Craig Welch

Watching LAFC lose to Vancouver after seeing @soundersfc.com go down earlier this month in shootouts…

Seems like some @mls.bsky.social stars might want to spend the offseason dialing in their penalty kicks.

The number of high-pressure
PK misses from great players is rather stunning ..

Mount Rainier is not ready to erupt: Earthquake experts debunk report of increased seismic activity Scientists at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network might blow their stacks over having to respond to a rumor about increased tremor activity at the Washington state volcano.

Despite what you may have heard, Mount Rainier is NOT about to blow and smother 3.3 million people in ash—not this holiday season, at least.

GeekWire's @kurt-slosh.bsky.social blows the lid on the Daily Mail's junk science (and garbage journalism).

www.geekwire.com/2025/mount-r...

On the way to a 6 am ferry two years ago today. I sure do love this city.

Two photos. Top one shows a very grey, cloudy Seattle skyline, with this caption: “What America Thinks Seattle Looks Like Every Day.” Below it is the exact same photo, with this caption: “What Seattle Actually Looks Like.”

It’s that time of year, again.

Went on a long run in a local park yesterday. Rained so much and wind blew so hard, I’d swear it was 20 degrees colder by the time I finished. I know I sure was.

Pictures of ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) in Alaska, From Wildlife to Scenery, Now Threatened by Oil Drilling President Trump signed a tax bill Friday that includes a provision to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to significant oil drilling for the first time. Here's what's at stake.

Trump now says he's opening the #ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge to oil drilling. In the past, new presidents have reversed course before any damage is done. It's not clear that will happen this time. Here's a stunning look at the stakes w/text by me from 2021 www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/...

As the father of a teenager trying to navigate social media and AI and everything else, just popping up to say:

We should be teaching news literacy in middle school. And we should have started at least a decade ago.

Nearly 1 million species require coral reefs to survive, so such loss—if unaddressed—will reverberate in ways we can't yet even imagine.

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

NEW: More than 150 top researchers from 23 countries now, for the first time, say coral reefs, which half a *billion* people rely on for food, have reached a point beyond which recovery is irreversible—unless we halt greenhouse gas emissions AND cool the planet. global-tipping-points.org

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

Journalism, he said, is how we know what's happening in troubled lands. "These extraordinary eyewitness accounts are the culmination of the daily efforts of countless people who work to ensure that information isn't manipulated for ends contrary to truth and human dignity“
apnews.com/article/pope...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

So sorry I missed this headline a few days ago. So happy to see it now. (h/t @wudan.bsky.social)

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

3/3 This one, instead, was groundbreaking, providing real depth, scale and emotional heft to a global problem that had, until then, largely been reported in dribs and drabs. (Even Republicans held Senate hearings in response.) Great explanatory journalism. drive.google.com/file/d/1wLrV...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

2/3 a special shoutout goes to colleagues Laura Parker and Rob Kunzig, whose painstaking reporting, writing and editing produced an incredible story that made the issue one for the ages. Great covers are meaningless if the story inside is unspectacular. Or wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

🧵 The @nytimes.com just named this issue of National Geographic the 18th most influential magazine cover of all time. Photo editor Vaughn Wallace, artist Jorge Gamboa and cover creator Emmet Smith deserve all the praise they've received for this arresting design. BUT .... 1/3

@biographic.bsky.social publishes so much of my favorite nature writing, from the epic story behind sea star wasting disease by @craigwelch.bsky.social to creepy, beautiful bites like "Mom on the Menu" by @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social
I'm grateful that I'm able to donate!

Thank you!

Nothing quite like receiving documents from a public records request to make a bad week just a little bit better.

The kid is back in school. We all adjust in our own way.

💯💯

I agree. We’re all so angry all the time. Feels like we relish the chance to get righteous on someone, w/no thought of scale. Kind of depressing.

Read this. You won’t regret it.

I got a kidney transplant. Then I met my anonymous donor Altruistic kidney donations — when somebody gifts an organ to a stranger — are rare. This is the story of one that brought two local families together.

Wow! After years on the transplant list, my friend woke up in the hospital w/a new kidney. Only then did he learn his life had been saved by a stranger—not as part of a larger organ swap, but because a generous soul knew she could get by w/just one. So they met www.seattletimes.com/life/by-dona...

I got a kidney transplant. Then I met my anonymous donor Altruistic kidney donations — when somebody gifts an organ to a stranger — are rare. This is the story of one that brought two local families together.

Please read this beautiful story by my friend and former editor at @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social. It will restore your faith in humanity. Some people are just amazing. www.seattletimes.com/life/by-dona...

Aw, thank you so much! I really appreciate you reading .... and sharing.

Pressed for Time: The looming challenge small-town newspapers are facing The last couple of decades have been tough on newspapers. Kansas has lost about 50 publications in the past 20 years. Rural news outlets also face another problem: Owners of many small, family-run new...

"So Odell waits. And while she waits, she produces a paper every week for nearly 3,000 subscribers. Some of those papers still get delivered by paperboys on bikes."

This is such a lovely tribute and so heartbreaking.

I knew Meredith ages ago. Such fortitude. Go Mer!
www.kmuw.org/the-range/20...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Appears the feds did an immigration sweep (arrested two) while firefighters were battling a wildfire in my state.

The previous administration had strict limits on law enforcement during natural disasters. @isabellabreda.bsky.social @conradswanson.bsky.social

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Long-lost sailback shark rediscovered after more than 50 years The rare sailback houndshark, which has an unusually large dorsal fin, was first described by scientists in 1973. That was the last record of its existence, until now

Long-lost sailback shark rediscovered after more than 50 years | New Scientist

Don’t like this one bit. I mean, I don’t even know you, man!

Been battling nagging injuries since January but finally pulled off my first Cascades trail run for the year. I’ve lost several steps—we were not fast. But we ran for 3+ hours and got back to the car knowing we could have gone longer and higher. So grateful to be back #running in the mountains.

This is really quite something.

As if we needed another way of spreading misinformation.

(Ken is a climate scientist I’ve interviewed many times.)