Paige Vega

I’d love to receive your ideas later this summer and fall, and in the meantime, please pitch @bryanrwalsh.bsky.social Walsh (climate, etc) and Katie Courage (Down To Earth).

Hi folks, consider this my away message: I recently had a baby!

For the next few months, I’ll be on maternity leave from @vox.com

I’ll be back in late July and will be slowly ramping up our climate, biodiversity, health and science freelance projects after that time.

As more people fall for the draw of snow-covered landscapes and independent lines, climate change chips away at the very winters that make this lifestyle possible.

Backcountry skiing's surging popularity and skimo’s Olympic arrival feels like the pinnacle of an overlooked aspect of mountain culture that I’m intimately familiar with.

New story from me exploring complicated feelings around skimo's Winter Olympic debut, backcountry skiing, rural mountain lifestyles and climate change ✨

*Gift link*
www.vox.com/climate/4795... @vox.com @coveringclimatenow.org @climatedesk.org @sejorg.bsky.social @uprootproject.bsky.social

Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?

In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...

Trump just blew up a load-bearing pillar of climate regulation in the US. What happens now? First, lawsuits.

First, lawsuits. www.vox.com/climate/4789...

A baby bat getting a bubble bath might be the cutest thing we’ve ever seen 🥹🦇

That’s just a normal day at Tolga Bat Hospital, a treatment center for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.

Though seriously: If you would like a wonderful start to your day, you need to see these photos. 🥹🫠 (Kudos to our Australia-based photographer Harriet Spark and art director @paigevickers.bsky.social)

Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.

At Australia's bat hospital, volunteers bottle-feed flying foxes injured by heat waves, ticks, barbed wire. It’s too cute (PHOTOS!) — and a reminder that protecting wildlife is inseparable from protecting the ecosystems *we all* depend on.

@benjij.bsky.social /@vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4780...

Bad Bunny’s knockout halftime show, explained by a Puerto Rican All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed.

Here's a gift link to the @vox.com piece I wrote explaining eight of the biggest, cultural, "if you know, you know" moments of Bad Bunny's halftime show www.vox.com/culture/4784...

Bad Bunny’s unapologetically American Super Bowl show All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed, explained.

This is a great piece 💙

@izzieramirez.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/culture/4784...

We have a miraculous anti-aging vaccine. Why aren’t more people getting it? Research has found that a routine vaccine slows aging and cut dementia risk.

Don't sleep on the shingles vaccine, y'all.

@dylanlscott.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/47776...

Trump’s new Wildland Fire Service is failing to ignite Wildfires are a growing threat. Do we need a new federal agency to help?

Trump's new fire agency is off to a shaky start.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4777...

America’s wildfire risk data quietly puts millions of homes in danger Federal models keep missing homes that burn. A new AI tool zooms in.

Government risk maps are too coarse for the way wildfire works now. But new tools powered by AI are giving us a clearer picture.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4769...

Something very unexpected is happening to Norway’s polar bears Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.

New research reveals a wrinkle of hope for polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4768...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.

"Spawning on the Great Barrier Reef has been called the largest reproductive event on Earth, and, in more colorful terms, 'the world’s largest orgasm.'"

@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4754...

Why forecasters struggled to see this extreme winter storm coming The tricky science behind why cold snaps sneak up on us.

Icy spells sneak up on us, posing a greater challenge to forecasters and leaving little time to prepare compared to slower-moving extremes like heat waves.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com:
www.vox.com/climate/4761...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.

💥 Big feature out today from @benjij.bsky.social — an exclusive look into the most ambitious effort humanity has ever launched to save an ecosystem, sourced from his field reporting at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Don't miss this one. (No paywall)

www.vox.com/climate/4754... @vox.com

@longreads.com @sejorg.bsky.social @uprootproject.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @climatedesk.org

Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.

💥 Big feature out today from @benjij.bsky.social — an exclusive look into the most ambitious effort humanity has ever launched to save an ecosystem, sourced from his field reporting at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Don't miss this one. (No paywall)

www.vox.com/climate/4754... @vox.com

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study

www.vox.com/health/47530...

In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless How the agency’s new math favors polluters over people.

In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless [via @vox.com]

Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0 The agency’s new math to favor polluters, explained.

The EPA is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people.

@umairfan.bsky.social spoke w/ several experts, including former EPA officials, and indeed, the change will likely lead to worsening air quality and harm public health.

www.vox.com/climate/4751... @vox.com

So our brains aren’t full of microplastics after all? The research on microplastics in our bodies is terrifying. It might also be wrong.

The race to publish results may have produced weak evidence — and unnecessary panic — about plastics inside the human body.

From our friends at @climatedesk.org and @theguardian.com
www.vox.com/climate/4750... @vox.com

Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true. RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.

Ahead of the release of the new dietary guidelines, the Trump admin buried a government study that provided the clearest evidence yet of the harms of alcohol.

Now, the the official guidance yanks any limits on alcohol consumption.

@dylanlscott.bsky.social @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/47472...

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Is inflammation really the root of all of our health problems? What's the difference between "good" inflammation and "bad inflammation"?

Join @dylanlscott.bsky.social on Reddit right now as he answers all of your questions about inflammation 👇🤖

The new food pyramid is lying to you It’s also a contradictory mess.

Some early takes said the new food guidelines weren't too bad, but you always gotta dig deeper to really understand what MAHA is doing. So much going on here is chaos but most notably the new guidance makes an aggressive turn toward centering animal-based foods

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true. RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.

Ahead of the release of the new dietary guidelines, the Trump admin buried a government study that provided the clearest evidence yet of the harms of alcohol.

Now, the the official guidance yanks any limits on alcohol consumption.

@dylanlscott.bsky.social @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/47472...

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