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Twilight Greenaway

@twyspy.bsky.social

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Journalist/editor focused on climate, equity, agriculture, & the natural world. Currently: UC Berkeley Journalism's Climate Equity Reporting Project @stateofchange.bsky.social, The Window https://windowofopportunity.substack.com/ Signal: climatewriter.19

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our national parks have been hit hard by climate change and they're also home to a lot of critical #climate mitigation work. I wrote about what's at stake for these important lands under the Trump Administration for @gristnews.bsky.social

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Trump takes aim at the people who protect national parks from climate change

After mass firings and rehiring, thousands of federal employees are bracing for deeper cuts — just as wildfires and floods threaten national parks.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 4d

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Kate Anderson @agroeco.bsky.social · 21h

The biggest corn harvest in U.S. history should be good news—but it’s not. In this blog, I crunched the numbers on how much overproduction is bankrupting farmers, burdening taxpayers, and battering the environment.

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Why Planting Too Much Corn Hurts Farmers—and the Environment

US agriculture encourages farmers to plant too much corn, which drives prices down and increases pollution that harms our water and climate.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 1d

Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley work in intense heat 8 months a year. Air conditioning is essential to their recovery at the end of each day. But it's expensive!

I visited on a sweltering day to document an effort to bring costs down for one family. 🌞
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Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy - Inside Climate News

California allocates $20 million a year for energy efficiency upgrades for low-income homeowners, and supporters of the farmworkers program want $10 million added.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22h

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 1d

Retirement in America today means gambling on disaster as more and more Americans are being forced to wipe out what little savings they have. I spoke with Altadena fire victims who now think they'll never have the chance to stop working. inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity."

It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world.
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 1d

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy - Inside Climate News

California allocates $20 million a year for energy efficiency upgrades for low-income homeowners, and supporters of the farmworkers program want $10 million added.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 6d

Yes.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7d

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

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AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It

AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

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InsideEVs @insideevs.com · 7d

The two American automakers are working with dealers to extend the $7,500 EV tax credit a bit longer—for a few months more, anyway. Here's what car shoppers need to know.

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General Motors And Ford Found A Way To Keep The EV Lease Credit Alive

For a few months more, anyway. The two American automakers are working with dealers to extend the $7,500 EV tax credit a bit longer.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 7d

“My work is like an empty can,” Hsieh said, “and the audience can fit inside their own life experience.”
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The Artist Who Lived in a Cage For a Year

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 8d

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny .... When we give in, we join the sales force."
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

Wyoming coal could be shipped to Asia via Oakland by 2028. h/t @jfern.bsky.social cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/18/c...

California Supreme Court Clears Path For Wyoming Coal Exports Through Oakland Port

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively ended a decade-long legal battle over shipping coal out of the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal.…

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 10d

#COP30 urged to link climate justice with reparations for historical crimes - Al Jazeera English aje.io/gqao7b

COP30 urged to link climate justice with reparations for historical crimes

Letter urges UN climate meeting in Brazil to consider costs of climate crisis, colonialism, slavery.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15d

Are you helping your kids with their homework? Teaching them how to save for retirement? Ok.

But are you preparing them for this👇, the result of our current emissions trajectory?

The Catastrophic Outcome of 3°C But is 3°C really a win? What will this amount of heating mean for peo-
ple in the United States? How alarmed, exactly, should Americans be? Well, 3°C of global heating would likely mean that for around three months of the year, the entire East Coast all the way to Maine, the Midwest to the Great Plains, and half of California would be so hot that being outdoors would put you at risk of death. Southern California, the Southwest, the Deep South, and Florida would be this deadly hot for nearly half the year.? And that's just the back- ground heat. The effects of this heat in the climate system —what are blandly known as the "impacts" of climate change should also be considered. And what the extreme weather already emerging across the globe, as well as the latest research, suggests is something quite frightening: the way our climate system is responding even to low levels of warming indicates that a 3°C world might look very much like the 4°C or s°C world it had seemed like we had avoided. This is not to say that scientists have failed to predict what is happening in some way-their projections of how much the planet will warm at rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been entirely

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16d

It's LIVE CAM TIME. Fat bear week is upon us!

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The live cam sets have a "meditation" highlights reel and wow do they know their audience.

Bear Cam - live from Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park | Explore.org

Watch LIVE as hundreds of Alaskan Brown Bears descend on a mile-long stretch of the Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome."

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Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country

Thousands of workers and students across Italy have joined a general strike and demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 15d

"Huge sums continue to be spent to delude Americans into thinking that transit will soon be obsolete."

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 18d

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

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Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 18d

I understand why editors prefer to avoid using pseudonyms for sources, but when (multiple) whole categories of people are in legitimate danger, maybe its time to reconsider that policy so that said endangered people's stories can still be told.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20d

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 19d

It's still hard to truly wrap our brains around this new, more chaotic weather system.
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The system that moves water around the planet is increasingly ‘erratic and extreme’ with big consequences for economies and society, new report finds | CNN

The world is experiencing wild swings between drought and deluge, and it spells big trouble for economic and social stability, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21d

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks to Maison Tran, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, and @capitalandmain.bsky.social for making this story possible.

Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 21d

Inland Empire communities face dangerous levels of shipping industry pollution — the same emissions warming the planet. After a rule that would have protected residents near rail yards fell apart under Trump's EPA, they're hoping the state takes the lead.

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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 22d

"Our bodies weren’t designed for a calorie onslaught, in the same way a house built for moderate weather isn’t designed for a heat wave."
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Opinion | It’s Not You. It’s the Food.