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CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

**not traditionally peer reviewed**

I am a journalist and I like being accurate: they said they did a pre-publication peer review and were keeping it anonymous for a post-publication peer review. There are limited details and lots of questions on both

"The HHS report diverged from scientific standards leading many professionals to question the accuracy and bias of it's findings. For example, the authors were not listed."

But when it comes up to forms of bias and quality that can be easily interpreted by readers because they are so non-technical I think we should always be straight up:

On the technical side, I think erring on the side of explaining quality of research (and what it means and it's limitations) is generally good (which is why I don't shy away from reporting on GAC's low evidence quality and how that is not that scandalous!) but impossible in a short story.

Explaining the quality of research is a weak spot for science/health journalism, IMO. For good reason, the technical terms regarding bias and quality have different meanings with different stakes than the colloquial terms commonly understood by readers.

As science journalists we can't just say two reports have different conclusions and leave it at that--we have to explain what goes into reports, potential for bias, etc.

I'm not trying to shade an otherwise good/imp article and journalist. Just an example of a larger trend I see a lot.

Same goes when comparing it to other research. The only difference pointed out between the Utah Report and the HHS report are the conclusions. But the quality of the Utah report matters too (multiple years, multiple named authors, 1,000 pages, etc.)

I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear:

If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!

Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS When people think of Madagascar, the island nation off Africa’s east coast and setting of that silly 2005 animated film from DreamWorks, we tend to picture abundance: lemurs leaping through lush forests, chameleons blending into trees, coral reefs teeming with life. But that’s just not the reality anymore. Nearly all lemur species are now threatened with extinction, reef ecosystems are collapsing, and forests are shrinking at alarming rates. I’m Paige Vega, climate editor at Vox, where we’ve been digging into one of the biggest stories shaping our planet’s future: how the loss of biodiversity is unfolding in real time, even in places people think of as wild and untouched. In an ambitious new project led by Vox senior environmental correspondent Benji Jones, we explore what biodiversity loss looks like in a place that’s synonymous with wildlife—and what it will take to turn things around. Because in Madagascar, saving nature isn’t just about protecting animals, it’s about giving people a way to live.

Missed Sunday's newsletter? It was all about @vox.com's investigation into biodiversity loss in Madagascar.

Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

Jamaica cowers as Category 5 Melissa bears down, supercharged by warming seas That climate change is making this and other major hurricanes far more dangerous is "undeniable."

“When you get a storm like this that is approaching the higher echelons of what we have observed, it’s harrowing," one scientist told @mrmattsimon.bsky.social. And rapid intensification caused by warm water makes a storm like this incredibly more dangerous. Story via @grist.org / @climatedesk.org

I’m currently at the entrance to Coast Guard Island where National Guard troops and ICE agents are being housed prior to their deployment on the Bay Area. Couple hundred people are here blocking access in and out. Lots of faith leaders here who are praying at the edge of the property line.

This is why I am going to an LIS grad program not J school. I think we sometimes get so caught up in the news cycle that we forget the long-term implications of our work. The stories that land on front-pages, that are saved to an archive, etc. shape how history will be told about this moment in time

It should genuinely concern more journalists that a single non-profit is doing the brunt of our archival work.

I love the Internet Archive but does this profession not feel any ethical obligation to make stronger publicly available archives of our work?

Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth Madagascar is reeling from political unrest. But there’s another problem that no one’s talking about.

Generally when I stage @climatedesk.org stories for republication, my read of them is pretty cursory

But I really took my time reading this excellent featured by @benjij.bsky.social in @vox.com today.

Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS Hello! I’m Maria Gallucci, a senior reporter at Canary Media, the newest member of the Climate Desk collaboration. Canary Media is a nonprofit newsroom covering the clean energy transition, and this week I’ve got a story on the hollowing-out of a little-known federal office that was helping make that transition happen. Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions, Zahava Urecki at the Bipartisan Policy Center told me. Emerging technologies that could unlock major environmental and climate benefits need serious capital to scale up and prove themselves, and investors are often unwilling to shoulder those financial risks alone. That’s where the OCED comes in. During the Biden administration, Congress gave the office about $27 billion to back projects that could drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from heavy industries such as steel manufacturing—including at a plant in JD Vance’s hometown—along with more controversial initiatives like hubs for hydrogen production and direct air capture. These subsidies, contingent on private investment, act as a force multiplier such that “a relatively small investment from taxpayers,” notes one expert, is expected to yield “an enormous benefit.”

Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions. So what did the Trump Administration do?

Find out in our latest newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

"He's orange!!!"

One of my favorite parts of journalism is you just get to ask everyday people what they think about something and share that.

Happy to be the video guy behind stitching these responses my colleagues gathered ⬇️

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa. The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.

Great context for today's #NoKings protests from the inimitable @timothypmurphy.bsky.social. cc @motherjones.com

Trump’s people are calling this a hate rally. Here’s a live shot from the hate rally.

I'll be editing videos coming in from our reporters on the ground. Let me know if you see anything interesting!

Full thread ⬇️

YouTube video by Mother Jones This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape.

In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

Huge shout out to @peter-berger.bsky.social for producing and editing this incredible mini-documentary!

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS We’ve long known that meat is bad news for the environment, responsible for everything from land loss and carbon emissions to massive, noxious lagoons of pig shit. And eating too much of it isn’t great for you—or anybody. Last week, Climate Desk partners covered the unveiling of a proposed “planetary health diet” whose creators say it could curb food-related emissions by half and prevent 15 million premature deaths annually. Big Agriculture, of course, is guarding its turf at all costs. The Guardian reports that nearly 60 percent of EU Parliament members voted this week in favor of the industry’s demand to reserve words like “steak” and “sausage” for animal products rather than plant-based alternatives. While the measure passed, it would still need to be approved by the majority of member states. “Veggie burgers, seitan schnitzel, and tofu sausage do not confuse consumers, only right-wing politicians,” one critic quipped.

Missed Sunday's weekly newsletter? Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Chart: In a first, world gets more power from renewables than coal The world is still burning through enormous amounts of coal, but the energy source is stagnating as renewables — and solar in particular — soar.

Renewables generated more power than coal globally in the first half of 2025 — a major milestone on clean energy's path to displacing fossil fuels.