INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning feature-length film about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district — on landfill, at sea level. vimeo.com/716779520

Hey North Shore and Connecticut friends, My film, The Petal Pusher, is going to be showing at the @NewburyportF Documentary Film Festival on Saturday and on then Sunday at the @MysticFilmFest. Links to tickets available petalpusherfilm.com/screenin…

Agency says sea turtle eggs laid on California beaches are a first for the US West Coast apnews.com/article/californi…

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years apnews.com/article/climate-c…

Pushback Mounts Against Trump’s Attacks on the Endangered Species Act Several lawsuits and a bipartisan letter from former agency directors condemn the Trump administration’s gutting of habitat protections for imperiled animals and plants. insideclimatenews.org/news/1…

In Florida, textbook publishers are minimizing or removing climate change coverage npr.org/2026/09/15/nx-s1-594…

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way' apnews.com/article/climate-c…

At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves The true figure is likely to be much higher, as it only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals. theguardian.com/environment/…

Earth is simmering in its hottest water temps on record, and that's bad for fish and us apnews.com/article/hottest-o…

New York City’s infrastructure was designed for a climate that no longer exists.

Army Corps plan: Fortify Boston's coast for climate resilience bostonglobe.com/2026/08/14/o…

The world’s oceans are reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air go.nature.com/4qgxJ9g

‘South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, told his cabinet the extreme weather was “unlike anything we have experienced before”. “We need to make efforts for a fundamental overhaul of the national crisis system,” he said, “since this extreme weather is becoming the new normal.”’

Contiguous US breaks its record for hottest month ever recorded, eclipsing Dust Bowl era NOAA says. @DrJeffMasters says: "If we’re exceeding records from The Dust Bowl, that says that we’re in deep trouble.” apnews.com/article/hottest-m…

Appeals court says fishermen's claim in lobster defamation suit raises First Amendment questions apnews.com/article/maine-lob…

The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs.

Before 2016, no more than 10,000 hectares burned each year, according to Copernicus. Before this year, the previous high was 66,000. forest-fire.emergency.copern…

Nothing to see here, folks. Keep believing fossil fuel.

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

Chinese coal use dropped last year. American coal use increased last year.

"In the Whale" will be returning to Cape Cinema on July 5! I'll be there for a Q&A. Please help spread the word to anyone who might be interested in seeing the film on Cape Cod. Tickets here: capecinema.org/production/in…