As millions step out in the searing heat to vote starting Friday, where's climate in India's election manifestos? Some say voters and netas don't really care, but cheaper electricity and corruption-free coal have been major poll planks. In 2024, climate gets a bigger shoutout 👇

Rising temperatures, storms, inflation, collapsing currencies, cholera.

Now the worst drought in 40 years.

With Manuela Andreoni

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/cli…

Is it just me or is the grey gold of the NYC sky a bit like Delhi in (polluted) winter?

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back. propublica.org/article/repatr…

This is a thoughtful essay by Adam Sobel in @nature

'Climate change, in fact, might be one of the more certain components of our future. Social and political developments are even more difficult to predict.'

nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Paris Olympics are going on a climate diet.

But should we have the Olympics at all on a hot planet?

Story by me and Catherine Porter

nytimes.com/2024/03/16/cli…

For your Things That Used to Be Worse and Got Better files: Much of the Eastern U.S. was deforested in the 18th & 19th centuries. European settlers cut down every tree they could reach. Now forests have regrown and eased some global warming scientificamerican.com/article/succes… on Scientific American

Britain, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, isn’t ready for the climate hazards facing its citizens

Happy US/Canada pub day to Akshat Rathi's timely, engaging book!

Lucky me. I got an early copy and inhaled it!

Delivering aid like this, with air drops and sea corridors is usually done to assist civilians in countries with regimes hostile to US, not a territory where an American ally is waging war. This is unprecedented.

The fingerprints of carbon pollution are all over winter, per attribution research from Climate Central

Also Feb. 2024 was the hottest Feb. ever, says Copernicus EU

nytimes.com/2024/03/06/cli…

Heat stress makes some of the world's poorest women poorer.

An explainer on a stark Food and Agriculture Organization report

nytimes.com/2024/03/05/cli…

We are in an 'event.'
Not an 'epoch.'
(Gotta love scientists. For real.) nytimes.com/2024/03/05/cli…

“Pigeons, which Flaco had been seen hunting recently, can ingest high levels of lead while pecking around the city. Lead can accumulate in birds of prey, causing lack of coordination, weakness and other symptoms.” By ⁦Catrin Einhorn⁩ nytimes.com/2024/02/24/cli…

In honor of Flaco, re-upping this essay on the birds in our lives

nytimes.com/2023/02/24/cli…

“A means of survival in Africa fuels the demand for luxury products from the middle class in China,” said Emmanuel Sarr, who heads the West Africa regional office of Brooke, an NGO that works to protect donkeys and horses.
“This cannot continue.” nytimes.com/2024/02/23/wor…

✍️Thursday, join journalists Raymond Zhong, Somini Sengupta🥭, and Jesse Pesta for a conversation with Orville Schell about reporting on climate change for the The New York Times. RSVP: asiasociety.org/center-us-chin…

Feel like winters are becoming... less wintery?

My analysis of Met Office data shows that between 1961-90 and 1991-2020, UK winters became:

🌡️ 0.9C warmer
🌧️ 15% wetter
❄️ Less snowy (4.5 fewer 'snow days')
🌬️ (Slightly) less windy

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🧵 of key charts 1/n

Indonesia's elections matter to the rest of us.

Part of our Indonesia package with Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎 Richard Paddock and Mukita Suhartono
nytimes.com/2024/02/14/cli…

An excellent lede.
A fascinating tale. nytimes.com/2024/02/13/sci…