Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

On the Bright Side: Blue Whales Spotted in New England Waters I wrote about blue whales, the biggest animal ever to inhabit Earth, off and on at The New York Times (see an example at the bottom of the post).

On the Bright Side: Blue Whales Spotted in New England Waters revkin.substack.com/p/on-the-bri... 🧪🐋🌏

And it isn't just missiles and mines threaatening traffic. There's also GPS jamming and spoofing, which I wrote on last summer and is surging anew: revkin.substack.com/p/persian-gu...

If there's an upside to Trump / Bibi's assault on Iran (along with the small possibility of positive regime change), it's that the resulting oil $ spike could further weaken GOP candidates in #election2026. Surreal recalling my transit of the Strait of Hormuz delivering an oil-rig diver's boat. 1/

The Road Ahead: Climate & Sustainability with Andrew Revkin | Sustainability Matters YouTube video by CUNY TV

I talked about this on @onthemedia.bsky.social and elsewhere many times from 2005 onward. And also here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gb1...

Why NBC's Top Climate Reporter Resigned YouTube video by HEATED

NBC loses @chasecain.bsky.social's climate reporting. @emorwee.bsky.social and @tracywholf.bsky.social explore why: youtu.be/L3VXzpnFCUY?... Cain describes challenges wedging in coverage of incremental dynamics when covering extreme weather and its impacts. More below. attn: @coveringclimatenow.org

Natural gas price spike from Trump’s Iran war surges coal demand in Europe and parts of Asia. War and energy…. @financialtimes.com

A retired NYT reporter bemoans the death of the copy desk at the paper (years ago).

♫ We Sent an Army to the Desert To Keep Our Country Free - and to Liberate Some Carbon, Baby, for You and Me..." ♬ Watch now | A song I wrote after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq stays exasperatingly relevant

Here's full song and annotated lyrics (some fun annotations)
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I just posted my (unfortunately) ever-relevant song "Liberated Carbon" on #SustainWhat with annotated lyrics. I wrote it in 2003 during the Iraq War. This line keeps reverberating: ♫ We sent an army to the desert to keep this country free - and to liberate some carbon, baby, for you and me..." ♬ 1/

The unfolding war with Iran is taking me back to 1991: Oil Dependency, Trump's Iran War and Paths to Sustainable and Secure Energy Alternatives revkin.substack.com/p/oil-depend...

The big picture: Fueled by fracking, the U.S. has been the world's largest natural gas producer since 2011. Since 2022, it's also been the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the fastest-growing segment of global gas trade.

Yes, but: The moat isn't impenetrable. And if substantially more American natural gas gets exported, it could raise heating and electricity bills.

Why it matters: Natural gas hasn't, historically, drawn the same headlines as the more volatile oil markets. But it's increasingly central to the economy — including powering the AI boom....

Amy Harder at Axios energy: America's natural gas bounty is acting like a moat, largely shielding the U.S. from price spikes while much of the world reels from escalating unrest in the Middle East. 1/

"Liberated Carbon" YouTube video by Andrew Revkin

The bridge in my song Liberated Carbon remains sadly too relevant: “ we sent an army to the desert to keep this country, free, and to deliberate some carbon, baby, for you and me…”

youtu.be/pzZ_M4rnD48

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

The Singing Journalist — Jesup Memorial Library In this evening of storytelling and songs, longtime journalist, author, educator and performing songwriter Andy Revkin will explore the evolution of his dual-path journey aimed at connecting the publi...

The Singing Journalist www.jesuplibrary.org/events/singi...

Thursday at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor, Maine, i’m trying something new - exploring my interrelated, journeys and journalism and songwriting in one show! Anyone recall that San Fran @agu.org moment?

It was tough reporting but someone had to do it…

The most hilarious aspect was the starkly competing arguments for why global warming was a hoax.

Damn….

Suspected naval drone obliterates Russian LNG tanker.

The unfolding war with Iran is taking me back to 1991: Oil Dependency, Trump's Iran War and Paths to Sustainable and Secure Energy Alternatives revkin.substack.com/p/oil-depend...

Yes! Know her?

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Ukrainians live under thousands of Russian strikes with various types of weapons. In the last week of winter alone, Russia used more than 1,720 attack drones, nearly 1,300 guided aerial bombs, and over 100 missiles of various types against Ukraine.

Amid All, a Dose of Sunday Sanity with Texas-Spawned Songwriter and Poet Vince Bell Watch now | Vince embodies the kind of resilient determination to create and connect we all need

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A healing dose of Texas bard Vince Bell’s resilient creative zeal facing daunting challenges (rebuilding a career after suffering a brain injury and almost losing an arm when a drunk driver broadsided him leaving an Austin recording studio just as his career was taking off). 1/

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

THIS.

A preventive strike, in which the powerful hit the weaker state, is considered illegal. An example would be Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, which the United States and much of the world denounced as a gross violation of the international order. 3/3