The climate crisis has clearly arrived for everyone.

But while we are all confronting the same storm, we are in very different boats.

Just published a new article … and it’s a doozy: Scientists have found DDT in key species at the base of the deep-sea food web, raising concerns on how this toxic chemical might be infiltrating and circulating through our marine ecosystem latimes.com/environment/st…

This is totally fine.

'Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.'

Congrats, Virginia, on a terrific piece of reporting!

Exciting news to share! Many thanks to Civil Eats and Center for Health Journalism for supporting this story.

“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison

NEW: I traveled to Flint in anticipation of the 10 year anniversary of the start of the water crisis. I door knocked and spoke w/ folks at the library & local coney island spots. They all had the same response: The Flint Water Crisis is far from over.
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Huge news. Broadly speaking, this is not the state vs. farmers. This is the state protecting low-income people from dry drinking wells and sinking land that floods when it rains from billionaire growers who have over-exploited natural systems. Ian James latimes.com/environment/st…

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states trib.al/bDjjbYH

SCOOP: After California Governor Gavin Newsom passed a law making it easier for farmworkers to vote in union elections, ag business groups are investing millions in anti-union ads on Spanish radio stations across the state.
✍🏽 w/ Mathew Miranda The Sacramento Bee
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Yesterday, Science Magazine released a paper about what needs to be done to support tribally run green energy projects. My latest from grist
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I wrote about line-drying clothes, which can feel simultaneously like a chore, a privilege, a transgression, and an effective way to cut my family's carbon emissions.
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Ten straight months of record global temperatures. If that's not an emergency, I don't know what is.

Story by my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith: latimes.com/environment/st…

Thank you to Sheldon Whitehouse and Ed Markey for their tireless efforts to end the fossil-fuel era and save America's future.

Mind-blowing that the Democratic majority is not right there with them.

Wheat is down 15%, oilseed rape/canola is down 28%, & winter barley is down 22%

These kinds of farm losses have been taking place all over the developing world in recent years. Will it move the needle with world leaders now that it's happening in the UK?

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Dairy operations feed chicken litter to cows so they can get a growth boost from the drugs left over in the litter. Growth promoting chicken shit spreading #H5N1 to cattle. Hell of system they've built.

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''Big trees are the most important bar of gold on the planet' says Meg Lowman. She was the first scientist to begin studying forest canopies in 1970s. Now aged 70, she’s pursuing goal of safeguarding the future of 10 of world’s most biodiverse forests.' dw.com/en/saving-the-…

'The Forest Service says that by clear-cutting a nearly 1,000-yr-old forest, they’ll teach it to be resilient?”

Just out: this superb, balanced long-read by Alexis Marie Adams, on the battles over old-growth forest in Montana & beyond. Ramifications for us all.
scientificamerican.com/article/can-fo…

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay to all who celebrate (i.e., everyone who likes to drink water, eat food, catch fish, watch birds, live in a stable climate, and not get swept away by floods and/or immolated by wildfire).

How the last 20 years of Sierra snowpack stack up — in one superb graphic by Sean Greene latimes.com/projects/calif… Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics