John R. Platt
@johnrplatt.bsky.social
Editor, The Revelator @therevelator.org. Covering the extinction crisis, wildlife, climate change and environmental justice. https://linktr.ee/johnrplatt
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Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
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Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
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Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help • The Revelator
Advice to help recharge your momentum and resilience makes these books must-reads for anyone who feels helpless or hopeless about climate chaos.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
More: therevelator.org/climate-an...
#ClimateAction
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Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
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The sign in front of the van parked just off Route 1 in Lincoln County, Maine, displayed a simple message in big, hand-written letters: “Eels. $2,000/lb.”
Read more: https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Read more: https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Can an International Treaty Save the American Eel? • The Revelator
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The sign in front of the van parked just off Route 1 in Lincoln County, Maine, displayed a simple message in big, hand-written letters: “Eels. $2,000/lb.”
Read more: https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Read more: https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
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“They are so endearing, and their delicate newborns simply slip into my palm,” Monora gushes affectionately. She’s been nurturing and feeding these animals, among the world’s rarest mammals, for the past 28 years.
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig • The Revelator
Tiny pygmy hogs almost went extinct a few decades ago, but a dedicated conservation team is helping give them a second chance.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“They are so endearing, and their delicate newborns simply slip into my palm,” Monora gushes affectionately. She’s been nurturing and feeding these animals, among the world’s rarest mammals, for the past 28 years.
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
“They are so endearing, and their delicate newborns simply slip into my palm,” Monora gushes affectionately. She’s been nurturing and feeding these animals, among the world’s rarest mammals, for the past 28 years.
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig • The Revelator
Tiny pygmy hogs almost went extinct a few decades ago, but a dedicated conservation team is helping give them a second chance.
therevelator.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“They are so endearing, and their delicate newborns simply slip into my palm,” Monora gushes affectionately. She’s been nurturing and feeding these animals, among the world’s rarest mammals, for the past 28 years.
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
Read more about these #conservation heroes: therevelator.org/mathchmaking...
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Evolving takes patience 🐟🦎🐒🤖
My latest for @therevelator.org
My latest for @therevelator.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Evolving takes patience 🐟🦎🐒🤖
My latest for @therevelator.org
My latest for @therevelator.org
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Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig -- an amazing story about the cutest critically endangered species. Read about the efforts to boost their populations: https://therevelator.org/mathchmaking-pygmy-hogs/
Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig • The Revelator
Tiny pygmy hogs almost went extinct a few decades ago, but a dedicated conservation team is helping give them a second chance.
therevelator.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig -- an amazing story about the cutest critically endangered species. Read about the efforts to boost their populations: https://therevelator.org/mathchmaking-pygmy-hogs/
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New Musk policy on X exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
New Musk policy on X exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
New Musk policy on X exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
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November 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
New Musk policy on X exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
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Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of the iconic American eel. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline. https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Can an International Treaty Save the American Eel? • The Revelator
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline.
therevelator.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of the iconic American eel. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline. https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
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ICYMI: Earlier this year, I wrote about the collaborative approach taken by the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, and how it lets them write giant global-scale reports with hundreds of experts from all over the world. therevelator.org/global-conse...
What Does It Take to Write a Global Conservation Report? A New Assessment of Sharks Offers Answers • The Revelator
A two-year effort reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ICYMI: Earlier this year, I wrote about the collaborative approach taken by the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, and how it lets them write giant global-scale reports with hundreds of experts from all over the world. therevelator.org/global-conse...
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ICYMI: By me in January
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals • The Revelator
The waters around the U.S. are home to threatened species who need conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ICYMI: By me in January
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
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In two powerful new graphic novels, Peter Kuper tackles climate change, disappearing insects, and other tough environmental topics — but gives us reasons to avoid despair. https://therevelator.org/peter-kuper-insectopolis/
A Cartoonist Finds Hope Amid the Apocalypse(s) • The Revelator
In two powerful new graphic novels, Peter Kuper tackles climate change, disappearing insects, and other tough environmental topics — but gives us reasons to avoid despair.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In two powerful new graphic novels, Peter Kuper tackles climate change, disappearing insects, and other tough environmental topics — but gives us reasons to avoid despair. https://therevelator.org/peter-kuper-insectopolis/
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Let’s Rename the Day After Thanksgiving ‘Extinction Friday’ https://therevelator.org/extinction-friday/
Let’s Rename the Day After Thanksgiving ‘Extinction Friday’ • The Revelator
The annual Black Friday ode to overconsumption sits at the core of our destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. We can flip the script.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Let’s Rename the Day After Thanksgiving ‘Extinction Friday’ https://therevelator.org/extinction-friday/
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My latest endangered species article for @therevelator.org includes a story I've wanted to tell for more than 13 years...
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of the iconic American eel. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline. https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Can an International Treaty Save the American Eel? • The Revelator
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline.
therevelator.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My latest endangered species article for @therevelator.org includes a story I've wanted to tell for more than 13 years...
My latest endangered species article for @therevelator.org includes a story I've wanted to tell for more than 13 years...
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of the iconic American eel. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline. https://therevelator.org/cites-american-eel/
Can an International Treaty Save the American Eel? • The Revelator
Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline.
therevelator.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My latest endangered species article for @therevelator.org includes a story I've wanted to tell for more than 13 years...
Coming tomorrow: a story I've wanted to tell for 13 years...
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Coming tomorrow: a story I've wanted to tell for 13 years...
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The newest ethylene plant in the US has had a few problems with pollution and explosions. Not good for ones health.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The newest ethylene plant in the US has had a few problems with pollution and explosions. Not good for ones health.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
"When they built it, it was meant for job employment, help boost Beaver County. But instead, it's kind of been more negative than positive, it seems like," Matich said.
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“A 50th anniversary of The Monkey Wrench Gang couldn’t be timelier,” says Doug Peacock, who inspired the character of George Hayduke in the novel. “Our American wilderness...has never been in greater peril." https://therevelator.org/doug-peacock-monkey-wrench-gang/
Doug Peacock, the real ‘George Hayduke,’ Looks Back on 50 Years of The Monkey Wrench Gang • The Revelator
Now a famed grizzly conservationist, Peacock served as Edward Abbey’s inspiration for the novel’s most pivotal, piercing character.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“A 50th anniversary of The Monkey Wrench Gang couldn’t be timelier,” says Doug Peacock, who inspired the character of George Hayduke in the novel. “Our American wilderness...has never been in greater peril." https://therevelator.org/doug-peacock-monkey-wrench-gang/
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Here at #COP30, attendees are lauding AI as an antidote to the climate crisis. While AI can deliver benefits, countries must address AI’s grave costs to our climate, water, & planet.
Happy to unpack this w/ @democracynow.org @amygoodman.bsky.social
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Happy to unpack this w/ @democracynow.org @amygoodman.bsky.social
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“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Here at #COP30, attendees are lauding AI as an antidote to the climate crisis. While AI can deliver benefits, countries must address AI’s grave costs to our climate, water, & planet.
Happy to unpack this w/ @democracynow.org @amygoodman.bsky.social
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/j...
Happy to unpack this w/ @democracynow.org @amygoodman.bsky.social
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Celebrating the 50-year mark of the rebel spirit that has shaped Hawaiʻi’s conservation pulse—just like The Monkey Wrench Gang ignited awareness, the courageous landing on Kahoʻolawe in 1976 embodied that Abbey ethos: armed not with wrenches but with aloha-ʻāina, defiance and hope. 🌊🌿#OceanHoptimism
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Celebrating the 50-year mark of the rebel spirit that has shaped Hawaiʻi’s conservation pulse—just like The Monkey Wrench Gang ignited awareness, the courageous landing on Kahoʻolawe in 1976 embodied that Abbey ethos: armed not with wrenches but with aloha-ʻāina, defiance and hope. 🌊🌿#OceanHoptimism
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What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters #COP30 #climatechange https://therevelator.org/celebrity-catastrophes/
What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters • The Revelator
When catastrophe becomes celebrity, we stop witnessing and start scrolling, turning suffering into spectacle. But we can break that cycle.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters #COP30 #climatechange https://therevelator.org/celebrity-catastrophes/
"Things happen."???????
Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist
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November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Things happen."???????
Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Conflict between humans and wildlife—and especially, carnivores—may increase during times of drought, a new #ScienceAdvances analysis of droughts in California suggests. https://scim.ag/47PutKx
Human-wildlife conflict is amplified during periods of drought
Public reports of conflict with wildlife increase during extended periods of lower precipitation.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Conflict between humans and wildlife—and especially, carnivores—may increase during times of drought, a new #ScienceAdvances analysis of droughts in California suggests. https://scim.ag/47PutKx
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The next Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) starts in a few days. There are lots of shark issues on the docket. Read my explainer here:
therevelator.org/cites-sharks/ 🧪🦑🌎🦈
therevelator.org/cites-sharks/ 🧪🦑🌎🦈
Can a Powerful International Wildlife Conservation Meeting Help Save Sharks? • The Revelator
Seven proposals at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference of the parties would benefit up to 70 species of sharks…if they pass.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The next Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) starts in a few days. There are lots of shark issues on the docket. Read my explainer here:
therevelator.org/cites-sharks/ 🧪🦑🌎🦈
therevelator.org/cites-sharks/ 🧪🦑🌎🦈
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Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Federal Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Federal Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...