If you’re newly aware of and concerned about PFAS, read Zoë Schlanger “Maine Is a Warning for America’s PFAS Future” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Energy and climate realities intertwine everywhere, but especially in coastal Louisiana as the land sinks and LNG exports of abundant gas rise. I wrote long ago about the "methane age" being a long one and this Zoë Schlanger update makes that clear. Sobering to look back at

"Carbon capture is, if anything, helping the oil and gas industry justify its continued operations, and the march of new LNG terminals along Louisiana’s shoreline." Please read this deeply reported, phenomenally smart piece by Zoë Schlanger! 🧵 theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

As The Atlantic prepares for #TAF24, the company won’t agree to core protections in our contract. There's a gulf between the values that The Atlantic espouses onstage and what it’s willing to give its employees. We'll be at the festival, fighting for a fair contract.

It's the time of year when climate reporters text each other "are we doing this again?" On that note, who has the COP29 intel, who should I be speaking with, my inbox is open

Today I wrote about Mex, a man with M.S. who is suing Austria for violating his human rights. He suffers from a syndrome that fully immobilizes him in high temperatures. It's the most intimate climate case I've read, and could change climate law entirely theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

In New England, when bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticides, and baby mortality spiked science.org/content/articl…

Noteworthy nugget from Project 2025's agenda for EPA's air office. Currently, both the positions in question are held by career staff: #EPA #AirPollution #Project2025

Mex Mullner is suing Austria for failing to curb the climate crisis. He could, Zoë Schlanger writes, "be the first individual anywhere in the world to have their personal harms from climate change be recognized as a violation of their human rights." theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

This is such a good piece by Ross Andersen, on how animals understand death, grief, and their grieving kin. Glad to now know about comparative thanatology, the study of how animals experience death. What a fascinating discipline. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

An intense tick-tock of an accident at an oil refinery in Louisiana with these killer visual reconstructions of the plume theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Well we got a little sprinkle of climate jobs and a big sprinkle of gas talked and a scattered solar-loving moment from Trump. All whilst parts of the country are on fire or awaiting hurricane. On the climate dimension tonight: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Really special to see both Emily Raboteau and Zoë Schlanger included in this important stack of climate books: latimes.com/environment/st…

The debate happened while wildfires burned in four states and Louisiana braced for a possible hurricane landfall. No one wants to talk about it, but the next president is going to be a climate-disaster president. The material miseries will be their problem theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

I also put together a climate book list to accompany my essay on climate anxiety So many inspiring—and mind-expanding! —books by the likes of Zoë Schlanger Elizabeth Kolbert Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙 Hope Jahren Emily Raboteau Bill Weir Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy. Come read with me! latimes.com/environment/st…

apologies to everyone to whom I owe an email but I just got a hella cool book in the mail

Bird flu just got kicked up a notch. Here's Yasmin Tayag on the bird flu infection of a person in Missouri with no known contact with a sick animal theatlantic.com/health/archive…

“After a year of floods and storms across the country, more than 10 percent of Americans no longer have home insurance, as climate risk sends the insurance industry fleeing vulnerable places.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

I had to stop reading this intense Sarah Zhang piece twice because I could tell I was going to cry and I hadn't planned to cry on the subway today. Exceptional, precise journalism on a harrowing topic: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

A total honor to see The Light Eaters reviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert in this issue of The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2024/…