'How Far Trump Would Go.' Eric Cortellessa scores two interviews with Donald Trump for TIME, asking him to explain what he'd do in a second term. Read here: time.com/6972021/donald…

A synopsis:

my word - it's been revealed that Tyson Foods has dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

by Nina Lakhani

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, Senate report finds - story here by 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Russian version of the Insect Crisis arrived and I have to say I prefer my name in Cyrillic

This gets at something that has bugged me since moving to America, which is the lack of pub culture & how rarely anybody introduces you to friends. As in, how rarely you meet somebody at a bar or whatever and they invite somebody else and you get to meet a stranger

Kristi Noem responds to outrage over her killing a puppy and a goat by reassuring people she also recently killed 3 horses

astonishing account, as reported by Martin Pengelly, of Kristi Noem executing both her dog, Cricket, and her unnamed goat theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Waterfalls are one of the better things in the world and good on Shenandoah for confirming this

does interrupting events to tell the boss of Exxon to 'eat shit' and call Joe Manchin a 'sick fuck' help or hinder climate action? I took a look at Climate Defiance and the new era of confrontational protest theguardian.com/environment/20…

i wrote about the rightwing desire to privatize weather forecasting, as laid out in project 2025

(and other bad ideas for noaa)

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

I'm never going to forget the day that Hillary Clinton posted a graph showing Biden's plan creating substantially less CO2 than Trump's plan, and everyone laughing and saying it shows they're the same.

Yup. But GDP! Don't forget all our GDP.

Plastic production threatens to bust the carbon budget, story by 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050
due to the climate crisis, new study finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Pointing out the window to the Atlantic Ocean at one point, one attendee said, the former president claimed that offshore wind turbines break down when they are exposed to saltwater — though these projects are designed to resist saltwater corrosion.'

washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

huge news from the UK broke yesterday - the common earthworm won the inaugural invertebrate of the year contest *in a landslide* theguardian.com/environment/20…

It's absolutely crazy to have this air with all the other toddler shows, it's on such a different level

#lfc

The pedestrian plaza surrounded by shops & cafes: a basic, atomic unit of pretty much every European city; available virtually *nowhere* in the US.