Yesterday, Science Magazine released a paper about what needs to be done to support tribally run green energy projects. My latest from grist
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I wrote about line-drying clothes, which can feel simultaneously like a chore, a privilege, a transgression, and an effective way to cut my family's carbon emissions.
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Ten straight months of record global temperatures. If that's not an emergency, I don't know what is.

Story by my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith: latimes.com/environment/st…

Thank you to Sheldon Whitehouse and Ed Markey for their tireless efforts to end the fossil-fuel era and save America's future.

Mind-blowing that the Democratic majority is not right there with them.

Wheat is down 15%, oilseed rape/canola is down 28%, & winter barley is down 22%

These kinds of farm losses have been taking place all over the developing world in recent years. Will it move the needle with world leaders now that it's happening in the UK?

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Dairy operations feed chicken litter to cows so they can get a growth boost from the drugs left over in the litter. Growth promoting chicken shit spreading #H5N1 to cattle. Hell of system they've built.

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''Big trees are the most important bar of gold on the planet' says Meg Lowman. She was the first scientist to begin studying forest canopies in 1970s. Now aged 70, she’s pursuing goal of safeguarding the future of 10 of world’s most biodiverse forests.' dw.com/en/saving-the-…

'The Forest Service says that by clear-cutting a nearly 1,000-yr-old forest, they’ll teach it to be resilient?”

Just out: this superb, balanced long-read by Alexis Marie Adams, on the battles over old-growth forest in Montana & beyond. Ramifications for us all.
scientificamerican.com/article/can-fo…

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay to all who celebrate (i.e., everyone who likes to drink water, eat food, catch fish, watch birds, live in a stable climate, and not get swept away by floods and/or immolated by wildfire).

How the last 20 years of Sierra snowpack stack up — in one superb graphic by Sean Greene latimes.com/projects/calif… Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics

On @civileats today: My latest reporting on a pesticide industry strategy to get state laws passed that could make it harder for individuals to sue based on claims their illnesses were caused by exposure.
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“On the one hand, I had this animal without a spine in front of me, a relative of snails ... On the other, there was a real individual communicating with me as a human being.” e360.yale.edu/features/octop…

It’s really such a failure of the media at large that we rarely highlight how common it is for injured & sick immigrants to refuse/delay medical care. Instead other narratives proliferate

I’ve covered pesticide exposures, accidents, workplace injuries & more where this happened

SCOOP: the Māori King and other Indigenous leaders will gather tomorrow to sign a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.

the movement is rooted in the Māori worldview, which sees whales as ancestors, one Māori conservationist writes for Atmos: atmos.earth/a-descendants-…

If you read one book about power in the food system this year, make it this one. I was so lucky to get to speak with Austin Frerick about it.

For now, the ugly aftermath of a century's injury to a river is what most people see at the Klamath. But just like an infected wound drains before it can heal, so must undammed rivers. Healing is painful, but ultimately will be beautiful.
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I really enjoyed chatting with Emily Raboteau about mothering through climate change, gentrification, New York, her terrific new collection of essays.
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Snowpack is an essential h20 reservoir, maintaining hydrological systems through dry times. And we are in trouble. insideclimatenews.org/news/09042021/…