Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
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New data centers could double one utility’s electricity load – with power from coal. But key details are blacked out. Should ratepayers be worried?
Little debby cakes are also incredible if you need a fast sugar hit on like a long bike ride. They also taste much better and are way cheaper than gu
Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups.
Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency.
The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.
What can you do with a history degree?
I was not expecting Bad Bunny to celebrate the work of linemen during halftime but I'm here for it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure foreign investors.
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself
Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature.
This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities.
Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee.
ecori.org/the-usual-su...
haha I think it's more because it's a very international city. There's a WhatsApp group for every bike ride. There's one for my apartment complex and my work. And, I'm in another group for climate related things in town.
No one told me how many WhatsApp groups it would take to have a social life in Miami
solid methodology
The Trump FBI raided the author's home today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.'
drilled.media/news/Venezue...
You might want to sit down for this, but the panel that just idiotically told Americans to eat more beef and dairy, for their health, might have had conflicts of interest
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
How is academia intertwined with the fossil industry? What does this mean for academic freedom and the climate transition?
Browse the interactive report of the Dutch Mapping Fossil Ties Coalition. Search your favourite fossil company, university or just flip through! mappingfossilties.org/report
A new report from @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social documents oil spills, gas releases and climate pollution at Energy Transfer’s web of pipelines nationwide. The company and its affiliates have reported 300 spills & 126 gas releases since 2018.
@insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Venture Global founders and co-chairs under scrutiny for buying millions in shares after meeting with senior Trump officials, who approved a key export license that will allow the LNG company's expansion in Europe to move forward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:
A really nice analysis of the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
Lots of excellent data-packed figures.
Thank you so much!
Interesting, Zan! Do you have an example we can look into?
Cool opportunity for college students! And it's paid 🤑
Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha
