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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 6d

This is a great read by @zteirstein.bsky.social.

Living in Arizona, Valley Fever is scary! This piece breaks down the threat perfectly, how climate is turbocharging it, and the challenges to protect the public under an administration attacking public health.

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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies

What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much, Jess! <3

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22d

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S.

A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face nationwide.

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · Aug 18

❤️ data (and amazing work by @zteirstein.bsky.social ‪
@compatibilism.bsky.social and Jesse Nichols)

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A look at the growing ‘disaster economy’ turning crisis into cash

Disasters are big business. These charts show just how big.

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · Aug 13

This latest story builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by @vox.com, @grist.org and @19thnews.org that examines how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth. Explore the full series here: www.vox.com/climate/3515...

Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis

How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · Aug 13

Climate change reshapes reproductive health — from conception to birth.

Now, in a new collab with our friends at @grist.org, new data show how heat, poor air and floods are rewriting the earliest stages of life.

@zteirstein.bsky.social at @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4578...

The health risks from climate change that almost no one talks about

Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life.

www.vox.com

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Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social · Aug 12

With @zteirstein.bsky.social and Jesse Nichols for @grist.org, here’s a chart-heavy look at some of the dynamics underlying the business of disaster: grist.org/business/a-l...

A look at the growing ‘disaster economy’ turning crisis into cash

Disasters are big business. These charts show just how big.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Jul 23

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the U.N. and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

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Tristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · Jul 18

In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. But Indigenous leaders, water protectors, activists, and court records agree: Greenpeace played a bit part in the Standing Rock movement, at best. grist.org/project/indi...

Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Jul 11

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

www.nytimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Jul 12

A 15-yo is now caring for his little brothers bc ICE snatched their mom. And another family that the local Santa Barbara paper found, pretty much same thing. Think how many stories aren’t being told www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids

"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.

www.independent.com

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · Jul 9

A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood helped stave off authorities.

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When ICE Came Up Empty

A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood helped stave off authorities.

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · Jul 9

The conversation around who should shoulder the blame for what in Texas overlooks the larger context: Trump has eliminated pretty much all disaster preparedness funding the federal government offers. Including the resilience program HE established.

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This Texas county asked for disaster resilience help. The flood came first.

The Trump administration is making it harder for places like Kerr County to get ready for disasters.

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wind and solar projects that start construction before July 2026 or are placed in service by 2027 would be able to take advantage of existing tax credits.

Under the IRA, those credits were set to continue in some form until the country achieved its climate goals.

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Senate Republicans just voted to dismantle America's only climate plan

Critics are calling it "the most anti-environmental bill of all time."

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · Jun 21

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.

That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.

It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction. The proposal is unlikely to generate much revenue for the government; there is almost no private-sector interest in the mail trucks, and used EV charging equipment — built specifically for the Postal Service and already installed in postal facilities — generally cannot be resold.

“The funds realized by auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would be negligible. Much of infrastructure is literally buried under parking lots, and there is no market for used charging equipment,” Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s vice president for government relations and public policy, wrote to senators this month.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · May 29

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 29

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · May 29

How herring lost their memory (over-fishing of older individuals) 🐟🚫🧠

@judeisabella.bsky.social @iainmckechnie.bsky.social

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How These Fish Lost Their Memory

The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · May 27

Would be huge for home buyers

Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · May 27

Florida is dangerously close to adopting a flood disclosure law that would require landlords, condo developers and manufactured home park owners to disclose pat flood damage to new tenants: www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-n...

Florida landlords may soon be required to disclose flood risk

A recently passed bill would require Florida landlords to disclose flooding risks before renters sign a lease for a home or apartment.

www.abcactionnews.com

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · May 27

Great story on vibrio bacteria from @theadvocatebr.bsky.social that will certainly save lives if widely read. No mention, however, of the fact that rising temperatures are fueling the spread of flesh-eating bacteria.

www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Two Louisiana anglers live to tell their stories about flesh-eating bacteria in coastal waters

"I was told, ‘Your leg or your life.’ I chose life.”

www.theadvocate.com

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Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social · May 23

It is hard to keep up with everything going on these days, but @zteirstein.bsky.social for @grist.org on the House IRA repeal vote is some of the most clearheaded political analysis I’ve seen. Read to understand more about the moment in which we’ve found ourselves: grist.org/politics/hou...

Moderate Republicans defended Biden's climate law — then voted to repeal it

House lawmakers just voted along party lines to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Brad Plumer @bradplumer.bsky.social · May 22

Latest House GOP bill has faster phaseout of IRA clean electricity credits—need to start building wind/solar/battery/geothermal before 60 days after law passes and finish by end 2028, or no credit.

Nuclear gets an exception—a new reactor can get the credit if it starts construction by end 2028.

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NPR @npr.org · May 21

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · May 20

Excited for the WBUR festival in Boston later this month! I’ll be speaking with Harvard Medical’s @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about health in the climate era. Tickets still available!

Miriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · May 20

5/ Here's a list of all the Climate and Environment Events at the WBUR Festival

@moranwriter.bsky.social @katbagley.bsky.social @zteirstein.bsky.social

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · May 15

You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad?

Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process.

Out of sight, out of mind.

spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · May 12

Here is a rundown of exactly how the GOP proposal would change every clean energy tax credit. While it looks like a bunch of nips and tucks, it's probably more akin to a full repeal. More analysis from us to come.
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The House GOP Tax Proposal Would Effectively Kill The IRA

The Ways and Means Committee released its proposed budget language, and it’s not pretty for clean energy.

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