Hurricane Milton is on track to hit Florida's phosphate mining hub, worrying environmental groups about potential pollution impacts Our analysis shows 22 of the state's 25 phosphate waste piles are in Milton's path Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

Tampa Bay Times staff working through the night covering Hurricane Milton from all our safe houses are now facing the fact that, uh, that big ole crane in Downtown St. Pete fell into our office building. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

After a 19-hour reporting day, Ian Hodgson and I our winding down for the night It’s been a rough stretch for Tampa Bay. But the great people we’ve met these past two weeks prove we’ll come out the other side stronger than ever Some of our reporting 👇

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 change. A great read from @UFJschool senior Sarah Henry: atriummag.org/mascot-for-cru…

I wrote about the intentional community of Celo, N.C., as a model for the kinds of creative, transformative solutions we need to help people seeking refuge from climate-charged calamities like Hurricane Helene. TNX Jason Mark @sierramagazine: sierraclub.org/sierra/north-c…

Read about the community where the novelist Anne Tyler lived as a child and learned how to strike a match on the sole of her foot. Sierra Magazine.

Congratulations to the hard-working UF College of Journalism and Communications & Mizzou Journalism journalists who’ve won the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Outstanding Student Reporting Award for their fertilizer investigation, The Price of Plenty! So proud, w/ coteachers Sara Shipley Hiles & Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️: sej.org/outstanding-st…

Published WUFT News and the Columbia Missourian with huge thanks to Pulitzer Center, UF CJC Journalism Department & Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk for funding.

"Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected" by NPR's David Folkenflik is a model of "not the odds, but the stakes" reporting. It collects the facts and sounds the alarm without a trace of 'both sides do it.' npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-…

So many news stories about the new weight loss drugs bubble over in credulity. Follow Chad Terhune for savvier coverage.

"What corrupted the application was the investors." Galling but great read Stephen Robert Miller @wired on a brilliant plant app developed to reduce chemical pesticide use. Once venture capitalists invested, the aim shifted from fighting pesticides to selling them. wired.com/story/plantix-…

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…