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drhershkowitz.bsky.social
@drhershkowitz.bsky.social
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Environmentalist. Sustainability Advisor NY Yankees, NBA, Pirates, Former Senior Scientist NRDC, Founding Chair Sport & Sustainability Int’l, Co-Founder & Past Pres Green Sports Alliance.
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Listening to a book is not the same as reading a book @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bpl.boston.gov
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Opinion | Have You Listened to a Good Book Lately?
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December 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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“Every drop of water on the planet carries chemical traces of where it’s been, whether that’s a river, a melting glacier or a cloud…Analyzing those traces helps to better understand the complex paths that water takes between the Arctic Ocean & the North Atlantic.” @noaa.gov @billmckibben.bsky.social
Dodging Icebergs and Storms on the Hunt for an Ocean Tipping Point
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December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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“Stadiums are secular megachurches, where believers gather to share communion, to exalt and mourn, and to don the vestments of faith” & where “Every inch of space is monetized.” @sportpositive.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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"Children playing in their yards are struggling to breathe. The air is filled with wood dust. Residents endure asthma, bronchitis & cardiovascular disease across the U.S. South and rely on oxygen tanks to get through the day because of pollution from wood-pellet biomass plants." #biomass @dsawsp.org
Foreign Energy Companies Have No Home in Our Forests | Opinion
Domestic air-quality policy should reduce, not worsen, pollution for the very people it is meant to protect.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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RIP: “a sociologist who examined the aftermaths of floods, nuclear accidents, hurricanes and chemical spills to illustrate how disasters damage what he called the “tissues of communal life,” inflicting collective trauma that can outlast physical wounds” @appli.org www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Kai Erikson, Sociologist Who Probed Invisible Scars of Disasters, Dies at 94
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December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“Many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over. Ten years later it has roared back stronger than ever. The oil, gas & coal industries continue to downplay scientific consensus that burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet.”@sportpositive.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
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December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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“Belson has covered #NFL for years. His unique access & firm grasp of football culture have produced “Every Day Is Sunday,” a polished, entertaining account of what he aptly calls “an immensely profitable American religion.”@theathletic.com
@sportbusiness.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Who Calls the Shots in the N.F.L.? Three Guys Who Don’t Always Get Along.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Listening is not reading. I am delighted dyslexic people listen to books but that’s not reading. I reread sentences, write notes in margins, pause to contemplate ideas & look up words. I can’t drive when I read @britishlibrary.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
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November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. @realestatenews.com @realestatechick.bsky.social @realestateportugal.bsky.social @sportpositive.bsky.social @climatenews.bsky.social @climateconnections.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org
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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico @nrdc.org @earthjustice.org @foeus.bsky.social @biodivoxford.bsky.social @sportpositive.bsky.social #UNFCCC
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Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico
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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When inflation was less than what it is now Rs were all over it & put Ds on defense even when not deserved but the Ds in DC don’t know how fight @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Trump Turns to Affordability Message Amid Economic Frustration
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November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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They came from the Andes in Ecuador & the Amazon rainforest in Peru. They were joined by activists from the Brazilian forests & savannas. Together, they numbered in the thousands, young & old, women & men.” @iwrising.bsky.social @indigenousja.bsky.social @hrw.org
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Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil
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November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to soar to record highs in 2025 and show no signs of declining overall” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c... @insideclimatenews.org @climatenews.bsky.social @climateconnections.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @unep.org
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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“In a major new report the Int’l energy agency has a different message about a peak in fossil fuel use: It’s complicated.” #UNFCCC @insideclimatenews.org @climateconnections.bsky.social @climate.noaa.gov @michaelemann.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @unep.org
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c...
There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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“leaders of America’s biggest companies once made pledges to stop polluting, fund the energy transition & called for laws to reduce planet-warming emissions. But at this year’s climate summit no prominent American leader made the trip” @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot “Most of her neighbors didn’t have electricity. But she did.” @billmckibben.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @energycommerce.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social
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After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot
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November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
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November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The U.N.’s Emissions Gap Report measures the disparity between what world leaders have promised to do to limit the rise in global temperatures and what they are actually doing @sportpositive.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/c...
U.N. Sees Slight Progress on Climate Action, Partly Offset by the U.S.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Ban sports betting: “Gambling doesn’t just sponsor sports games. It shapes them, deciding which matchups are worth watching & how players are covered. Gambling doesn’t just buy ads. It owns sports networks that prod fans to bet ever more.” @sportpositive.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America
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November 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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“Marathon runners consistently finished slower in cities with higher levels of dangerous particles in the air, researchers found” @nyrr.bsky.social @sportpositive.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...
Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time
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November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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“If radicalism is the label affixed to all resistance to Trump, why not embrace radicalism? Resistance to despotism is innately respectable—the task is to make it politically potent by connecting it to the discontent that Trump exploits.” @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act" | Nice article on our new #Bioscience article by @saschapare.bsky.social for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act
Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to prevent that from happening, scientists say.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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She Made Sure Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public. “I was fired in February. It was torturous. I mourn the career that I had, and that I had worked so hard to get.” Corina Allen was tsunami program manager @noaa.gov where she improved early warning systems @unep.org
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She Made Sure That Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public
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October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too. “Microbes need protection for many reasons, including the fact that other species — indeed, entire ecosystems — depend on their well-being.” @popsci.com @pnas.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...
Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“The findings are a bracing example of the toll that climate change is wreaking on the world’s coral reefs, which support an estimated quarter of marine species, including fish that provide crucial protein & income in coastal communities” @whoi.edu @climate.noaa.gov

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Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs
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October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM