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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Sep 7

These are terrific!

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Sep 3

A German court ruled Apple can no longer market its Apple Watch as "CO2 neutral": esgnews.com/german-court...

Be sure to read @gregbarber.bsky.social's earlier TR deep dive into the company's climate claims here:

Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

www.technologyreview.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy book birthday to my friend @jimfruchterman.bsky.social

He has spent many years figuring out how technology can help the global majority. He distills the lessons in his new book. Details are here:
fruchterman.org

Homepage - Jim Fruchterman, Tech for Good Champion

Jim Fruchterman is a social entrepreneur, tech-for-good field leader, public speaker, and author of the book Technology for Good (MIT Press).

fruchterman.org

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just an astonishing image

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

Smiles and Clasped Hands as Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity

www.nytimes.com

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health.
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

Will the C.D.C. Survive?

www.nytimes.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry

www.nytimes.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chinese solar exports to African countries are surging.

With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries

www.nytimes.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Deadly Risks of Reporting in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...

The Deadly Risks of Reporting in Gaza

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Aug 23

Eunice Foote conducted an experiment showing that atmospheric CO2 traps heat.

OTD in 1856, she listened to a man (John Henry of the Smithsonian) present her results to the American Acad. for the Advancement of Science.

Henry downplayed the significance of Foote’s finding.

#HistSTM #WomeninSTEM 🧪🌎

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?

www.scientificamerican.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 18

Analysts: When will oil demand peak?

Trump administration: Ssshh

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/c...

Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn’t Want to Hear It.

www.nytimes.com

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Aug 15

The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

www.nytimes.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is the caste system in America

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 15

How valuable are family connections? New working paper finds that working for a parent’s employer increases initial earnings by 24%, primarily by providing access to higher-paying firms.
matthewstaiger.github.io/matthewstaig...

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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · Aug 9

Farmworkers continue to die from heat illness. “It is the kind of thing that should be keeping legislators up at night. People are dying.”

Via @jessicagarrison.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Farmworkers keep dying from heat illness, 20 years after California vowed to protect them

Agricultural workers are toiling in the state's worst heat wave this year, amid questions about the state's commitment to ensure their safety.

www.latimes.com

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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Jul 30

Here you go:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Trump’s E.U. Trade Deal Comes With Impossible Energy Promises

www.nytimes.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very much worth reading 👇🏽

Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Jul 28

Climate nonprofits were set to expand programs to help electrify affordable housing, improve climate resilience in low-income communities and leverage private finance for solar projects. Now, they're laying off staff and playing defense amid Trump's huge budget cuts

Trump’s Billions in Climate Cuts Have Nonprofits Scrambling to Survive

From clean energy and research to advocacy, nonprofit groups are struggling as federal dollars dry up. Foundations say they won’t be able to fill funding gaps.

www.bloomberg.com

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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Jul 27

EU’s von der Leyen confirmed that Europe will buy $750 billion worth of American energy over three years. She also clarified the logic behind the time frame: “during his term.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Preliminary E.U. Trade Deal Reached After Months of Tense Talks

www.nytimes.com

Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Jul 27

This explains something about today's beard boom:

"Beards emerged as legible emblems of male virility and authority just as women began demanding the vote."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...