Kea Krause

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Tiny Island, Big Dreams A fishing cooperative on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra is redefining conservation and 'making good things happen.'

There is a tiny island off the coast of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico, with a power-house fisherman's association. This was my favorite story to write all year and I hope you will read and get inspired! My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/tiny-island-...

Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says

Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid.

It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.

If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

Letting in the Light

Spent the summer in the woods writing this feature for @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Magazine about some of Maine’s oldest trees and how to care for a forest over time. Just your neighborhood ocean gal lost in the trees:

www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...

Fungi Are Becoming Invaluable First Responders in Eco-Crises When environmental disasters occur, live fungi are helping to quickly clean up everything from oil spills to toxic runoff.

Took a break from my fisheries beat to write about mycoremediation and specifically fungi that are first responders to wild fire burn areas. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.

"There are only seven full-time book critics left in the United States...The rest of us are freelancers—and according to the Freelance Solidarity Project, nearly one-third of freelance book critics make less than the federal minimum wage for their reviews." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Windy Work Some of the worst weather in the world is offering up some of the most innovative solutions to weather technology

I got to do my favorite thing ever--talk about the weather--in my latest for @sierraclub.org:
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/windy...

Generating the Braided Nature Essay — Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance A 5-Week Nonfiction Workshop

I’m thrilled to be teaching a workshop this fall over at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance! Things are bad bad bad right now, I know, but perhaps a slow down and some time spent marveling and writing about the natural world with me is a good antidote:
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...

How Fresh Fish From Monterey Bay Reaches School Lunch Trays With Sea-to-School programs, the cafeteria is an extension of the classroom, where kids can learn to love sustainable local seafood.

It seems so simple but getting locally caught fish into school lunch rooms direct from the fishers both nourishes children and helps to fix local supply chains. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...

Motherfucking wind farms…

The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

ICYMI: I wrote about birth control, plants and women's traditional medicine for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Come for the crazy world of birth control over the past 5,000 years and stay for my simmering rage!
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

Earlier this year I traveled to Australia to report on a unique, localized geoengineering effort: Scientists are investigating whether they can help save the Great Barrier Reef by changing the weather, generating fog and brightening clouds
@nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...

The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

beautiful, elegant, wise new essay from @keakrause.bsky.social, we're so lucky orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

Once upon a time, I wrote a piece for @orionmagazine.bsky.social about seed saving and the end of the world, a feeling which I once hoped would be a passing phase:

Can't not wait to get this book in my hot little hands!!

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue: Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine) Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky) Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska) Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina) Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas) Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota) Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas) Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia) Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana) Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi) Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee) Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama) Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma) Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska) Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota) Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington) Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois) Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island) Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire) Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon) Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware) Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii) Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin) Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut) Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland) Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico) Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan) Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York) Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

FOUR TIMES

GO SEE LAURA!!!

Future-Stealers. Every last one of them.

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

This is basically the meteorologist’s version of Cronkite telling the nation that the US was cooked in Vietnam. Give it a watch.

Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.

This is wild and wonderful and humbling and all the things