For half a century, the University of #Florida’s mascots were living alligators. The story of the original Alberts shows the depth of human cruelty to animals — and how we can change. atriummag.org/mascot-for-cru… h/t Cynthia Barnett

Inside the "plant rescue ops" underway in #Florida to save native species before they're covered by parking lots and Publix's. Rose Schnabel Report for America WUFT News: wuft.org/environment/20…

Thanks David Pocock and ABC News I also highly recommend ‘Rain - A Natural and Cultural History’ Cynthia Barnett Penguin Books penguin.com.au/books/rain-978… #ClimateActionNow #rain #fossilfuels

Good reporting by Marlowe Starling on how Florida’s wildlife agency MyFWC has been throwing support behind Amendment 2 (right to fish and hunt) theguardian.com/environment/20…

If you want to know why 57 percent support isn't enough to pass a ballot initiative in Florida, the answer is these corporations:

From flood ruins in Spain: What it looks like "when political authorities ignore the scientific community, ignore the warnings of the emergency agencies and reject proposals ... to avert a forthcoming disaster," theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Trump's new energy secretary nominee is an oil executive who says: "There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either." politico.com/news/2024/11/1…

🧵: In Las Vegas, heat-related deaths are a fact of life during intensifying, unbearable summers. For Las Vegas Review-Journal, Katie Futterman and I brought to light the stories of three families who lost someone to heat this year: reviewjournal.com/local/local-la…

And only grudging credit given to “student journalists.” and The New York Times wasn’t gracious enough to name The Alligator.

Grateful to have just been awarded 1st place for 2023 Environment Reporting from Arizona Press Club for my narrative investigation into Arizona's climate + housing crises. Thx to MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative for support & congrats to my azcentral colleagues on the category sweep! azpressclub.org/2024/11/19/202…

This is an amazing story from the Tampa Bay Times. Reporters found 19 heat-related worker deaths that weren’t on OSHA’s radar: tampabay.com/investigations…

Thanks to Florida Climate Inst for funding this senior capstone, and to the wonderful Cynthia Barnett and Kylie Williams for seeing it through once I left the state. WUFT News and #EJUF plan to report more without me once it receives emergency documents for each dam.

While other parts of the country make progress removing dams for public safety & wildlife, Florida holds tight to its dams-and to public records on their safety. Alan Halaly🏜️🌼🚰 🎰 reports WUFT News w/ TNX Florida Climate Inst for funding & Brechner Freedom of Information Project records help. wuft.org/environment/da…

Look forward to keynoting the Sunshine State Book Festival this weekend. Join us in #Gainesville to celebrate authors, books and reading. I'll be speaking on weather and climate as literary forces during Saturday's keynote, "Writers on the Storm." #Florida #books sunshinestatebookfestival.com/event-details/…

Can't wait to welcome Benji Backer to FLORIDA Thurs 2/6 for our annual #Climate Communications Summit, devoted this 10th year to bridging the climate divide. Join UF College of Journalism and Communications, Florida Climate Inst, @maxchesnes, @SadieRyan & more. Free and open to public. Register: jou.ufl.edu/2025-climate-c…

TFW a former student 3 years out of UF College of Journalism and Communications is a finalist for the National Magazine Award! 🥳 Read Natalia Galicza's powerful story on solitary confinement 👇. Huzzah to Natalia-and Deseret Magazine for giving great writers what they need to tell stories like Frank De Palma's.

To live in #Florida is to be unsurprised by many things that land us in the news, not least the impressive number of alligators living in #Gainesville's storm sewers. A nice #science story JackTamisiea on Alan Ivory research The New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/02/13/sci…

I can’t remember being this excited for a coming book. Check out the cover of Lance Richardson ❄️🐆’s TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Coming this fall!

If you're in St Pete tomorrow, check out USF's Florida Studies Book Festival! There's a great line-up of authors, including Cynthia Barnett & Craig Pittman. I'll be talking about my book, Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource!

Congratulations to Alan Halaly🏜️🌼🚰 🎰 for a Headliner Awards in environmental writing for his Las Vegas Review-Journal story "A Fatal Forecast," on heat deaths in Las Vegas last summer. These heartbreaking, human stories are worth a read as summer approaches: reviewjournal.com/local/local-la… #EJUF