And ….It begins Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. livescience.com/animals/orcas/…

I could quote this all day but let’s start here: “The key difference is that Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the US prioritizes subsidizing people, with things like housing vouchers. One model focuses on supply, the other on demand.” nytimes.com/2023/05/23/mag…

Housing around the world has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? How might our lives be different if housing costs weren't so high? My latest—an economic, political, and philosophical argument—at The New York Times NYT Magazine 🏡💸 nytimes.com/2023/05/23/mag…

This is it. The best single piece I’ve read on social housing: how and why it works, why other proposals fail, and how it failed politically in the US. Enough with the gut reaction ideas, let’s do what actually works. Congratulations Francesca Mari is on Bluesky and The New York Times!

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-…

“a $100 increase in median rent was associated with a 9% increase in homelessness.” How we’re loving our towns to death in the western US. A mix of solutions and jaw dropping stats from High Country News

A very interesting study on the price-dampening effect of limited-profit housing on the free market non-profit-housing.wifo.ac.at From Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald at the Department of Housing Economics and Research at the Austrian Federation of Limited Profit Housing Associations

Climate inequality mapped. New research by Abi Deivanayagam she/her, Jason Hickel and others has produced striking maps that illustrate the immensely unequal responsibility for climate breakdown and unequal health outcomes between countries. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

When I started reporting on climate change, the prediction was the Arctic could be sea-ice-free in summer by the 2070s. Now? By the 2030s. nytimes.com/2023/06/06/cli…

In a dramatic win for justice, a jury ordered Chevron to pay $63m to a California man who contracted cancer after building a house on a hidden toxic waste pit. Thousands in Ecuador suffer a similar fate. Chevron sets the bar for corporate cruelty. pressherald.com/2023/06/09/jur…

#FindsFriday In a Neolithic dwelling at the site of Çatalhöyük in southern Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a limestone female figurine that is at least 8,000 years old. archaeology.org/issues/242-170…

My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature—my 16th, and my last as a senior writer. NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.

After ten years of environmental journalism, it now takes me a significant mental effort to look this year's news in the face. reuters.com/business/envir…

In the middle of the Saharan desert in Niger region; a 12000-10000 year old petroglyphs depicts giraffe, carved into rocks. #archaeohistories

Paging all Southwestern writers: For a few months, I'll be a contributing editor at High Country News, overseeing our SW desk along with @RakshaVasudevan and Kate Schimel. If you have a likely HCN story in AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, UT, or the borderlands, please pitch one or all of us.

Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day. Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/

#Greek minister Νότης Μηταράκης - Notis Mitarachi resigns after he was spotted vacationing while #wildfires rage politico.eu/article/greece…

Failing portable, SSDs. petapixel.com/2023/08/08/san…

2024 is the 100th year anniversary of Native Americans right to vote! Chavez Young places his Harris/Walz on his horse as he prepares to ride to the polls on the Navajo Reservation on November 5, 2024, in Kayenta, Arizona. Shot for The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…