Environment reporter @newscientist | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄

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'Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?' won a Kavli 🙌 I'm humbled & thankful to @AAAS to be recognized with the oldest US science journalism award. Covering climate science feels more high-stakes than ever before... Award: sjawards.aaas.org/news/2024-… Story: scientificamerican.com/artic…
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The burning sign for Domodedovo, one of Russia’s largest airports, just kind of says it all
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Hard to ignore the war when the tops of fuel tanks are being popped off like Pringles lids in Moscow. Explosions have been ringing out, apartment buildings evacuated, airports closed
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Ira Putilova is a Russian documentary film director with asylum in the UK who has been trapped in Armenia because of a wanted notice from Russia—please consider signing a petition to help them get back home @UKChange change.org/p/help-ira-putilo…
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Btw, Ira is a UK citizen traveling on a UK passport. And nonetheless has been trapped in Armenia by a Russian wanted notice
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Alec Luhn retweeted
LATEST DATA | Solar power has overtaken coal power in Texas In the twelve months to March 2026, Texas solar (68.3 TWh) produced more electricity than coal (66.8 TWh). Just five years ago, coal was still more than 7x larger than solar.
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‘Refreezing the Arctic’ won a National Headliner Award 🙌 Big thanks to @pulitzercenter @sciam @markfischetti @j_aldred 🙏 headlinerawards.org/2026/04/…
I went to Cambridge Bay 🇨🇦 near where the Franklin expedition was trapped in the ice & starved. Now the ice is melting so fast a geoengineering startup's trying to thicken it. It's controversial but the UK gov just gave $13m. (Vid by Taylor Roades) @SciAm: scientificamerican.com/artic…
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For nearly a century, @washingtonpost foreign correspondents have been on the frontlines of wars, pandemics, economic crises, civil uprisings and so much more. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch and share. @JeffBezos #SaveThePost
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Alec Luhn retweeted
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador:   President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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Not strategic, not legal, not popular:
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My newsletter is out, with stories about Trump's breakup of NCAR & pointless Alaska gas pipeline, "irreversible" Arctic warming & manslaughter charges against an Austrian mountaineer. Oh yeah, also whales & dolphins & "grolar" bears icemushroom.substack.com/p/d…
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This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. @AGPamBondi is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
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“Jesus himself, 25 comes out of the blue and makes a play” was how Evan Williams described this play by Kristan Nixon
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If the Kremlin says the US national security strategy is "largely consistent with our vision," It's probably not a good US national security strategy bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvd…
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Personal news 🚨: I’ve started a 10-month gig as environment news reporter at New Scientist, the most popular weekly science & tech magazine I'm in the office on a mobility scooter as I recover from a broken femur & frostbite on a mountain in Norway—thank you for all the support!
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I’m also starting a monthly Substack newsletter called Ice Mushroom, which is the name for a giant blob of rime ice that can form on windward rock faces. Please subscribe to follow my stories, as well as interesting news about icy & mountainous places: icemushroom.substack.com
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My inaugural monthly newsletter is out, with some stories I wrote about COP30, Antarctica & cloud seeding in Iran. Plus stories I didn’t write about a twins experiment to learn about Mallory on Everest, among others. icemushroom.substack.com/p/n…
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Hard to think of a better image of how blindly humanity is heading into climate breakdown
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40+ glaciologists just published a paper calling geoengineering to save the Arctic & Antarctic a dangerous distraction. But other scientists argue that with ice melting we at least need to research them. I told CBC about sea ice thickening in Nunavut cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-4…
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