NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
Multiple bar charts comparing milks across a number of environmental metrics: land use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and eutrophication (the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients). These are compared per liter of milk. Cowβs milk has significantly higher impacts than the plant-based alternatives across all metrics. It causes around three times as much greenhouse gas emissions; uses around ten times as much land; two to twenty times as much freshwater; and creates much higher levels of eutrophication. The data source is based on a meta-analysis (by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek, 2018) of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data
A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate riskβdriving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
News: I was cut yesterday in a newsroom-wide layoff affecting 300+ staff at The Washington Post.
I spent the last decade leading and building the award-winning Graphics team. I'll miss them.
I'm now exploring senior graphics, cartography, or leadership roles. Intros welcome.
timmeko.com
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
Trump calls on Republicans to "take over the voting" in 15 states, presumably those run by Democrats, an escalation in his effort to assert control over American elections. @reidepstein.bsky.social @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a π’temperamental little shit M-dwarf π’but is instead a 𧑠good orange boi π§‘
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: ππ§ͺ
A $17 billion backlog in FEMA aid.
Delays stem from a directive issued by Noem in June that said any expenditure of $100,000 or more must be approved by her office: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c... @byscottdance.com
After yesterday's winter storm caused widespread cancellations and the loss of nearly 2,000 donations, NYBC has reissued a blood emergency. If itβs safe for you to travel and youβre eligible, please donate in the days ahead. https://bit.ly/4t7xrCH
A $17 billion backlog in FEMA aid.
Delays stem from a directive issued by Noem in June that said any expenditure of $100,000 or more must be approved by her office: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c... @byscottdance.com
STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA JANUARY 24, 2026 I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release. At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.
ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the OΔhΓ©thi Ε akΓ³winnto be taken this month.
Statement from Standing Rock:
Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.
As I've written before, people donβt trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
π¨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947.
The share of the nationβs income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
A map of the globe that shows the southern hemisphere, including New Zealand on the top left and Antarctica in the bottom center. The map shows the path of a ship that will travel from New Zealand to the West Antarctic and back between December 2025 and February 2026.
No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time π (with a big assist from
@willbdavis.bsky.social )
Follow along our βslow blogβ as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica:
ππ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
trying to fix my problems with MORE CSS
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
Heβs like, βI think I did see your house. It was the blue one, right? Yeah, itβs floating down Route 35. Itβs on fire.ββ
A brilliant @scrawford.bsky.social story on New Jersey's endless cycle of rebuilding the shore. And yes, there is a climate angle. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Are you an AmeriCAN or an AmeriCANTO
Acting on an order from President Trump, the federal government has adopted a plan to pump more water to Central Valley farmlands from the Delta. The Newsom administration objects, saying Trump is βcatering to big donors instead of doing whatβs right for Californiansβ www.latimes.com/environment/...
Related reading: Bloomberg did an excellent deep dive into private sector risk modeling last year: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
While the administration has said it is cutting βwoke programsβ that βpoison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine.
βThey brought everything to a stop,β said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.βs National Cancer Institute
Extreme weather transformed rivers into lakes in Sri Lanka this weekend. Deaths Surpass 350 now. One of the most challenging natural disaster in the island nationβs history. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w... | π°οΈ Copernicus S2
