Kimberly Mas And here's the article :~) vox.com/even-better/20…

Last year, I wrote about the two costs of fast fashion: what you see on the price tag...and the real one. Kimberly Mas produced a stunning video version of that piece. Watch it here!
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i feel like I'm going to vomit but i just learned that the video version of my stuff piece, produced by Kimberly Mas, is a Webby finalist!!! tell your friends, family, lovers, and enemies to please vote for it here:
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I finally wrote about the best animals: Bats.

Naturally, the news is not great. The unique physiologies that allow bats to fly — which NO other mammals can do — also put them at unique risk to climate change, to warming.

A fact-filled collab w/ @Quemas
vox.com/down-to-earth/…

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I need you all to know that Umair Irfan fought valiantly for a SpongeBob-themed headline.

... But seriously the images alone in this article are worth gawking at.

sometimes i write about more hopeful things

these crabs are hopeful

i love crabs

photos by Jennifer Adler
vox.com/down-to-earth/…

In April of 2022, I went diving in Florida to see coral reefs that had been restored.

I returned to the same reefs earlier this month after an extreme heat wave struck the Caribbean.

These photos by Jennifer Adler show the before and after.

Florida’s reefs are dying. 1/

a reminder that making things hard to repair is a business strategy that's been around since the 1950s

The situation in the Florida Keys is incredibly grim.

The water is as warm as a hot tub.

A massive amount of coral is bleaching and dying.

The future of this iconic reef is bleak.
edition.cnn.com/2023/07/25/us/…

What.

I ctrl+s so often I've worn off the lettering.

Anyway, I have anxiety.

Um. The whole point is so people *don't* know that I'm sporadically nocturnal.

FLUFFY. FLYING. NARWHALS.

When you were 15...what job did you think you'd have at 30?

Who needs a blue check when you have a BLUE WHALE?

Water budget:
Corn 42 billion gallons
Wheat 47 billion gallons
Barley 28 billion gallons
Cattle feed 1,049 billion gallons
Cotton 204 billion gallons

Someone who is good at the water management please help my river is drying.

vox.com/the-highlight/…

The precipitous drop in solar photovoltaic prices was no accident.

youtu.be/V8Vtb0bn30M

Trying to meet a deadline and soundsnap is like 'choose every image with a cabbage'