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#NASAWebb captured the top of iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail, with a new view that focuses on the illuminated edge of the nebula’s distinctive structure. (1/5) 🧵

Last week Uproot Project published this pieces that I wrote about my experience at Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) annual conference this year in Philly. I am honored and grateful for this opportunity! 🌎❤️ Please, feel free to read and share. uprootproject.org/field-notes/lu…

Loons 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 pop 👏🏼 icons 👏🏼

Seriously, everyone wants to collab with this bird (including Doja, Nicki, Gaga + more). I had a lot of fun diving deep into music history and loon lore to try to figure out why:

audubon.org/magazine/how-c…

i wrote about student organizers calling for divestment from both israeli apartheid & fossil fuels, & how these two demands are fusing into one 'clarion call'

feat Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Yale Endowment Justice Coalition Olivia Katbi 🌹 Phyllis Bennis Matt Leonard Noel Healy

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Space has a trash problem (perhaps, we are the problem?) and NASA is determined to do something about it.
Fun to work with Ramin Skibba on this one!
nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

It's Earth Day! Last year, I sat down with some of Puerto Rico environmental activists to talk about the importance of protecting the archipelago's beaches.

youtube.com/watch?v=e11YT0…

Voyager 1, the iconic spacecraft that gave us the “pale blue dot” image of Earth, is still going strong! It sent back usable data to NASA engineers, and I’m hoping it can resume its interstellar science mission soon.

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Gonna be annoying forever sorry

NEW: Environmentalist groups and neighbors of Arecibo sue Dept of Natural Resources, Municipality of Arecibo, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, among others to guarantee public access to Cueva del Indio Natural Reserve.

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eclipse beer goggles on

While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event using new technology developed by astronomers.

(I rarely say this, but) BREAKING: The 6 incarcerated men who sued the NY Dept of Corrections will now be allowed to watch Monday's solar eclipse. But for now, the rest of the incarcerated population is out of luck. I followed up for Hell Gate *subscribe today!* hellgatenyc.com/incarcerated-n…

My latest for Defector! Solar Eclipses: No Longer Scary, Still Astonishingly Cool defector.com/solar-eclipses…

If you'll be at #SEJ2024 in Philly next week, stop by grist and Uproot Project's happy hour on Thursday, April 4! RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/grist-the-up…

Pretty startling map of what our skies will look like if a proposed new 65,000 satellites are launched

Source: nature.com/articles/s4189…

Caribbean reporters have no bandwidth for this right now:
'A super-charged hurricane season could spawn a near-record number of storms in the Atlantic this year, and forecasters may even run out of names for storms amid a frenzy of tropical systems.'
accuweather.com/en/hurricane/e…