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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Aug 28

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : On the 20th anniversary of the costliest American storm, experts reflect on the resulting federal law now protecting pets from climate disasters. atmos.earth/hurricane-ka...

Hurricane Katrina Made the US Rethink Pet Rescue | Atmos

On the 20th anniversary of the storm, experts reflect on the resulting federal law now protecting pets from climate disasters.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jul 17

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From snail mucin to IV drips, longevity products and wellness supplements come at a high environmental cost. In reality, they’re doing little to fix the real threats to human health. atmos.earth/surprising-c...

The Surprising Cost of Our Quest to Defy Aging | Atmos

From snail mucin to IV drips, longevity products and wellness supplements come at a high environmental cost.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jul 15

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : For Dr. Wendy Johnson, the climate crisis and the health care crisis are the same story. Her new book, Kinship Medicine, offers a blueprint for a more connected, ecological form of care. atmos.earth/the-climate-...

The Climate Crisis Is Wrecking Our Health. This Doctor Has a Radical Cure. | Atmos

In her new book, Kinship Medicine, Dr. Wendy Johnson offers a blueprint for a more connected, ecological form of care.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jul 3

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : This piece is part of a co-publishing partnership between Atmos and Unthinkable, where a professional, climate-aware therapist responds to your questions about navigating the emotional toll of the climate crisis. atmos.earth/tools-to-cop...

Tools to Cope With Climate Anxiety (and Your Climate-Denying Uncle) | Atmos

A climate-aware therapist answers your questions on how to cope with fear, talk to skeptics, and keep showing up.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jul 2

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Instead of exhibiting characteristics as a unified whole, Earth represents a vastly more complex—and less coordinated—system. atmos.earth/from-ant-col...

From Ant Colonies to Gaia: The Myth of the Superorganism | Atmos

Instead of exhibiting characteristics as a unified whole, Earth represents a vastly more complex—and less coordinated—system.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jul 1

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : While the United States celebrates independence, millions are denied basic dignity. A Lakota tradition of radical equality offers a different perspective that sees all people as part of a whole. atmos.earth/this-july-4-...

This July 4, Ask Yourself: Who Counts as Free? | Atmos

While the U.S celebrates independence, millions are denied basic dignity. A Lakota tradition of radical equality offers a different approach

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 30

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : The fall of the Assad regime has offered the Syrian people a revolutionary moment to rebuild with the environment in mind. atmos.earth/syrians-want...

Syrians Want a Green Future. Can Their New Government Deliver? | Atmos

The fall of the Assad regime has offered the Syrian people a revolutionary moment to rebuild with the environment in mind.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 30

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : At California’s Salton Sea, where cracked shores meet chemical haze, Lío Mehiel performs a ritual act of resilience in the face of toxicity. atmos.earth/in-photos-an...

In Photos: An Artist’s Reckoning With a Vanishing Sea | Atmos

At California’s Salton Sea, where cracked shores meet chemical haze, Lío Mehiel performs a ritual act of resilience in the face of toxicity.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 27

Subscribe to The Overview newsletter atmos.earth/newsletter/

Newsletter | Atmos

Atmos is an exploration of climate and culture, a biannual magazine curated by a growing ecosystem of adventurers, creatives, and journalists dedicated to pioneering progress around the world.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 27

Catch up on Willow's previous meditations on nature atmos.earth/topic/climat...

The Overview | Atmos

Welcome to The Overview newsletter, a weekly meditation on nature from Editor-in-Chief Willow Defebaugh. From the reciprocity of trees to the long view of volcanoes to the patience of spiders, discove...

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 27

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In this week's Overview newsletter, our editor-in-chief Willow Defebaugh follows in the creative foosteps of foxes atmos.earth/following-in...

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · Jun 18

Funeral services like burial and cremation can have high environmental costs.

But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2.

Photos: Resting Reef

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 26

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Across the Global South, a new generation of designers is reimagining architectural failure as a tool for adaptation and survival in a warming world. atmos.earth/how-abandone...

How Abandoned Buildings Can Make Communities More Climate-Resilient | Atmos

Across the Global South, a new generation of designers is reimagining architectural failure as a tool for adaptation and survival.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 25

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future. atmos.earth/why-one-geol...

Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks | Atmos

Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 24

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Co-producers of David Attenborough’s latest film spearheaded a program that equips ocean towns with tools for creating and sustaining their own national parks at sea. atmos.earth/how-coastal-...

How Coastal Communities Are Becoming the Greatest Guardians of the Sea | Atmos

Co-producers of David Attenborough’s latest film spearheaded a program to help ocean towns create their own national parks at sea.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 23

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In this week's The Overview newsletter, a weekly meditation on nature from Editor-in-Chief Willow Defebaugh, she contemplates the sun. atmos.earth/armed-with-h...

Armed With Hope, We Will Rise Like the Sun | Atmos

In the vast darkness of the universe, the sun is our greatest proof that light—and life—persists.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 23

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : The evolutionary ancestors of house cats evolved in the desert, but that doesn’t make them immune to heat waves. atmos.earth/the-surprisi...

The Surprising Connection Between Feral Cats and Extreme Heat | Atmos

The evolutionary ancestors of house cats evolved in the desert, but that doesn’t make them immune to heat waves.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 20

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : From climate grief to political resistance, the rise of modern magic reflects a broader shift in how people relate to power and land. atmos.earth/in-a-burning...

In a Burning World, Witchcraft Is on the Rise | Atmos

From climate grief to political resistance, the rise of modern magic reflects a broader shift in how people relate to power and land.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 18

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Whatever form they take, the bits of the natural world we collect and carry with us connect us back to the landscapes we call home. atmos.earth/wild-relics/

Wild Relics: How Shells, Stones, and Bones Carry Stories of Home | Atmos

Whatever form they take, the bits of the natural world we collect and carry with us connect us back to the landscapes we call home.

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Aren’t researchers supposed to be perfectly objective, unemotional, and neutral about the world we study? I can’t be. I need to declare a conflict of interest regarding Earth:

Everyone I love lives here."

In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:

The Emotional Whiplash of a Climate Scientist | Atmos

Dr. Kate Marvel explores the grief, anger, wonder, and love she feels studying climate change in an excerpt from her new book, Human Nature.

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · Jun 17

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found deep-sea spiders that consume methane.

These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live.

Photos: Shana Goffredi

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fifty countries have ratified the High Seas Treaty, which would protect 30% of the world's oceans.

The treaty will only become legally binding after 60 countries join. Major nations including the U.S., U.K., and China have yet to do so.

We cannot afford to keep waiting to protect our oceans.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 17

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : Dr. Kate Marvel explores the grief, anger, wonder, and love she feels studying climate change in an excerpt from her new book, Human Nature. atmos.earth/the-emotiona...

The Emotional Whiplash of a Climate Scientist | Atmos

Dr. Kate Marvel explores the grief, anger, wonder, and love she feels studying climate change in an excerpt from her new book, Human Nature.

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Karen Gray is fermenting @karengray.bsky.social · Jun 16

In @atmosmag.bsky.social : In an excerpt from her new book, Wonderment, writer Amber C. Snider outlines six ways to tune into the emotional and spiritual power of water this Ocean Month. 🌊 atmos.earth/lessons-from...

Lessons from Yemaya About The Healing Power of Water | Atmos

In an excerpt from her new book, Wonderment, writer Amber C. Snider outlines six ways to tune into the spiritual power of water.

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · Jun 13

The damage done to ecosystems by deep sea mining might be irreversible.

Deep-sea mineral extraction could damage biodiversity up to 25 times more than land mining, and restoration could cost twice as much as extraction, according to one report. Read more here:

Trump’s Rush to Mine Earth’s Final Frontier | Atmos

Metals accrued over the seafloor over millions of years. The damage caused by mining them could be irreversible.

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