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This “deal,” as some participants call the speaker selection process, is a yearslong conversation that involves political influencers across the city, and it plucks all the strings that connect them to one another. cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/…

There's a lot of fascinating reporting in this piece on the hotel industry post-migrant crisis by Rebecca Baird-Remba. For example: Average daily room rates were $318 last year ! cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/04…

In my newsletter this month I wrote about some fascinating research that identifies what is probably the deepest effect of human activity on Earth: northeastsouthwest.substack.com/p/how-the-anth…

Some microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on methane generated by geothermal heat rising from deep below Earth’s surface. These extreme habitats could be useful for studying how life could survive on other ice worlds. 🧪 newscientist.com/article/247681…

Communities around the world trying to manage toxic cyanobacteria blooms may have another factor to worry about: too much artificial light. 🧪 newscientist.com/article/247709…

2025 has seen record low sea ice in both the Antarctic and Arctic. It was disturbing to learn for our New Scientist polar special how this isn't only a disaster for frozen ecosystems, but has consequences for the global climate. newscientist.com/article/247358…

This could be a big deal for the hundreds of climate lawsuits underway around the world. Researchers link emissions from specific fossil fuel companies to trillions of dollars in damages. “I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." newscientist.com/article/247769…

Ants, from Gondwana to the world! 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🌍 newscientist.com/article/247784…

Earthquakes may generate as much or more hydrogen underground than other water-rock reactions. This hydrogen could be an overlooked source of energy for deep life, as well as for people aiming to extract the gas as an alternative fuel. 🧪🔌💡 newscientist.com/article/247799…

The Trump administration has dismissed all of the researchers working on the next US National Climate Assessment, a move likely to delay – if not prevent – the completion of the US government's main climate report. newscientist.com/article/247845…

Microplastics are pervasive even in the deepest parts of the ocean. Researchers are concerned this could slow down the ocean's ability to sequester carbon via sinking plankton. 🧪🌊 newscientist.com/article/247847…

Over the past two decades, swathes of Eurasia have seen a spike in extreme heatwaves followed by droughts. Thanks to tree rings we now this spike is way above anything seen in at least the past 300 years. 🧪 newscientist.com/article/247869…

The expansive network of fiber optic cables carrying the internet is increasingly being used to measure seismic waves constantly vibrating through Earth's interior. For New Scientist this week, I explored how these fibers are changing our view underground. newscientist.com/article/247886…

Zohran Mamdani lookalikes parade out in Prospect Park

A billion-year-old rift in the middle of North America has made eastern Kansas one of the busiest frontiers in the global search for natural accumulations of underground hydrogen fuel. I visited one of the first sites to start drilling.🧪🔌💡 newscientist.com/article/248399…

A analysis of crop yields suggests that each degree Celsius of warming by 2100 will reduce the food available per person by about 121 kilocalories per day. With 3°C warming “that works out to giving up breakfast for everyone”, says Andrew Hultgren. newscientist.com/article/248471…

A British biotech firm says it has collected genetic data from a million new microbial species living in extreme environments to train a "ChatGPT of biology". newscientist.com/article/248432…

“What if the rockets explode at the surface?” says Yu. “That’s a valid concern.” newscientist.com/article/248444…

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. newscientist.com/article/248535…