In the western Pacific, coral reefs are starting to die. Scientists are linking it to a global super El Niño and climate change: “We expect this to get worse and worse and worse until the end of this year...This is just the tip of the iceberg.” tinyurl.com/bde8x5rm @dgelles @nytimes

Europe on fire...again. "It is the fifth heat wave to hit Europe since May...a string of dangerous wildfires, dried rivers and sent residents flocking to cooler spots as scientists warn that Europe is warming faster than any other continent." @nazaneentv @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...

This graph in this Washington Post story is seriously shocking. If you thought fires, floods and drought now are bad, it will get much worse later this year. tinyurl.com/mmtkaht2 @BenNollWeather @JohnMuyskens

Wildfires are growing rapidly in North America and Europe. But in Africa, Asia and South America, wildfire intensity is lower since they are used mainly to clear land for agriculture: “it really is all driven by human demographic change.” @borenbears @AP

Bad news for climate disinformation.

China's five-year plan for renewables: "China is transitioning from a “major energy nation" to an “energy powerhouse”...China will “move to the very forefront of the global stage” on clean energy “venturing into uncharted territory” @CardonBrief

Under Trump, mass transit projects already funded put on hold: “It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants,” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u... @NYTimes @emilymbadger @aliciaparlap

Excellent conversation with veteran climate reporters Chris Mooney and Andy Revkin: "Mooney discusses his experimental approach to writing, which involves treating stories as data sets to better understand and map narrative structures." @Revkin @chriscmooney revkin.substack.com/p/live-2-pm-...

Excellent reporting: data centers spew poisonous gases putting VA communities at risk: "The 10,500 generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health even if used rarely" @evanhalper @kcrowebasspro www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @washingtonpost

In Montana, tribes battle climate change and funding cuts: "Knowledge, once learned, cannot be taken away...we have that knowledge now, and we will continue on our path to protect what's out there." @mtpublicradio @NPR www.npr.org/people/g-s1-...

This Memorial Day, remember the heroes.

Study: renewable energy is more effective than removing carbon pollution. “Solar and wind beat direct air capture now and all the way through 2050, even if direct air capture gets substantially cheaper and more energy-efficient" @DeWeerdt_Sarah @anthropocenemag.bsky.social shorturl.at/Dpw9g

A taste of temperatures to come as the Super El Niño slowly builds: "Significant heatwave will build across California this weekend, bringing many cities their hottest temperatures since the unprecedented March heatwave." @US_Stormwatch

Heat wave coming this summer and fall: "a Super El Niño "perhaps the most intense since the epochal El Niño of 1877...historian Mike Davis called them “Late Victorian Holocausts.” @dwallacewells @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Scientists say fossil fuels are driving climate change. Diplomats are trying a new tactic to stop it: "For 30 years, COPs have failed to confront the root causes of the climate crisis head on.” shorturl.at/CulsX @dgelles @nytimes

Trump's wholesale slaughter of EPA's environmental science puts human health at risk: “If you have no data I guess you can just assume things are safe”https://nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html?smid=tw-share @LFFriedman @nytimes

Controlling the rising seas: “The question is no longer whether sea level rise can be kept low, but how high it will go, how quickly it will rise, and how much damage we are prepared to accept” ⁦@physorg_com @ConversationUK

Anthropic's latest Mythos model sends security shockwaves through Wall Street and the government: "Anthropic’s new powerful Claude Mythos model has significantly escalated AI disruption fears" ft.com/content/f120... via @ft

My story on Substack's Money Trail: deadly black lung disease is on the rise. The Trump admin and the mining industry claim coal mines are safe and have blocked rules to cut black lung cases. “It’s safer to work in a U.S. coal mine than to work in a shopping mall ” open.substack.com/pub/themoney...

Woah! The scientist who first warned Congress about the threat of climate change says this year's global heat will reach a stunning record of 1.7C. Scary if that comes true. Even scarier to think about what comes next.

China will soon eclipse the U.S. in the race to fund science: "China is on pace to eclipse the U.S. as the world’s largest funder of public science within the next two to three years" @caixin www.caixinglobal.com/2026-03-27/c...

UN boosts slavery reparations: “Let it be recorded that...we did what was right for the memory of the millions who suffered the indignity of slavery.” https//apnews.com/article/un-vote-africa-slavery-trafficking-reparations-a7497cdb7d24a89eedb50beb683adc0f?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share

Dirty King Coal still powers China's clean tech economy: "four years after Xi Jinping’s pledges, China was consuming 40 percent more coal than the rest of the world combined." e360.yale.edu/features/chi... via @YaleE360 @IsabelHilton

It's so hot MLB changed its spring training schedule: "Bringing the heat in spring training is supposed to be about hard-throwing pitchers, not triple-digit temperatures" @APhttps://www.tricityrecordnm.com/articles/a-heat-wave-with-triple-digit-temps-is-altering-the-mlb-cactus-league-schedule/

Nearing the breaking point: “Our civilization has evolved...when climate has been stable, so we are profoundly unsuited to the types of shocks that we’re seeing today...Human systems sort of bend to a certain point. And then, at some point, they break.” shorturl.at/JPp7K @khayhoe @dgelles @nytimes

Nearly 50 years ago a new form of investigative journalism was born when David Weir, Lowell Bergman and Dan Noyes created the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. I worked with them over a 30-year period. So glad its journalism still thrives today. open.substack.com/pub/davidwei...

Why stopping data centers won’t stop A.I.: “this is a very fast-moving technology, and it doesn’t seem likely that any meaningful A.I. legislation will become law without the White House changing hands.” @dwallacewells @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Florida and Texas already in drought as warm spring weather approaches. droughtmonitor.unl.edu

Annual temps continue to rise in the US. Scientists predict rapidly warming temps to come: "Overall, the U.S. saw above-average temperatures in February, with an average anomaly — or difference from normal — of 2.1°F across 192 cities." @ClimateCentral www.climatecentral.org/report/month...

EPA delays cleanup of toxic coal ash sites: “The owners of the landfills will save a total of $8.1 million to $30 million a year because of the delayed compliance deadlines” @ethanhowland27 @UtilityDive