Craig Welch

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.

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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!
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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.)

Thank you, Ben!

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

“This ecosystem is predicated on balance—we need a certain combination of species to make it function.”

Powerful @craigwelch.bsky.social story in @biographic.bsky.social on sea star epidemiology.

www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Incredible & beautifully written. @craigwelch.bsky.social phenomenal work.

Thank you!

Plight of the Bumblebees A journey into the wild and not-so-wild world of bumblebees and the unintended consequences of domestication.

The enchantment of bumblebees illuminated beautifully by @judeisabella.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/plight-of-th...

Congratulations to Dr. Alyssa Gehman @rhizalyssa.bsky.social at @hakai.org for her work on solving this mystery!

By far the best coverage of this remarkable tale of the scientific process and the search for what causes sea star wasting disease

Thank you so much!!

Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the *billions* from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.

No one knew why.

So we tagged along while scientists unraveled the mystery.

Now can we save them?

Thanks for the share, @longreads.com!

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place."

@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...