Julian A Nowogrodzki

A text excerpt reads: The study also finds that emissions from transportation are a small fraction of overall livestock emissions, as has been shown in other research. For consumers eager to make a dent in their own climate emissions from what they eat, that means that eating locally, while appealing, does not in fact have much impact on emissions. “Food miles and related emissions are largely a myth,” Goldstein writes to Sentient. “Emissions from transporting food account for around 10% of total emissions related to producing and distributing food products to retail.” By and large, he adds, “most emissions occur during production, especially in the case of meat which requires lots of feed and generates lots of on-site emissions” that come mainly from enteric fermentation, primarily cattle burps, and the manure lagoons used to hold animals’ urine and feces.

The transportation piece is super interesting, too, and I probably didn't do it justice with the release. Fortunately, though, Sophie Kevany did an excellent job for @sentientmedia.org. sentientmedia.org/meat-consump...

In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.

As an AZ native, I've known this for years. And still. The madness never ceases to shock
"In Arizona, 76 percent of water use goes toward agriculture. Mature alfalfa (hay) is largely used to feed cattle, and in Arizona, alfalfa is a commonly planted thirsty crop."
sentientmedia.org/arizona-dese...

In Tracking Avian Flu, Data Privacy Stymies Researchers Specific data about H5N1 outbreaks on farms has generally been deemed confidential by state and federal officials.

Glad to see this article about scientists struggling to obtain field-level avian flu data, which the U.S. government collects from farms, republished in @undark.org
It's one of the reasons why avian flu surveillance remains very limited

undark.org/2025/09/16/a...

YouTube video by Sentient In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm

So, @revealnews.org / @motherjones.com first broke the story of foreign governments setting up massive farms in rural Arizona to suck up unregulated groundwater for export. (Also google "The Grab.") Independent newsroom @sentientmedia.org just re-upped the story, including this compelling video.

The Study Big Meat Tried to Bury — and Why It Matters Again When a sweeping scientific study called for eating less meat, the meat industry launched a full-scale attack. And we could be in for a repeat.

Every time science says to eat less meat, Big Meat loses its mind

sentientmedia.org/the-study-bi...

Why are Saudi Arabian cattle eating alfalfa grown in the Arizona desert and then shipped around the world?

@ninaelkadi.com traveled to western Arizona to find out:

How Factory Farm Air Pollution Can Spread Dangerous Bacteria Factory farm dust can spread E. coli and could have sparked a large food poisoning outbreak in 2018, a new study shows.

Factory farm dust could be the missing link in a major food poisoning outbreak, thanks to a "crazy hole in our food safety system”

Natasha Gilbert reports: sentientmedia.org/factory-farm...

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Women face unique addiction risks tied to hormones, metabolism and brain function. Learn how sex-based research is reshaping treatment approaches in #TPhysMag: ow.ly/gXmF50X0kY2 #SABV #WomensHealthResearch #APSWomensHealth @plantnerd.bsky.social 🧪

In regards to resident concerns about a new feedlot, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment wrote that they do not have the authority to evaluate the feedlot’s impact on “living conditions” or “general issues related to ‘quality of life.’”

s/o to @plantnerd.bsky.social for amazing edits.

My pleasure!

Kansas Greenlights Mega Feedlot in “Sensitive” Water Area Despite community pushback over groundwater pollution and health risks, the 88,000-head feedlot will be one of the largest in the state.

Great investigative reporting from @ninaelkadi.com here on a massive factory farm project in Kansas.

"Nitrate levels in the groundwater below one of the existing ILS feedlots have measured as much as 6 times the EPA’s safe drinking water standard"
sentientmedia.org/kansas-green...

The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com

My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him

www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Thank you for being transparently ethical about this

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat.

For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

taps sign again

we are in a diagnostic and epistemological crisis and our media ecosystem - including supposedly fact based legacy orgs - are at the center of it.

Love, drugs and condoms: Couples with different HIV status face a new reality They're called "serodiscordant" couples. One is HIV positive, the other negative. Aid from the U.S. enabled them to obtain medicines and condoms for protection — until this year.

They're called "serodiscordant" couples. One is HIV positive, the other negative. Aid from the U.S. enabled them to obtain medicines and condoms for protection — until this year.

Doulas empower mothers in NYC, but struggle with finances and burnout In the face of a growing maternal mortality crisis, doulas are seen as a critical form of support. But the field has many barriers to entry

“A lot of doulas are starting to burn out, and we’re not the band-aid for the deficiencies in the health care system—and that’s sometimes how we’re treated,” said Anjanette Silas, a doula based in Staten Island. My latest for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/08/25/d...

Dozens of heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

“We absolutely can allocate blame, and we absolutely should” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures|Hardcover Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment—drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world.If you sometimes wis...

my new book wherein ocean creatures give you life advice is on preorder sale for members at barnes + noble today www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leaving-th...

Please follow your US State Attorney General.

US State Attorney Generals w/Bluesky accounts.

Chat @growthesky.bsky.social if you notice something incorrect or missing.

#GTS-US-State-AG

Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates In 2020, the world produced more than enough calories to feed the global population, but only half of those calories reached people’s plates due to rising meat and biofuel production

In 2020, the world produced more than enough calories to feed the global population, but only half of those calories reached people’s plates due to rising meat and biofuel production. @mjflepage.bsky.social reports for @newscientist.com:

‘People will die because of this’: How RFK Jr. drove out the CDC’s senior leaders On the same day Susan Monarez was fired, four of the agency’s top leaders quit.

New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

🔗 www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...

Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...

Some images taken by Nexar dashcams. Now, the plan is for this dashcam company to integrate with Flock, whose business is based on selling access to license plate data to law enforcement www.404media.co/flock-wants-...

‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’ Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.

"I love to tell people is that computing is a Black people’s thing"

Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.

go.nature.com/4oxew1E

The real winner of the AI boom so far? Big Cloud How Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are concentrating even more power in the age of AI.

Nvidia gets the spotlight, but *two* major groups are selling shovels in the AI gold rush, who profit whether or not AI products pan out: Chipmakers and Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft + Amazon.

A new study by @davidthewid.bsky.social + Nathan Kim shows how the AI boom is fueling Big Cloud's land grab:

I've also been thinking of Lysenko recently, and the history lesson of how pseudoscience in service of a totalitarian regime destroyed tens of millions of lives. Rasmussen makes that comparison sharper by holding Lysenko's pseudoscientific journey up to Bhattacharya's.

Budget brainwaves: low-cost system collects brain data outside the lab Neuroscience initiative in India and Tanzania amasses a trove of high-quality EEG recordings from diverse populations.

This is so cool. 24 citizen scientists collected brainwave data on ~8,000 people that's just as good as data collected by expensive lab setups and only cost $50 per participant www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why do ageing rates vary by country? Massive study says politics play a part Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated ageing — but education seems to slow the process.

How is the erosion of democracy linked to premature aging? A new global study looks at 40 countries across 4 continents

@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...