Sara Sneath

A really nice analysis of the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
Lots of excellent data-packed figures.

Thank you so much!

Interesting, Zan! Do you have an example we can look into?

Cool opportunity for college students! And it's paid 🤑

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Wormly🪱,
Sara

Lukewarmly,
Sara

The dangers facing local reporters who cover extremism. The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.

www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Independent’ expert who helped shape global vaping debate was paid thousands by Juul A Greek physician who has extensively studied nicotine was paid by Juul to lobby against Israeli vaping regulations. He didn’t disclose the payment in his research.

An influential Greek cardiologist who has helped shaped the global debate on vaping was paid thousands of euros from ecig giant Juul via an offshore company he co-owns, myself, @ebersi.bsky.social and @stephanehorel.bsky.social can reveal www.theexamination.org/articles/juu...

The Most Extreme Year for Atlantic Hurricanes in Two Decades The Atlantic basin hasn’t seen this many Category 5 storms since the year Katrina hit.

That combination of high winds and creeping progress makes Melissa both unusual and unusually dangerous. Over the next day or so, the storm is on track to hammer Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and parts of the Bahamas with catastrophic flash flooding, destructive winds, and damaging waves.

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?

It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what?

@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding

Now Arizona has also said "no," and Vanderbilt has indicated it will do the same. That leaves just the University of Texas, which has been placed under the control of the Texas GOP and is going through what Greg Abbott calls an "ideological test" for conformity with Texas GOP ideology.

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships.

Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

Excel turned gene names into dates in one-fifth of human gene papers, but still won't auto-wrap text. Yet another reason journalists should learn to code. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27552985/

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the employees said."

Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

Nearly a dozen journalists who spoke with Prism described pushback from editors & managers surrounding coverage that centered or mentioned Palestinians. They were sidelined or harassed, while U.S. media adopted a pro-Israel bias that muzzled the truth.
prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’

One of our fact checkers, @sarasneath.bsky.social, has done killer reporting on fossil fuel companies funding university research.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.desmog.com/2024/12/19/m... 8/

SLAPP’d The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD)

drilled.media/investigatio...