored for infiltrating Wagner Group, filming it and showing how the mercenaries operate.

Live at the Polk Awards, where 2 teams of reporters from ProPublica and Post Gazette documented U.S. FDA failure to regulate breathing devices that were deadly.

Live at the Polk Awards. Chris Osher and Julia Cardi of The Gazette uncovered a corrupt Colorado social welfare system that returned abused children to their families...resulting in 5 murdered by parents.

POLK award...Samar Elouf and Ypussef Masoud, for The New York Times photography in #Israel and #Gaza ..

The Polk Awards...

More to celebrate today.
reuters.com/world/us/biden…

Just arrived at the George C. POLK Awards in Manhattan. For 75 years the Polk has honored great journalism. And I am flabbergasted that I will be receiving a special award. Exciting!

Can't recommend this strongly enough. You will end up binging the whole thing. And then you will realize who #VladimirPutin really is.

audible.com/pd/Deputy-Mayo…

“In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not captured by most climate model simulations.” nature.com/articles/s4324…

We apparently learned nothing from Mad Cow Disease, aka BSE.

Humans are fundamentally altering Earth climate by trapping heat that should be escaping into space and warming the planet
They do this by pumping over 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year through fossil fuel use.
Also destroying forests/wetlands that

Totality: An HDR composite image of yesterday's eclipse. This photo used 5 cameras to capture thousands of photos during a 4 minute period.

My goal was to capture the magic of the visual experience, and I hope this photo evokes similar emotions I experienced while watching it.

If you've been following the play-by-play with North Atlantic sea surface temperatures, then you'll want to know that the f&%kery is continuing.

Such a clear, hi-def view of the eclipse. Gives a real sense of the traveling darkness.

La Niña (the cool flip-side of El Niño) is (likely) coming: cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analy…
With that will global temperatures will trend back toward the overall trend line. It's the trend line we should be worried about. The warming will continue until carbon emissions reach zero.