Of course when I stumble on the searching for garden poems: Ada Limon.

I’m a climate scientist, four-time author of the US National Climate Assessment, and that is not true. Here’s a short and easy explainer of how climate change is indeed loading the extreme weather dice against us: youtube.com/watch?v=LT4aZz…

In May 2025, NOAA ceased providing support for this product "in response to an initiative to implement reduction within the US federal government." Today Climate Central is making the data available. For those who are looking for it, check out the Climate Central, Inc. website:

& so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay

gays in the mountains, homosexuals by the lake

Florence Welch stuns screaming into hole.

The economy continues to show resilience in the face of despair and mass depredation. My daughter is swan. Is crab grass run riot. Meanwhile, I am becoming unrecognizable to everyone except myself. . . ––Michael Dumanis Michael Dumanis #PoemADay poets.org/poem/sehnsucht

People are being forced out of DC. The cost of living is too high, and Trump is waging an all-out assault on the District. It should be easier and more affordable to build a life here. That's why I’m running for DC Council in Ward 1. Join us: aparnafordc.com/donate

W.S. Merwin poem for those hoping to see the Perseid meteor shower tonight. From: The Shadow of Sirius (Bloodaxe, 2009).

Heavily fracked counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania & West Virginia have fewer people & fewer total jobs now than before the shale gas boom began, new research shows. Canary Media EJTodayNews Gilbert Michaud Ohio River Valley Institute Buckeye Environmental Network Save Ohio Parks canarymedia.com/articles/fossi…

Fracking hasn’t delivered Appalachia the jobs it’s promised — and it maybe be “structurally incapable” of ever doing so. Dive into the new Ohio River Valley Institute report with Kathiann M. Kowalski: canarymedia.com/articles/fossi…

Reddy Kilowatt!! Just found this stuff at an auction, it’s such good marketing: Be modern, cook electrically Beat the heat/kill the chill Flameless electric living is safe living Position as modern, safe, comfortable. Mainstream. Love it!

i’ve got a new poem in a recent issue of The Progressive. it’s called “friends” and i’ve been meaning to share it for a while, but it feels fitting, given all the references to bugs & heat, to share it now, in this last chapter of summer—

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Today's #PoemADay Academy of American Poets is by Paul Tran, a tour-de-force ruthlessly crafted, unrepentant, vulnerable, political, and beautiful. "Let’s go. Nobody is expecting us. Get ready." ♥️🔥

Here I can take up the whole of the sky, Unfurling becoming my full size Look at me burst through the ceiling Aren’t you so glad you came Breathless and begging And screaming my name florence.lnk.to/everybodyscrea… Everybody Scream Title Track 🪾 Written by Florence Welch, Mark Bowen

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

During his first term, Trump abandoned a similar effort to force electricity ratepayers to pay billions of dollars to bail out top donors in the utility and coal industry in the face of widespread opposition. It's just nuts that he's trying this again energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-do…

More than a dozen youth from Wisconsin are filing a lawsuit against the state’s utility regulator to force it to consider climate change when evaluating new fossil fuel projects. grist.org/justice/in-the…

got to read a favorite poem to some adorable farm friends