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Alec Luhn
@alecluhn.bsky.social
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Pulitzer Center 🌊 reporting fellow | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🐄
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · Nov 14
'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...
sjawards.aaas.org/news/2024-aa...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?
Streams in Alaska are turning orange with iron and sulfuric acid. Scientists are trying to figure out why
www.scientificamerican.com
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 26m
The Reform party seems to have already won the battle on climate by scaring the UK government away from even talking about it.
Starmer is reportedly suppressing his intel agencies' report on climate threats.
Meanwhile some advisers are telling him to skip COP30.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?
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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 1d
Kendall Roy in a suit and baseball cap
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 1d
It's crazy that Trump invested $35.6m of taxpayer dollars in the company behind the Ambler Road mining project, as Alaska Native tribes & conservation NGOs have long been suing to block it, which would wipe out that investment. Probably won't happen, but still risky alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/06/t...
Trump approves appeal for Ambler Road project, reversing Biden administration's rejection | Alaska Beacon
The proposed road, being developed by Alaska’s state-owned investment bank, would open access to a mining region in northwest Alaska.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d
Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s attacks are launching their own climate information portals.
Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts
Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.
www.motherjones.com
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d
Imagine not portraying this as a crime.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d
Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 3d
The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 2d
If CBS News is biased, making Bari Weiss editor-in-chief will surely just swing it to the opposite extreme www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
www.npr.org
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 3d
The Aletsch glacier, the largest in Europe, has now retreated 1.4 miles.
Mountain glaciers in total lost 450 billion tonnes of ice in 2024. Not good for streams & rivers.
Great photos here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 5d
Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...
www.newscientist.com
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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d
Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.”

Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 8d
Trump administration wants to roll back regulations on HFCs (very potent greenhouse gases) OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE APPLIANCE INDUSTRY.
Here’s why one industry is worried about Trump’s latest climate rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it would rewrite a Biden-era rule aimed at limiting hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 13d
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 13d
If you voted for him, you've done this.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 13d
I'm still yet to encounter anything particularly convincing on this - it seems like a big expense that at best might solve a few edge cases while introducing more. Putting the civil liberties argument aside, it just doesn't seem like a useful thing for the government to be doing
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 13d
Historically (as in, when I was a literal teenager) I was anti-ID cards, now I have a latent distrust but really my general feeling is apathy coupled with an assumption that any large government IT project will go poorly. What are the pro-ID card arguments I should be reading to change my mind?
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 13d
Rat activity is ⬆️ 400% in Washington DC, 300% in San Francisco, 180% in Toronto & 160% in New York.
A big reason is climate change: Rats have gotten esp numerous in cities that warmed more, since they breed better in warm conditions
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities
Rats are multiplying at speed in urban areas. So, what's really behind the boom - and is it now unstoppable?
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 13d
The latest report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at PIK has confirmed that Ocean Acidification has now been breached. This means that 7 of the 9 planetary boundaries have now been crossed.

#planetaryboundaries #PIK #oceans #oceanacidification #climatechange
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 14d
Anybody remember the So Much Guardian account on Twitter?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d
You be the judge: should my daughter pay for the vase she broke in our holiday villa?
You be the judge: should my daughter pay for the vase she broke in our holiday villa?
Marlene believes Dani will learn a valuable life lesson by paying for her mistakes. Dani thinks the charge is ridiculous. You decide: who’s gone potty?
www.theguardian.com
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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 15d
🔥🔥MASSIVE ATTACK on russia
Last night

No electricity in Lgov, Kursk region.
Explosions and shelling in Taganrog, Belgorod, and Valuyki.

russian media admitted: dozens of UAVs were striking other regions too.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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