For all you enviro journalists out there: I highly recommend this amazing Metcalf Institute workshop. Deadline is approaching. metcalfinstitute.org/2024awj/

More than 90% of global heating has been absorbed by the oceans. The current rate of warming is leading to the biggest marine mass extinction in 250 million years. If the oceans die, we die. insideclimatenews.org/news/28042022/…

I'm late to this, but I love that The New York Times did this round-up from small publications, covering towns & regions that (despite the vacuum of coverage) are still getting some light
nytimes.com/2023/12/22/bri… A special nod to LymeLine.com , covering my first-ever beat

We know very little about enigmatic squid and how climate change will impact them, but we're fishing the heck out of them anyway—and that matters for almost everything that lives in the world's oceans insideclimatenews.org/news/08122023/… @insideclimatenews Ian Urbina

First drought. Now flooding. The Horn of Africa and its people have been hit by successive double whammy's— both amplified by climate change, new research from World Weather Attribution confirms. worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change…

The new National Climate Assessment is the first US government report to say that eating less beef is a good way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Remarkable, really. insideclimatenews.org/news/14112023/…

Walking a 'tightrope between optimism and urgency.' Here's Inside Climate News's all-team take on the new National Climate Assessment. insideclimatenews.org/news/14112023/…

There's so much to unpack in the new National Climate Assessment, most of it dire and worrisome. But it addresses environmental justice like no previous report. Inside Climate News's all-team effort is here: insideclimatenews.org/news/14112023/…

An hour wait for the shuttle and another hour to get the car. Way to go ⁦Budget Car Rental⁩ Lots of unhappy customers at LAX.

Nearly 3/4's of crop insurance payouts—just under 120 billion with a B—linked to climate-driven weather events over the last 22 years. Huge numbers from a new EWG report by Anne Schechinger ewg.org/news-insights/…

The world -- and the US -- are backsliding on hunger, despite big awards and dialogues Chris Clayton reports dtnpf.com/agriculture/we…

A new paper by Alan Wm. Wolff and me.
Food insecurity: What can the world trading system do about it? piie.com/publications/p… via Peterson Institute IFPRI

My new piece for EWG: Millionaire CEOs run companies getting billions from the federal Crop Insurance Program. One corporation that owns a crop insurance company pays their co-CEOs over $24 million a year. These corporations get billions in taxpayer $. ewg.org/news-insights/…

Ahead of Summit of the Three Basins a new report from Forest Declaration Assessment finds the worlds forests are still disappearing, especially old growth.
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“All told, a staggering 41 percent of land in the continental US is used for meat, dairy, and egg production.” Wow. vox.com/future-perfect…

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Newly uncovered documents show how hard Arizona and other Western states worked in the 1950s and 60s to ensure tribal nations didn't have easy access to Colorado River water -- a pattern that critics say continues today: propublica.org/article/states… via Mark Olalde Anna V. Smith

More than 60 million acres of inland wetlands are now vulnerable to backfilling and pollution under the new #SCOTUS interpretation of the 'Waters of the US' rule. Great reporting from Delaney Dryfoos thelensnola.org/2023/10/18/lou…

There are so many stunning details in this amazing piece. China has become the world's fishing superpower in a bid for superiority on the high seas. The environmental & human damage are incalculable. By Ian Urbina The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Read all the way through and get a glimpse of hope. Better and more nimble policies can help prevent whale strikes, which are rising and going vastly unreported as whales adapt to warming waters. insideclimatenews.org/news/10102023/…