Somini Sengupta

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Rob Jetten looks on course to be the next Dutch prime minister.

Quick reminder that he was once the nation's climate and energy minister:

"I work every day to put the Netherlands on course towards a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest."

Quite the contrast with Geert Wilders...

2X increase in the most extreme hurrucanes!
Looking at every Cat 4 & 5 in the Atlantic since 1980 (reliable records/ data gathering) I broke the record into 2 equal parts.
1980-2002 and 2003-2025
The most recent period has more than double the number of most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic!…
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As China and U.S. Split Over Energy, Korea Is Stuck in the Middle

Donald Trump is meeting Xi Jinping in South Korea.

There's a lot at stake for a lot of countries.

Not least the host country -- South Korea.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.

This is so very, very bad. And yes, climate change plays a role. bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/10/meli...

Vegan Menu for Hosting Prince Leaves a Chef in the Amazon Fuming

“It was a lack of respect,” he added, “for local cuisine, for our culinary tradition.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments A South African court has nullified the environmental authorization for state-owned electricity utility Eskom’s proposed 3,000-megawatt gas-fired power plant. The court cited multiple reasons for its…

A South African court has nullified the environmental authorization for state-owned electricity utility Eskom’s proposed 3,000-megawatt gas-fired power plant, citing multiple reasons, including failure to adequately consult local residents and consider the full impact on climate change.

Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

“As the wealthy continue to consume, that’s masking more and more insecurity and instability in the economy under the hood.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

The Slow Death of the New York City Public Bench

Smart look at public space by @annakode.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...

The US was supported by Russia, Saudi Arabia and other big oil and gas producers

U.S. Pressures Countries to Delay Fees to Clean Up Ship Pollution

Global shipping was ready to start paying a fee to clean up its climate pollution.

Then the Trump administration brought a battering ram of trade and visa threats on countries that supported it.

The measure was delayed today. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c...

Trump’s Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for a Vast Wilderness in Brazil

What does the US-China trade row have to do with deforestation in Brazil? (Hint: pig farms)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/c...

These are terrific!

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.

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:

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).

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

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

Just an astonishing image

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

Will the C.D.C. Survive?

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...

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

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

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

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...

The Deadly Risks of Reporting in Gaza

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

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?

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 🧪🌎

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

Analysts: When will oil demand peak?

Trump administration: Ssshh

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

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

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...

This is the caste system in America

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Very much worth reading 👇🏽

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

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...