To the professional journos I've engaged with the past few days: I'm a journalist, not a source.

I have lots of DMs from journos asking what I saw at CCNY yesterday but few replies from editors who want to pay for my work.

.NOAA: March 2024 was Earth's warmest March on record. Last month marks the 10th month in a row of record-setting global temperatures. Get the March 2024 #climate report here: bit.ly/Mar2024GlobalC… #StateOfClimate

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

🇺🇸 On Climate Projects, A Break In The Action

▫Boston’s defences against rising seas lean on private development. What happens when the money dries up?
▫Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ Catherine Carlock
▫is.gd/f4LyxY

#frontpagestoday #USA The Boston Globe 🇺🇸

Greentown Labs, the large U.S. climate tech incubator with locations in Somerville and in Houston, will lay off 30% of their staff. Scoop by Sabrina Shankman bostonglobe.com/2024/04/05/sci…

'Extreme heat during 2023 was incomparable, with exceptional and record-shattering heatwaves around the world .... Given how close 2023 was to the ominous 1.5 °C warming threshold, it is imperative that we prepare for previously unthinkable and unseasonal heat extremes.'

NEW: Several flood-protection projects like sea walls, berms, and elevated land are tangled up in the same massive mixed-use development projects in Boston that now face slowdowns. By me + Catherine Carlock bostonglobe.com/2024/04/05/sci…

Boston flooding, sea-level rise projects slowed by real estate slump, reports Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ and Catherine Carlock bostonglobe.com/2024/04/05/sci… via The Boston Globe

Massachusetts is toughening rules on air pollution in communities of color and low-income areas— becoming among the first states in the nation to attempt regulating what's called the 'cumulative impact' of pollution. bostonglobe.com/2024/03/28/sci…

NEW from me & David Folkenflik:

Chevron since 2009 has been building a network of news seeming sites from Ecuador to Richmond, CA to, most recently, the Permian Basin.

npr.org/2024/03/28/123…

A bill in Florida awaiting signature from Gov. Ron DeSantis would ban offshore wind energy, relax regulations on natural gas pipelines, and delete the majority of mentions of climate change from existing state laws. grist.org/politics/flori…

What's behind all the dead whales that keep washing ashore? According to scientists who study whales, and the experts who necropsy them, it's not offshore wind. So why does the narrative of wind killing whales persist? I took a look here: bostonglobe.com/2024/03/25/sci…

This year, horseshoe crabs in Massachusetts will return to uninhibited procreation on Cape Cod. The state will ban harvesting the crabs during the animal’s spawning season. Read more: bostonglobe.com/2024/03/19/sci… #climate #biodiversity #Massachusetts #fisheries

“I didn’t want to say out loud what it was, because it seemed crazy.'

Gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic, seen in southern New England waters, according to the New England Aquarium.

neaq.org/about-us/press…

Flood recovery has become more of a financial strain on Massachusetts cities, especially for so-called 'gap storms' that don't qualify for federal aid, reports Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ bostonglobe.com/2024/02/26/sci… via The Boston Globe

Sperm whales use clan-specific dialects called codas. The whale clans likely date back to the Ice Age and their codas could be orders of magnitude more ancient than Sanskrit. Every moment in this Ross Andersen piece is a world of awe theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

ProPublica and The Desert Sun found that a majority of the water consumed by farms in California’s Imperial Valley goes to just 20 families. They used about 387 billion gallons of water in 2022. projects.propublica.org/california-far…

In today's paper: MTA exerts more power amid a wave of teacher strikes, generating praise and scorn, ‘a thing of the past’: With warmer winters, outdoor skating is on thin ice

With warmer winters, the New England tradition of outdoor skating is on thin ice trib.al/i6s8g24

Just in: Our union.

The Texas Tribune has formally recognized us🎉

We look forward to working with our organization’s management to shape the next era of the Tribune.