I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children,
FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
Jeff Danziger, Rutland Herald

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I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children,
FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
Jeff Danziger, Rutland Herald
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
After Jan. 6, 2021, many Trump loyalists headed for the exits. But not Russell Vought. He told the president, I’m going to work night and day to get you back in the White House in four years. Then he and others began working on a plan: Project 2025. Listen to our latest "Paper Trail" episode 👇
Thanks for sharing this, and many thanks for your crucial work!
How journalists are keeping Ukrainians safe. Newsrooms in Canada have much to learn about countering Russia’s disinformation from their counterparts in Ukraine, by @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Rachel Pulfer
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com @jhrnews.bsky.social
🏆 Glad to report that my nominee for the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award just won the $100K
Once she was @mongabay.com's science advisor & is now a star bioacoustics researcher ✨
“It’s huge encouragement to know that work on #biodiversity #conservation in tropical forests is seen as important"
Thanks, Naomi. 💪
A major exposé of labor and environmental harms of intensive aquaculture. Major reports from UN, World Bank, OECD, and big sci journals don't paint this picture. The sector has big under-investigated problems & seems to be expanding faster than it can resolve them www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A sobering wake-up call: “There is a well-known threshold in firefighting beyond which a wildfire becomes unfightable by traditional means. Fires that have burned from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean to the Black Sea are now crossing that threshold routinely — and resoundingly.”
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage, said John Kenneth Galbraith. Now, @johnvaillant.bsky.social says, it's clear that the fossil-fuel-dependent status quo is degrading global ecosystems and our quality of life...
Thanks, Steve!
“These fast-moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past; they are the hazard lights of a heating climate, and they are flashing furiously.”
My latest on the implications of this summer's #wildfires.
Please read and share:
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
I don't think people appreciate how much the coming year is going to suck
I'd love to see an analysis of this kind for Ken Sim's Vancouver
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Suggested headline: Trump Intimidation of Critics Intensifies with Search of Congresswoman's Home
"Between 1961 and 1990, scientists found, the average daily temperature in the Congo Basin rose by about 0.9 degrees F, while the average number of hot days per year nearly doubled."
First article I've seen that addresses fire retardant impacts in a substantive way:
www.hcn.org/articles/wat... #wildfire
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For a corrective, read mine in the Times tomorrow ...